US abortion restrictions are hindering access to miscarriage care, study finds [View all]
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
Link to JAMA PUBLICATION - Management of Spontaneous Abortion Among Commercially Insured Individuals in the United States After Dobbs v Jackson
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