Doctors Need Answers on Dobbs. Lawyers Don’t Have Them Yet.

Health-care lawyers are being flooded with phone calls in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to throw out Roe v. Wade and return the abortion issue to the states.

Hospitals, health systems, telehealth providers, and doctors are looking for answers about whether Texas’s restrictive abortion law will come to other states, whether their health plans could be seen as aiding and abetting abortion, what privacy risks patients could face, and how the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center will affect the care they can and can’t provide pregnant patients.

The nation’s top health-care lawyers packed a conference ...