Consequences of Abortion Bans on Medical Training, Implications for Reproductive Health

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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy on Tuesday spoke at a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the impact of abortion bans on healthcare access across the country. In his questions to Dr. Nisha Verma, Fellow at Georgia’s Physicians for Reproductive Health, Dr. Allison Linton, Chief Medical Officer at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, and Destiny Lopez, acting co-CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, Murphy expressed concerns about the risk of losing lifesaving reproductive healthcare protections for women and families in Connecticut. He also discussed the widespread impact of abortion bans on the training of future medical professionals and the impact on the healthcare workforce in Connecticut and across the country.