What Abortion Bans Do to Doctors
Politics In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients’ lives at risk. September 12, 2024 Kylie Cooper has seen all the ways a pregnancy can go terrifyingly, perilously wrong. She is an obstetrician who manages high-risk patients, also known as a maternal-fetal-medicine specialist, or MFM. The awkward hyphenation highlights the duality of the role. Cooper must care for two patients at once: mother and fetus, mom and baby. On good days,