Dr. Alison Stuebe, a physician who cares for high-risk pregnancies, is one of more than 1,100 medical professionals who wrote an open letter to NC lawmakers last month, warning them not to further restrict abortion access in the state.
Such bans create a “chilling effect” that threaten patients' lives, Stuebe said at a news conference tied to the open letter,
“When we ban abortion at any point, we cause fear for clinicians that take us away from our fiduciary responsibility to do what is best for the patient in front of us. And we have to navigate a call to legal and a discussion about ‘am I doing the right thing for the patient and if I do the right thing for the patient am I going to lose my medical license,” she said.
“There is no exception that can be written into legislation that covers all of the gray areas that come up in this work,” Stuebe said. “There is no way to safely implement a ban on abortion at any gestational age without harming women and the people who love them.”
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