Our Abortion Stories, a Provider’s Perspective: ‘I Wore a Bulletproof Vest When I Went to the Abortion Clinic’

“Abortion providers are given advice on how to avoid attacks,” wrote Dr. Steven H. Eisinger, an ob-gyn for over four decades. “Drive different routes; be acutely aware of your surroundings; never stand in a window.”

10/13/2023

by STEVE EISINGER

A Spy in the Freedom of Choice Clinic
A young woman showed up at Freedom of Choice (my abortion clinic) who appeared—I hesitate to write it—godly. She had a sweet expression and a low voice. Her dress was modest and appeared old-fashioned to me. She was not sure what she wanted to do.

I tried to elicit her story. It had to do with a fiancé who had a job; maybe he was moving and maybe she was in school. It was not clear. She was also quite vague regarding her last menstrual period, contraception and a pregnancy test that she could not quite read. She seemed more interested in asking me personal questions, like, “Why do you do abortions?”

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2023/10/13/abortion-provider-stories/  


‘It’s demoralizing’: Idaho abortion ban takes toll on medical providers

State’s OB-GYN numbers are dwindling in the face of a legal onslaught amid fears that patients will be unable to access care

Abigail Abrams
Sun 16 Jul 2023

Most mornings Dr Stacy Seyb is awake by 6am. He begins his day with meetings before a packed schedule seeing 18-20 patients going through high-risk pregnancies in Boise, Idaho. He has had a long career of treating people with all sorts of obstetrical complications so he’s used to stress. But it’s never been like this.

Now that federal protections for abortion have been gone for more than a year and Idaho is approaching the anniversary of its near-total abortion ban, the state has seen an exodus of OB-GYNs and other medical providers, leaving Seyb as one of the last remaining maternal-fetal medicine physicians in his state.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/idaho-abortion-ban-ob-gyn-doctors


USA – Becoming An Abortion Provider Is Filled With Barriers, Too

Becoming An Abortion Provider Is Filled With Barriers, Too

By Jo Yurcaba
Jan 2, 2020

When Dr. Elise Boos was a third-year medical resident, she would drive five hours north throughout the year to a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana — one of the three abortion clinics in the state — to learn how to provide first and second trimester abortions. She and the other residents had to stay at a nearby hotel for two weeks at a time. Boos, who is now a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, says the rotation reinforced the stigma of the procedure for her, "because you had to leave town in order to get this training," she says. "It was hard to imagine how you could do that work in the South and still be a member of the medical community."

Continued: https://www.bustle.com/p/becoming-abortion-provider-is-filled-with-barriers-too-19497228


Abortion is Healthcare: 28 Providers

INTERNATIONAL SAFE ABORTION DAY 28 September 2019

Abortion is Healthcare: 28 Providers

A newsletter from the International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion, featuring the stories of 28 abortion providers, in honour of September 28.

Continued: https://mailchi.mp/safeabortionwomensright/abortion-is-healthcare-28-providers-for-international-safe-abortion-day?e=372dd34034