Limiting Access to Abortion Will Potentially Harm Patients With Gynecologic Cancers

The Global Community Stands with ASTRO's Experts in Protecting Women's Rights

“…1 We stand with the authors, and those of accompanying commentaries, in decrying the disparities in health care which the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling will necessarily produce through eliminating the constitutional protections surrounding abortion. [2][3][4] Similar to all those authors, we are astonished that such a ruling can occur within the United States, a nation that sees freedom and equality as its watchwords, and that is widely viewed as a leading democracy on the world stage.Sadly, the US Supreme Court judgment ruled against the basic human right of bodily autonomy. We share the concern of our American-based colleagues that this ruling will result in unsafe unregulated abortions, as well as delays and dangers to patients' health provision, by jeopardizing timely delivery of lifesaving anticancer treatments in those with cancer, for which termination of pregnancy may be required.…”

“…1 We stand with the authors, and those of accompanying commentaries, in decrying the disparities in health care which the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling will necessarily produce through eliminating the constitutional protections surrounding abortion. [2][3][4] Similar to all those authors, we are astonished that such a ruling can occur within the United States, a nation that sees freedom and equality as its watchwords, and that is widely viewed as a leading democracy on the world stage.…”