Anti-abortion doctor appointed to Texas maternal death review committee
Source: Texas Tribune
A leading anti-abortion doctor has been appointed to Texas’ maternal mortality review committee. Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OB/GYN from San Antonio, will be serving in the role designated for a community member representing a rural area.
Skop is not just any anti-abortion doctor — she is the most visible face of a small but influential national anti-abortion medical community, the first call for anyone looking for an OB/GYN to publicly defend abortion restrictions.
Skop is one of the doctors who sued to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a common abortion-inducing drug, a case that is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. She is frequently called on to testify in favor of Texas’ abortion laws, including signing a sworn affidavit saying Kate Cox — a Dallas woman who asked a judge to allow her to terminate a nonviable pregnancy — did not qualify for an abortion under the state’s medical exception.
She has testified in front of Congress, authored amicus briefs and produced medical studies, some of which have recently been retracted, in her role as vice president and director of medical affairs for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the political advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/22/texas-maternal-mortality-committee-ingrid-skop-abortion-doctor/
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