What: The New Yorker has a deep dive on the increasing number of OBGYNs leaving Texas due to restrictive abortion laws and challenging working conditions. This is exacerbating healthcare access issues for women in the state, particularly in rural areas. In one example, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s entire OB-GYN department is shutting down, highlighting the severity of the crisis.

Key line: “…Eventually, her family doctor referred her to another physician: Tony Ogburn, the founding chairman of the ob-gyn department at the nearby University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Ogburn, a tall man of sixty-four, with white hair and rimless glasses, had come to the Valley eight years before, with a mission to improve health care for women. When he read Garcia’s file, he was outraged. After carrying the dead fetus for weeks, she risked needing a full hysterectomy. Why had she had to wait this long?”

Source: New Yorker // https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/the-texas-ob-gyn-exodus