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According to new statistics from the Association of American Medical Colleges, for the second year in a row, students graduating from U.S. medical schools were less likely to apply this year for residency positions in states with abortion bans and other significant abortion restrictions.
Since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, state fights over abortion access have created plenty of uncertainty for pregnant patients and their doctors. But that uncertainty has also bled into the world of medical education, forcing some new doctors to factor state abortion laws into their decisions about where to begin their careers.
Fourteen states, primarily in the Midwest and South, have banned nearly all abortions. The new analysis by the AAMC — a preliminary copy of which was exclusively reviewed by KFF Health News before its public release — found that the number of applicants to residency programs in states with near-total abortion bans declined by 4.2%, compared with a 0.6% drop in states where abortion remains legal.
Notably, the AAMC’s findings illuminate the broader problems abortion bans can create for a state’s medical community, particularly in an era of provider shortages: The organization tracked a larger decrease in interest in residencies in states with abortion restrictions not only among those in specialties most likely to treat pregnant patients, like OB-GYNs and emergency room doctors, but also among aspiring doctors in other specialties.
I don’t really feel like a child should be reduced to being called a meat bean. That’s some possible life saving blood donor growing in there, and it might save your life one day.
This line of reasoning is maddeningly stupid. Guess what, we’re all made of stardust. Don’t be mistreating any matter whatsoever lest you kill a potential life.
Science says it’s a meat bean. You’re just straight up wrong. It’s not a child in every sense of the word
I know that most biologists would call it a fetus. Before that it’s an embryo. Before that, it’s a blastocyst. The funny part is, if a fetus is born early at around 6months (even earlier in some cases) it’s called a premature baby, and can survive outside of the womb with the help of a good NICU. At what point would you stop calling it a “meat bean”?
And why are we talking about the fetus alone as having a future? That woman forced to incubate a fetus might be losing her chance at medical school. She might be the difference between saving my life or not. Women are not just for growing children.
Being raped and carrying a child didn’t stop me from finishing my master’s degree, and one other certification related to my field. I had to work around the morning sickness, dealt with the swollen ankles around evening each day, and the back pain. I think a woman who has an abortion, instead of carrying her baby to full term is in for a lifetime of mental health issues. Then again, every time I try to dna test my children, to prove that a relative raped me, I am threatened with being framed and locked up in either a ward, or jail, to stop me from gathering dna on them. Saliva. That’s all it would take. Two tubes of saliva and sending them to a lab to be tested. All less than $200. I still think my life would be worse without my children, though. I love them. I can’t imagine my life without having had them.
What happened to you is really awful. You made your decision and you love your children. You were resilient enough to finish a Master’s in addition, I’m not certain everyone could or would.
I don’t want it to be up to you or that state to determine the best choices for other people medically, including mentally. It should be between them and their doctors.
It could also be a Repub who wants to force unwilling women into medical slavery as incubators.
I don’t think maybe saving my life is an acceptable reason to force women to be medical equipment. To be clear, I don’t think 100% certainty of saving my life is an acceptable reason either.
It is a meat bean. If someone chooses to incubate it into a child that’s okay too.