Anti-Abortion States Look To Revoke Providers’ Licenses To Enforce Bans

By Cara Smith / July 1, 2022 at 2:22 PM
Multiple Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed or are pursuing bills that require state medical boards to revoke or suspend providers' licenses if they are found to have furnished abortion services to patients located in states where the procedure is banned amid the rapidly changing medical landscape since the overturn of Roe V. Wade , according to data collected by the Guttmacher Institute. The National Right to Life Committee says this is part of abortion-opponents' multi-pronged plan to enforce anti-abortion laws...


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