CHAMP faculty Rebecca Staiger's recent article titled "Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians’ Practice Locations Before and After the Dobbs Decision" sought to investigate if practice locations of obstetricians and gynecologists (OBGYNs) have changed since the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization US Supreme Court decision in June 2022. 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. Staiger and co-authors found that 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.
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