Dr. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, the president of the American Medical Women’s Association, says the association is working to educate the public and elected officials about the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“What you do in the voting booth affects what I can do in the exam room,” said Rohr-Kirchgraber, on Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look.”
Rohr-Kirchgraber, who also works as a professor of medicine at the Augusta University and University of Georgia medical partnership, told program Rose Scott that pregnancy can affect a woman’s physical and mental health and that 1 in 4 women in the U.S. has had an abortion—
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