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How Abortions Bans are Changing Medical Care

Vitals goes behind the headlines to get the definitive answers to the health questions everyone is asking.

How Abortions Bans are Changing Medical Care

Season 1 Episode 22 | 15m 35s | CC

U.S. abortion bans have had an intense ripple effect for patients, providers, and medicine at large. We talk with OB-GYN @DrJenniferLincoln about everything from emergency care being denied, to medical residents forced to leave their home institutions for abortion training. Our Vitals hosts are also joined by Amanda and Josh Zurawski, a coupled denied a medically necessary abortion in Texas.

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