Abortion related news, 10 May 24

May 10, 2024

Almost two-thirds of younger workers would “probably not” or “definitely not” live in a state that banned abortion, a new CNBC/Generation Lab survey finds.
“These numbers on abortion have gigantic implications for just about every large company in America,” said Cyrus Beschloss, the CEO of The Generation Lab.

According to new statistics from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), for the second year in a row, students graduating from U.S. medical schools this year were less likely to apply for residency positions in states with abortion bans and other significant abortion restrictions.
Since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, state fights over abortion access have created plenty of uncertainty for pregnant patients and their doctors. But that uncertainty has also bled into the world of medical education, forcing some new doctors to factor state abortion laws into their decisions about where to begin their careers.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans support abortion legality in all or most cases; partisans remain deeply divided.
- More than six in ten Americans (64%) say abortion should be legal in most or all cases; by contrast, 35% of Americans say abortion should be illegal in most or all cases.
- Just 9% of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in all cases.
- Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided on abortion, with a 50-point gap between them: 86% of Democrats say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared with 36% of Republicans. Just 15% of Republicans believe abortion should be illegal in all cases.

What if a New Jersey woman who is pregnant needs to take a business trip to a part of the country where reproductive health care is under attack, U.S. Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill said. Should she go? What about a college graduate thinking of where to start a family, she asked — would she want to pick a part of the country where a future pregnancy could be a death sentence? Terrence T. McDonald, editor, New Jersey Monitor
If Donald Trump wins again, I can’t prevent all the protections we fought so hard for in Michigan from being erased. . . Donald Trump and the right-wing groups who support him want to hit the ground running with policies that would put Michigan’s protections in jeopardy. They want to allow the government to invade women’s privacy and monitor their pregnancies, restrict access to IVF and contraception, and outlaw the distribution of abortion pills. And their North Star, a national abortion ban, could effectively cancel out Michigan’s constitutional protections. Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Detroit Free Press.

If you like these essays, please subscribe or share them with others. These essays will continue to be free. Instead of giving me money, please repost these essays and strive to make our world a better place and to make yourself a better person.
The index to this blog is here.
I have another blog on Cancer and Medicine.
Email me at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.
I also publish Notes at https://substack.com/note. Subscribers will automatically see my notes.
You can also follow me on LinkedIn, Threads and Instagram: npernickmich and Tribel: @nat385440b.

Nat's essays on politics, civics, cancer and medicine