Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Surgeons should prepare to face more abortion complications post-Wade January 31, 2023 British Medical Journal BMJ Acute care surgeons should prepare to treat complications of forced pregnancies and unsafe abortions following the Supreme Courtâ s decision to overturn Roe v Wade in the USA in 2022, argue experts in an opinion piece published in the journal Trauma Surgery Acute Care Open. The decision will disproportionately affect poor women and women of colour and will be harmful to patients , their families , and communities , and so âshould be denounced by the profession,â they . say Abortion is very common in the USA , and constitutes âessential healthcareâ , say the authors .