Cutler talks about post-Roe challenges with Wisconsin Health News

Abigail Cutler, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Division of Academic Specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology, spoke with Wisconsin Health News for a recent story about the struggles faced by doctors and patients in the aftermath of the Dobbs Decision.

In “Report sheds like on struggles of doctors, patients after fall of Roe v. Wade,” Cutler talked about her article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that pregnant patients received less-than-adequate care after Roe v. Wade was overturned. She also mentioned how this reality relates to a Wisconsin law from 1849 that some interpreted as criminalizing abortion.

“One of the most alarming things that emerged was that there was a total lack of clear, consistent guidance across the state regarding how this 1849 law should or shouldn't apply to actual clinical practice,” especially for doctors working patients over previable preterm premature rupture of membranes (previable PPROM).

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**by Ob-Gyn Communications Intern Paige Stevenson