Most OB/GYNs stayed put and did not move to pro-abortion states in the years following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study.
Furthermore, states who moved to protect preborn life actually saw a greater growth in OB/GYNs than those who did not, according to the academic paper published in JAMA Network Open.
“In this cohort study of 60,085 OBGYNs, the number of OBGYNs did not significantly change across policy environments, increasing by 8.3% in states where abortion is banned, 10.5% in states where it is threatened, and 7.7% in states where it is protected after the Dobbs decision,” the academics reported.
“Although the Dobbs decision has increased physicians’ concerns about providing reproductive health care, there were no observed disproportionate changes in OBGYN practice location as of 2024,” the study concluded.
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Authors included Becky Staiger of the University of California Berkeley, and other researchers from Stanford University, the University of Pittsburgh, Hunter College, and Middlebury College.
The authors concluded “there are no major changes in the supply of OBGYNs associated with the Dobbs decision,” referencing the June 2022 Supreme Court decision which affirmed the Constitution does not contain a right for women to kill their babies in the womb.
While the pro-abortion MedPage Today called the results “surprising,” it is in fact the latest claim from the alleged experts to be “debunked.”
“As more clinicians leave those states, as more maternity care deserts happen, we will
LifeNews Note: Matt Lamb writes for The College Fix, where this column originally appeared.see poorer outcomes,” Dr. Stella Dantas told Mother Jones last May. At the time she was the incoming president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Yet, despite being a doctor, she cannot take the pulse well, as the claims of “maternity care deserts” have yet to materialize.
In 2023, the American Association of Medical Colleges reported that the Dobbs decision would lead OB/GYNs “to move or leave the field entirely,” according to “experts” it interviewed.
Dantas’ predecessor was another one of the false sirens.
“We are seeing more of this now that the Dobbs decision has forced some OB-GYNS out of restrictive states,” Dr. Verda Hicks said. “OB-GYNS experience moral injury when they are prevented from providing the expert care that they are trained to provide. This contributes to burnout too.”
The Fix has regularly debunked claims that Roe would have adverse effects on medical training and OB/GYNs.
For example, there is still no proof for the claim by Indiana University’s pro-abortion medical professor that the state’s law would harm the “quality” of residency applicants for its OB/GYN program. The Fix keeps asking Dr. Nicole Scott to back up her claim, but she continues to ignore requests for comments.
Furthermore, college students are not leaving red states because of their restrictions on the killing of preborn babies, a claim The Fix first debunked in 2022. New data this year from Axios further confirmed the experts were once again wrong.
As Assistant Editor Micaiah Bilger wrote recently:
The biggest enrollment shifts from northern to southern universities occurred in Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and Texas between 2014 and 2023, according to Axios.
The time period is significant because, within that decade, all six states began enforcing pro-life laws.
Why might the experts be wrong? Because they are pro-abortion to begin with, they probably assume everyone else thinks about killing babies in the womb as much as they do.
Little do they know that only 14 percent of OB/GYNs inject chemicals into babies to cause them to have heart attacks or rip them apart in the womb.
So while abortion is an important part of what they consider to be medicine, it is not vital to the true healthcare provided by other people, leaving the alleged experts once again sitting alone in their echo chamber.
LifeNews Note: Matt Lamb writes for The College Fix, where this column originally appeared.
