Opinion: Concerns about women’s health
By Molly Selvin, Sacramento Bee
The abortion restrictions that conservative Republicans shoehorned into Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act were just the latest volley in their ongoing, grim war on reproductive choice.
Notwithstanding the Ryan bill’s spectacular collapse, President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans could well succeed in banning abortion or further squeezing off legal access to the procedure and other family planning services. Regardless of the law, however, desperate women will still seek to terminate their pregnancies as they did before 1973, when Roe v. Wade allowed women to decide whether to carry their pregnancy to term.
How then will physicians respond?
