Women's Rights & Issues

I'm not saying it "should" be that way, but that's how it is. In cases where the best interests of staff, patients, and the hospital itself form a mostly overlapping venn diagram, that's not a major problem, but these wildly restrictive abortion laws are creating situations where the needs of patients to receive appropriate care and the needs of doctors to be able to provide that care without going go jail or losing their license to practice medicine are more and more likely to be at odds with the desire of the hospital to stay in good standing with state legislators, protect funding sources, and avoid lawsuits against the institution itself.

If a doctor gets in trouble with the law for exercising their professional judgment in a way that conflicts with one of these laws, they can be replaced. If it can be shown that the doctor was acting in accordance with an official hospital policy, the hospital can be in for a whole bunch of legal trouble and bad press. It's easier for administrators to throw the doctors under the bus than to risk that.

And of course, those who suffer the most are the women.