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Editor's Note: Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Editor's Note: Lorraine Frazier, interviewed here, is dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing. Dr. Frazier also appeared on NBC News Now.

The study suggests that the Dobbs decision affected not just abortion access, but “decisions women are making about contraception as well,” said Xiao Xu, the study’s lead author.

“The debates over scope of practice are fierce . . . and in part, it’s prompted by shortages,” says Michael Sparer, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.