ASOG Family Planning, CORE faculty publish article in SSM-Health Systems

Researchers from the UW Department of Ob-Gyn Division of Academic Specialists in Ob-Gyn and the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) recently published an article in SSM – Health Systems. Authors include Laura Jacques, MD; Jenny Higgins, PhD, MPH; Corinne Hale; Eliza Bennett, MD; and Abigail Cutler, MD, MPH.

In “How U.S. healthcare institutions’ actions, or inactions, shaped physician experiences after Dobbs: A qualitative study,” the authors’ objective was to document how Wisconsin healthcare institutions’ (in)action under a near-total abortion ban post-Dobbs influenced physician experience and patient care. Twenty-one obstetrician-gynecologists from academic, community, and religiously affiliated healthcare systems across Wisconsin were recruited and interviewed about the impact of Dobbs on Wisconsin reproductive healthcare delivery. The researchers’ findings:

“... provide firsthand evidence that healthcare institutions are not passive conduits of state law, but active agents whose decisions shape how reproductive healthcare is delivered, or denied, in a post-Dobbs landscape. Institutional inaction, inconsistent guidance, and failure to support physicians have added another layer of harm to an already strained reproductive healthcare system.”

Read the whole article here. 

**by Ob-Gyn Communications Intern Melis Baskaya