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Winnipeg Free Press: Doctors Manitoba recruiting south of border

December 17, 2024 — 

The NDP has maintained the contract and pledged to create an office to help internationally educated health-care professionals find jobs and training in Manitoba.

“What type of doctors would want to be leaving? It could be those who are involved in reproductive rights, angry at living in Trump’s regime, especially after the Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. That might be one dynamic,” said Christopher Adams, an adjunct professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

Roe vs. Wade was the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that established a constitutional right to abortion; the Republican-majority court overturned the ruling in June 2022, turning the authority over to states, many of which have since made abortion illegal.

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