Allison Case, a family medicine physician, spends much of her time working in a hospital where she delivers babies and provides reproductive health care services, including abortions.
Case lives and works in Indiana, where a ban on most abortions took effect for a week in late September until a judge temporarily halted the ban — a stay the state is certain to appeal. Case is also licensed to practice in New Mexico, a state where abortion remains legal.
Before Indiana’s abortion ban took effect, Case would use her days off to provide reproductive health services, including abortion care, via telemedicine through a clinic that serves patients in New Mexico. Many of them travel from neighboring Texas, where abortion is banned.
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