Doctors, not politicians, should be guiding patients making personal healthcare decisions. What has been the impact of legislative restrictions on physicians who choose to practice reproductive healthcare? How has their life and their ability to practice medicine been impacted? What is the effect on patients and their families?
Speakers:
Dr. Misa Perron-Burdick, OB/GYN, was practicing in San Francisco, California, then moved to Boise, Idaho, two weeks before Roe was overturned. After the US Supreme Court decision Idaho quickly enacted an absolute ban on abortion. Dr Perron-Burdick handles high risk pregnancies and delivery complications and is on the front line observing the impacts of the abortion ban on a doctor’s ability to practice medicine and its impact ob/gyn healthcare for the women of Idaho.
Dr. Marian Sampson, OB/GYN, works with Planned Parenthood of Southwest-Central Florida. Dr. Sampson was a teen mother at 18, and her experience with her personal physician inspired her to become a doctor and ob/gyn herself. Dr. Sampson grew up in Mississippi. She graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed her obstetrics & gynecology residency at St. Petersburg Bayfront Medical.
Moderator:
Carrie Seidman, is an award-winning career newspaper journalist who has served on the staffs of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the Albuquerque Journal, and the Albuquerque Tribune. ’Currently, Carrie is an opinion columnist for the Sarasota Herald Tribune.