Executive Summary -
Reproductive health outcomes—and women’s health outcomes more broadly—are at crisis levels in Texas. The workforce that delivers reproductive health care, particularly obstetrician gynecologists (OB/GYN), is also in a precarious position in Texas, due in part to historic and worsening shortages and distribution imbalances which disproportionately impact rural and economically disadvantaged communities and marginalized communities of color. The recent history in Texas of legal restrictions on abortion, culminating in a near total ban following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022, is now complicating both of these interrelated challenges.
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