By banning abortions in red states, those states are going to create a bottleneck of OBGYNS. Because they won’t be able to get residencies in red states. If people can’t finish their OBGYN residency, those states will end up with a maternity care desert. This is one of those things where it’s, be careful what you wish for.
There’s a large exodus of OBGYNs that do not want to practice in red states because when you’re doing a residency, you have to be educated on the topic. But they can’t finish in red states because of abortion bans. They will leave. Abortion IS health care.
Even the OBGYNs who are practicing don’t want to perform abortions because they don’t want to go to jail.
You might even see lawyers leaving red states because they don’t want to be jailed defending abortion cases. Lawyers probably don’t want to prosecute teachers for bringing a banned book to school.
Then you have engineers. If republicans deregulate the safety of building a train for example, and something unexpected happens, engineers don’t want to be sued.
If republicans deregulate the construction of buildings, builders don’t want to get sued if something unexpected happens because of skipping safety inspections.
Republicans’ version of utopia is mindless. If all they do is put people in jail for no reason, it’s basically a version of the Taliban.
I don’t think people realize how bad it is.
Notes:
The Fall of Roe v. Wade Is Already Damaging Basic Obstetric Care in Red States
Abortion doctors’ post-Roe dilemma: Move, stay or straddle state lines
A challenge for antiabortion states: Doctors reluctant to work there
Midterms: Poorest states have Republican legislatures, and richest have Democratic ones
DeSantis Suspends Tampa Prosecutor Who Vowed Not to Criminalize Abortion
Book ban underway as teachers fear prosecution in Florida
Indiana committee proposes deregulating engineers; would be only state with unlicensed engineers
Legislature joins push to delicense, deregulate all sorts of professions and jobs