The U.S. Supreme Court‘s decision to overturn a woman’s right to have an abortion marks a “very dark day in healthcare” that will leave patients at risk and doctors afraid to act, leaders of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said. “It is a dark day indeed for the tens of millions of patients who have suddenly and unfairly lost access to safe, legal and evidence-based abortion care,” ACOG President Dr. Iffath Abbasi Hoskins said Friday.
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“It is dark for the thousands of clinicians who now — instead of focusing on providing healthcare to their patients — have to live with the threat of legal, civil and even professional penalties while providing healthcare for the patients when they need it most,” Hoskins said.
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ACOG leaders spoke during a media briefing just hours after the high court voted 6-3 to uphold a Mississippi law to ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The court voted 5-to-4 to overturn Roe vs. Wade, which had protected a woman’s right to undergo an abortion in the United States for five decades.