I find it hard to enjoy a show that attempts to be dramatic and poignant with a real situation, but then sets it up with completely false facts. Roe vs Wade did not change the abortion laws in NY, which allowed it before RvW. So the SCOTUS decision had absolutely no effect for medical practices or abortion rights within NY, making the whole episode farcical.
Second, the idea that this is completely ignored for a show that is purposefully trying to be "real", destroys all credibility for any message they're trying to say. If they can't get a major fact correct, then why should anything else they say be given credibility? It's just crappy writing.
And then the nurses refusing to hand a surgeon a scalpel and complaining that it was a "waste of hospital resources"? In what world would that occur or be allowed, or has ever happened on this show for far more outlandish and risky procedures?
New Amsterdam has always played fast and loose with creating even vaguely realistic situations, but having a gigantic leaky vat of toxic substances on the top floor of a hospital is one thing... and screwing up major legal details on an episode purporting to deal dramatically with real-world legal things, is another.