Lots of healthcare professionals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists predicted that there would

be chaos in their field if Roe v Wade was overturned.

Here's what the president of the American Medical Association, Jack Resnick, has spent

the past weeks hearing from some of those people.

Physicians are literally having to call their hospital attorneys and ask questions like,

is a 30% chance of this patient dying enough to meet our state's new criteria?

Is the risk of losing one kidney enough to count as the health of the mother?

The health of the mother?

Under these new laws, it doesn't count so much because it can't.

We're also seeing patients with new cancer diagnoses, life-threatening cancers, where they

can't start their chemotherapy until they terminate their pregnancy.

And they can't terminate their pregnancy, so they can't get chemo.

Coming up, the unintended consequences, the things we didn't predict, the people trying

to get through this, on today's point.

It's today explained, I'm Noel King.

Peter Row was overturned, Francis Steed Sellers, a senior writer at The Washington Post,

started looking into these stories about confusion among medical professionals.

Early on in my reporting, I talked to a doctor, I remember in Kansas City, Missouri, who said

that once the laws came through, she found herself going to the lawyers who work in the hospital,

describing the various scenarios that come in the regular treatment of people who are pregnant.

There has been an awful lot of uncertainty, and that's not only for patients, but also

for doctors and pharmacists who've been trying to navigate their way through what seemed

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