OB-GYNs could have solidified abortion as health care after Roe. They missed their chance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : But the story of abortion in America might have been different, if the medical profession in 1973 had taken women's health care needs more seriously.
47% : Our Care Post Roe project has also received submissions from doctors in states where abortion remains legal and who have treated patients from states with bans, typically through arrangements made by their local doctors.
44% : But there was less support for those who provided abortion.
39% : If 50 years ago the field of OB-GYN had not been so skittish about abortion and this care had been firmly entrenched in medical institutions, it is quite possible that abortion would have come to be understood -- by the medical profession and the general public -- primarily as health care and not as the most divisive issue in American politics.
33% : These efforts are important, but the fact remains that abortion is now on track to become illegal in about half of the U.S. -- and it didn't have to be this way.

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