Alabama doctor vows to keep providing abortions when ban goes into effect
An Alabama doctor has vowed to keep providing abortions when the state’s near-total ban against the procedure goes into effect.
Dr. Yashica Robinson, who is the medical director of the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives, said she “will not change my daily routine” when the legislation, which bans the procedure in nearly all cases, including rape and incest, starts being enforced in six months.
“Just as I have for the last 15 years of my medical career, I will continue to deliver babies, give prenatal care — and provide abortions,” Robinson wrote in a CNN op-epd.
Robinson said she’s enraged the bill which was signed into law Wednesday forces her and other doctors to “choose between what is ethically and medically appropriate care and breaking the law.”
“I am appalled that I could get a more severe penalty (up to 99 years in prison) for providing safe abortion care than someone who commits second-degree rape” Robinson said. “And I hate that I am being placed in the position of reassuring my patients that abortion is still legal today — and for the foreseeable future — despite the actions of politicians in Birmingham.”
The ban will likely lead to OB-GYNs choosing to practice in other states, leaving women in Alabama with inadequate care, according to Robinson.
“I am frightened for Alabamians because, should this law ever go into effect, doctors like me will leave Alabama rather than stay and practice substandard medicine,” she said.
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