Impossible Choices: A Physician’s Reflections on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe

How the overturning of Roe has imperiled high-risk pregnancies and how to ensure safe patient healthcare in the future. From a leading doctor on the front lines after the Dobbs decision. Doctors and patients confronting high-risk pregnancies have always faced profound and life-altering decisions.But after the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe, many of these decisions seem impossible.As a firsthand witness to this convulsion, David Hackney, a leading physician in maternal fetal medicine, offers knowledgeable, thoughtful guidance to patients and practitioners contending with high-risk pregnancies in our new reality. Impossible Choices focuses on the practical implications of high-risk complications for people who are pregnant or considering pregnancy including conditions such as pre-eclampsia, premature membrane rupture, or birth defects especially in states now under abortion bans. And because maternal fetal medicine overlaps with other medical fields as pregnant patients struggle wit