By Samantha Darby, Feb 20, 2025
Dr. Kecia Gaither, M.D., a double board-certified physician in OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine, is the director of perinatal services/maternal fetal health medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals. When I spoke to her in November, before Trump was officially sworn in as president, I’d hoped she’d beam a light of hope down and declare all of our fears unfounded. This did not happen. “Reproductive health and equity has taken a major hit in the wake of the Roe v. Wade reversal. In light of that ruling, many states have banned the election of pregnancy terminations, forcing women — and the physicians who care for them — to face difficult and, many times, life-threatening situations. For my colleagues in certain parts of the country, they have been witness to their health care compatriot being threatened, coerced, and even jailed for rendering care — even in the face of their patients facing life-threatening pregnancy complications,” she tells me. “The incoming administration’s agenda, via Project 2025, apparently will end access to medical abortion, curtail birth control access, allow health facilities to deny particular emergency saving care, and establish an abortion surveillance system… to name just a few.”
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