With Roe v Wade overturned, abortion is now banned in 13 states and subject to restrictions and litigation in more than a dozen others. In some states, courts are embroiled in an on-off battle that can see abortion banned in a state one day, unbanned the next, and back off the table two weeks later.

Doctors are on the frontlines of this chaotic landscape, fearful of running afoul of ever-changing law, in some cases struggling to provide life-saving care. In most cases, doctors have stayed in abortion-restrictive states, because despite restrictions on their medical practice, they have ties to their patients, their communities, their families.

But others have decided to leave. What do they leave behind? In a country where, according to an analysis from the March of Dimes

EditSign, nearly half of all counties lack a single obstetrician, what care will remain? And what do their predicaments tell us about what it is like to work in reproductive health in much of the US?

Here are five of their stories.

Alireza Shamshirsaz, 48

Alireza Shamshirsaz had a house […]