When an OB/GYN is antiabortion
When we talk about abortion access in the U.S., we talk a lot about Roe v. Wade, the actions of state lawmakers, the court system. But we don\u2019t talk about doctors \u2014 and what they do or don\u2019t say to patients behind closed doors.
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After Texas passed the country\u2019s most restrictive abortion law, many abortion rights advocates feared that other states would follow suit \u2014 states like West Virginia that have already made moves in the past to restrict access to abortion.
But reporter Caroline Kitchener has found that there are other barriers to abortion already in place, some of which are invisible to us: \u201cI had never even thought about this other barrier that is doctors,\u201d Caroline said. \u201cDoctors who might not talk to women about the option of abortion.\u201d
Caroline has spent many, many months reporting on Byron Calhoun, the only high-risk pregnancy OB/GYN in central West Virginia. He also happens to be staunchly antiabortion.
Today on \u201cPost Reports,\u201d we talk about what that means for his patients \u2014 and, more broadly, how doctors\u2019 political beliefs can affect the kind of care they provide their patients.