The Supreme Court termination of health care for women is an attack on the profession of medicine as well as an attack on women and girls.
How can it be in a “developed” country that six justices, well beyond reproductive age, can deny women’s right to basic health care. None of these six individuals has studied medicine.
None have participated in the complex decisions based on expertise and experience, which physicians embrace every day in providing care for patients.
It is absurd that the practice of medicine be limited and controlled by those with no knowledge or compassion about patient care.
I am concerned about other ways in which women’s health care could be limited such as criminalization of miscarriage, banning of hysterectomies, proscribing sterilization procedures for both men and women, and terminating in vitro fertilization, a way in which infertile couples may be able to give birth to a child.
The only path Americans have to reverse these decisions is to elect an overwhelming majority of members to Congress who have the courage and commitment to codify women’s access to health care into the laws of our land.
The health care of women and girls has descended into The Dark Ages in America.
Susan C. Ristow
Durango
