After Idaho's Strict Abortion Ban, OB-GYNs Stage a Quick Exodus
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Source: Kaiser Health News
SANDPOINT, Idaho — At a brewery in this northern Idaho city, hundreds of people recently held a wake of sorts to mourn the closure of Sandpoint’s only labor and delivery ward, collateral damage from the state’s Republican-led effort to criminalize nearly all abortions.
Jen Quintano, the event’s organizer and a Sandpoint resident who runs a tree service, called to the crowd, packed shoulder to shoulder as children ran underfoot, “Raise your hand if you were born at Bonner General! Raise your hand if you gave birth at Bonner General!” Nearly everyone raised their hand.
Later this month, the hospital, founded in 1949 near the shores of Lake Pend Oreille, will stop providing services for expectant mothers, forcing patients across northern Idaho to travel at least an additional hour for care. In June, a second Idaho hospital, Valor Health, in the rural city of Emmett, will also halt labor and delivery services.
Those decisions came within months of Idaho’s abortion ban, one of the nation’s strictest, going into effect in August 2022. Physicians can now perform the medical procedure only to stop the death of a pregnant woman or in the case of rape or incest reported to the police.
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Setting aside little things like, y'know, wives, daughters, mothers dying in childbirth or from avoidable complications. 
Her son and daughter in law have just finished their medical residencies at the University of Washington. Her son in emergency medicine and her DIL is an OB/GYN. Both doctors were offered positions at Bonner General. They declined due to Idaho’s abortion bans. Neither of them believed they could offer women care if abortion is off the table.
OB/GYN’s will leave these states in droves. It’s obviously already happening. These fascist nutters who have passed these laws forget that women past child bearing years will also die as a result of not having doctors who specialize in women’s health care due to cancers and other diseases that will go undiagnosed. Actually those cancers affect women throughout their lives…not just post menopausal women. But hey, we’re just women. We are expendable…our only value is in giving birth…and not even then.
Do I need this?
