New Doctors Avoiding States With Abortion Bans, Threatening More Maternal Care Deserts
When Dr. Jamila Perritt, president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, was completing her medical training to become a doctor in the 2000s, she delayed becoming pregnant and having kids—like many other medical students and residents—amid her strenuous workload. In the final year of her residency, Perritt became pregnant with her first child, and this development was a crucial factor in her decision on where to live after her residency. “I had to know where I moved that I could get the