According to Insider, the deaths of cancer patients who become pregnant because they can't get treatment will be the end result of the overturn of Wade.
The experts said that doctors may be afraid to give treatments if they can end a pregnant woman's life.
Before the Supreme Court ruling, pregnant people and doctors could only make their own decisions about treatment based on medical factors.
The experts said that more restrictive laws could make doctors hesitant to give treatments to patients for fear of being charged with illegal abortions.
The president of the Society of gynecologic Oncology said that the ruling calls into question giving treatment that may cause abortion.
Cancer treatments won't affect the pregnant woman. Karen Knudsen is the CEO of the American Cancer Society.
Blank, who is also the director of gynecologic Oncology for the Mount Sinai Health System, said that certain types of therapy can affect a fetus and increase the risk of a baby's stillbirth.
She said that some cancers can't be treated without ending a pregnant woman's life.
The director of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O'Neill Institute said that providers are at risk if they are found guilty.
"You're putting physicians in an impossible situation and they're not going to provide the care for fear of the liability."
They can be fined or lose their medical license in some states. She said that they could be imprisoned in other places.
"We're in a very state-by-state situation, and we're not sure what to do about it," he said.
In an interview with Insider, the director of reproductive rights and health litigation at the National Women's Law Center said that states could try to criminalize pregnant people for pregnancies gone wrong.
People who suffer a miscarriage may be forced to justify or prove that they did not cause it.
Knudsen pointed to a case in the Dominican Republic to show what could be happening in the US.
She was 16 when she was diagnosed with leukemia. She was seven weeks pregnant when courts denied her treatment. Shortly after, she died.
She would have had a better chance of survival if the treatment had been given immediately.
I need to say this forcefully. Knudsen stated that there is a correlation between early intervention and better outcomes.
She said that the American Cancer Society is concerned about the effect of the ruling on cancer patients.
There have been consequences in the US.
Val Haskell, who runs the Women's Med Center in Dayton, Ohio, said that a cancer patient was turned away on Monday because she wanted an abortion before her treatment.
On the day the Supreme Court ruling came down, a bill banning abortion after six weeks came into effect.
The woman didn't think she would get pregnant, but she did in June.
Her doctors ended her treatment immediately. The Supreme Court ruling left her with no access to abortion in Ohio, even though she was past six weeks.
The woman was terminated in Indiana on June 30.
People who are pregnant could be excluded from newer cancer treatments. It is not possible to provide legal certainty that a fetus would be unharmed in a clinical trial.
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