Medical residency applications have dropped significantly in abortion-restricted states following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
That’s the finding of a research team that included the University of Arizona and two other schools.
A UA researcher partnered with the University of Washington and UNC-Chapel Hill to analyze application rates before and after the Supreme Court decision.
The findings reveal disparities in the states where abortion restrictions have been implemented.
Anna Morenz is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Arizona. She helped study how application rates changed after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“We looked at the — whether abortion restrictions impacted the application rate to states that enacted restrictions after the 2022 Supreme Court decision versus states that did not," she said.
Anisha Ganguly is an assistant professor of medicine at UNC.
“It's not surprising that residency applications would be dropping to states that have enacted abortion restrictions. And we had originally hypothesized that this would be worse for women compared to men," she said.
But that hypothesis was wrong. While the rates fell for both genders, the drop was bigger for men.
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