In her book Achieving Peace in the Abortion Wars (2009) author Rachel M. MacNair, PhD describes how the lack of doctors willing to perform abortions forces clinics to rely on only a few, allowing doctors with poor records and malpractice suits to continue to practice. If there is only a small pool of doctors to choose from, clinics are less likely to fire doctors who injure women. They know that getting a replacement doctor would be difficult or impossible. Here, MacNair says:
Share on Facebook“The New York Times even suggested in an editorial on October 13, 1994, that as abortion providers get more scarce, they also tend to be seedier. Young doctors see that doctors who do abortions get little respect. Nor is it terribly comforting to be one of only a very few people, as the numbers dwindle. The Times dealt with the subject of dwindling abortion doctors in a lead article of 13 pages on January 18, 1998; only 12% of OB-GYN programs routinely teach abortion and all indications are it is “trending down.”