SCOTUS Overturns Roe -- Ramifications Threaten Broader Health Care Sector, Experts Fear

Health care experts say the Supreme Court’s Friday decision to reverse Roe v. Wade and leave abortion decisions up to the states will rattle other entrenched principles of health care, including on privacy, provider education, free choice of provider and the patient-provider relationship, and pro-choice advocates are frantically urging Congress and the White House to counteract the decision with statutory and regulatory protections. The high court, in a 6 to 3 opinion, ruled : “The Constitution does not confer...