US abortion restrictions are hindering access to miscarriage care, study finds

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Source: The Guardian

Thu 28 May 2026 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Thu 28 May 2026 08.01 EDT


Abortion restrictions in the US have made it more difficult to access care for miscarriages, a new study stays. The new research found that since the June 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v Wade, pregnancy care has fractured along state lines; it’s getting increasingly harder to access healthcare for miscarriages in US states with abortion restrictions.

In states where abortion bans went into effect following Dobbs, miscarriage management is shifting away from medications, especially mifepristone, and toward a wait-and-see approach, restricting the options for patients experiencing miscarriages and falling beneath standards of care in the US.

“We wanted to understand how, when you restrict access to abortion, that might affect people who are having a pregnancy loss or an early miscarriage,” said Maria Rodriguez, lead author of the study, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and director for the Center for Women’s Health at Oregon Health & Science University. “What we found was that people had fewer choices to the type of care they got, and they were receiving lower-quality care as well.”

The study, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association on 18 May, looked at a total of 123,598 people with private insurance. Some 54,181 of the patients lived in states with restrictions on abortion after six weeks that were triggered by the Dobbs decision, while 69,417 lived in comparison states.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/28/abortion-restrictions-miscarriage-healthcare

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Link to JAMA PUBLICATION - Management of Spontaneous Abortion Among Commercially Insured Individuals in the United States After Dobbs v Jackson

[Lovie777]

1. That's because it's always the woman's fault...............

rinse and repeat, woke history.

[pfitz59]

2. My dad was a small town docter, pre Roe v Wade

He was the ER doctor on-call most days. He made many 'covert' trips to the ER to D & C botched abortions and miscarriages. We kids heard he and our mother talking about these things. He never ratted out the abortions, they were a crime, all were classed 'miscarriage'. Our town was small, but I recall many such incidents. Extrapolating to the larger population it must have been an enormous number nationwide. This was back when 'marital rape' wasn't a crime. Birth control was illegal, or unobtainable without a husband's consent. Sex Ed was folk lore and misinformation passed around among teens. We had made so much progress until Trump unleashed the MAGA sickness. Women and girls are at risk again. Medical providers are caught in a moral and ethical dilemma. I see no easy way to recover what we've lost. Evil is loose in this nation.

[wolfie001]

3. rePUKEs couldn't care any less how many women and children they kill

Natural outcome of christo-fascism.