‘A lot of forced birth’: abortion providers’ predictions for a post-Roe America

Health workers are wrestling with the best ways to fight back against a decision they long expected

Last week, Dr Maya Bass, a family physician, was on a call with the medical director of Trust Women, one of four abortion clinics in Oklahoma. They were scrambling to figure out how to keep their doors open after the leak of a draft opinion signaling the supreme court's intent to overturn Roe v Wade and the Oklahoma governor's signing of SB1503 into law, banning abortions in the state after six weeks of pregnancy.

With my colleagues, there's a lot of anger," Bass says. As a medical professional, it's really hard to spend your life studying to become an expert in a certain area and then have a politician with no medical expertise and not even a uterus take away your power to offer patients safe medical care."