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  If that stance proves controversial in Texas, the Parkland doctor believes that pushback from doctors within individual hospitals matters, not just for pregnant women in extremis but for every person in the state who will need to rely at some point on an ob-gyn. New data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows that states that banned abortion have seen a drop in applications for obstetrics-and-gynecology residencies. Naturally , students considering coming to Texas are asking, How has the hospital responded to the bans? What does ob-gyn training look like these days? And what are you able to offer patients? “When nobody wants to train in Texas, as the physicians get older and retire, there will be no ob-gyns in the state,” the doctor told me. “And that’s when you’ll really see maternal mortality go up.” ♦