Comment on Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions

Julie Rovner, Rachana Pradhan | (TNS) KFF Health News Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona. Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access — and, by extension, abortion training — is likely to remain protected, like California, Colorado, and New Mexico.