Karen, you are shooting from the hip about how physicians in general feel about abortions. I think you are victim of confirmation bias. Sorry, that's just the truth.
I ran an Ob/Gyn group of 60 OBs and only 2 would perform abortions on women, who were not their regular patients.
In addition, for decades Catholic hospitals have had no problem recruiting physicians eventhough they don't do abortions. In fact, it is a relief to many OBs to say, "I am sorry my hospital does not allow abortions".
Many OB/GYNs that are relieved that they don't have to do elective abortions. Med students are not a very good guage, they are ideologues. Things change when they become doctors. I also taught one week a year at a medical school and it was amazing the disconnect between 4th year medical students view of how they would practice medicine and how it was practiced in real life.
Planned Parenthood partially justifies their "need" based on the fact that most OBs won't do abortions.
You asked a good question regarding pre and post natal care. The answer is... if a woman is certain she wants to put her baby up for adoption, there are plenty of couples prepared to pay all the expenses related to the pregnancy. They would pay even more if it were legal, but it is not. The issue is when a woman is undecided, in those cases, no one will step forward to fund her pregnancy.
Regarding physicians losing their license. This is media hype. Courts simply are not going to uphold laws that prevent medically necessary abortions. They are already overturning some that are to restrictive. You point that out in your post with respect to the DOJ suit. So yes, some laws will go to far and be overturned, but physicians are not going to lose their licenses over medically necessary abortions.
As for corporations leaving a state which limits abortions. Very few companies are going to make abortion a central issue regarding where they locate. For now it makes for "good press". But keep in mind, the vast majority of citiizens want limitations on abortions and those sentiments will eventually be reflected in their respective state's laws.
There is a shortage of physicians practicing in rural areas and the most likely solution won't come from whatever abortion law is passed by a state, but rather through expanded scope of practice laws for NPs and PAs. Truthfully, studies show they can address 90% of the medical needs of patients and in most cases the other 10% need access to facilities that are not present in rural areas even if the physicians were.
I also ran primary care physician and emergency room physician groups... big groups... as in over 400 physicians spread across Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. I would never recommend a woman get an abortion in rural area that lacks the medical facilities necessary to handle an emergency should it arise. Rural medical practices are primarily there to provide prescriptive care consults, and and sometimes low risk procedures, not abortions.
