Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Public Health Consequences
The overturn of Roe v Wade wasn’t the only decision with health effects.
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In the December 2021 issue of AJN, Caroline Dorsen and colleagues wrote a Viewpoint, “Why Nurses Should Care About the Supreme Court.” In it, they note:
“The court decides cases every year that have direct implications for our patients, our role as health care providers, and our profession. They decide cases that speak to our common humanity and affect the systems that influence health disparities. And we should all care about that.”
This certainly rang true for decisions recently handed down by the Supreme Court.
Other health consequences of the Dobbs case.
While much of the attention on the recent Supreme Court rulings has focused on the overturn of Roe v. Wade (in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) and the effects that it will have for millions of women on their access to and choice of reproductive health care, we are starting to see many other potential effects of that decision.
An article at MedPage Today describes concerns that physicians may not choose obstetrics as a career because of worries over prosecution—what if a court doesn’t agree with their management of miscarriages or disagrees with their judgment that a mother’s life was in […]