If Roe falls, some fear repercussions for reproductive care

In Idaho, for example, it was prohibited at school-based health clinics last year under a law banning public funding for “abortion related services.”Along with long-acting birth control devices called IUDs, emergency contraception has been been attacked by abortion foes who believe life begins when an egg is fertilized.But those pills have no effect once a pregnancy is established, after implantation in the womb, Brandi said. It is a flagrant attempt to change the conversation and it won’t work,” spokesman Adam Kleinheider said in a statement.The governor of Mississippi, one of 13 states that will immediately ban abortion if Roe is overturned, wouldn’t say whether he’d sign a hypothetical birth-control ban when asked on “Meet the Press.” Gov. Tate Reeves later clarified on Twitter: “I’m not interested in banning contraceptives.” But doctors also worry other forms of reproductive care, like treating ectopic pregnancies, could be targeted. After Texas banned abortion after six weeks, Kerns said colleagues there have told of patients with ectopic pregnancies being transferred out of state for treatment, putting their health at risk.Physicians may even become hesitant to treat miscarriage, said Brandi, the New Jersey OB-GYN.Women often miscarry alone, early in pregnancy, with no need for medical assistance. Lawmakers in Louisiana considered a proposal to make it a homicide — a plan the governor said could criminalize some types of contraception and parts of the in vitro fertilization process.The legislation stalled, but it could signal future tactics.Oklahoma passed a series of strict new anti-abortion measures after seeing abortions spike as a ban in nearby Texas sent women to surrounding states.