What Can the AMA Do About This?

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There's tremendous fear, frankly, about prosecution and many of these states violating these restrictive laws is a level 5 felony. What are we supposed to do? Do we wait until it's too late and get sued by the family and rightly so? Or do we do our job, what we're trained to do, and have to defend that in court? We're worried about patients being prosecuted. We're worrying about patients' friends and family being prosecuted. So I just can't sugarcoat what a dangerous time this is.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe has implications far beyond abortion; it complicates access to vital drugs and delays essential care for pregnant people. The president of the American Medical Association explains how the chaos is hurting health care providers and their patients.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted.

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