This September, tens of thousands of medical students will submit applications for their residency, a chance to apply the skills they learned in medical school to real-life hospital and clinic settings across the country. This is a major milestone not just for the new doctors, who will start to hone their specialties and plant roots in the states in which they could spend the rest of their lives, but also for the communities they enter, which depend on the next generation of physicians for quality health care.

These students factor in a wide range of criteria when deciding where to do their residency, but over the past few years, they’ve started to consider something else: the state’s abortion laws. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , about half of the states have imposed

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