John Mercer Thorp, Jr. (born 1957 or 1958)[1] is an American obstetrician-gynecologist a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, and the Hugh McAllister Distinguished Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he directs the Division of General Obstetrics and Gynecology and serves as Vice Chair of Research.
[2] In addition to his positions at UNC, Thorp is also the medical director of Reply OB/GYN & Fertility in Cary, North Carolina.
[2] At UNC, he has helped the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology establish a clinical training program in Lilongwe, Malawi.
[4] He also serves as the principal investigator for UNC in the National Institutes of Health's Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network.
"[8] In 2014, U.S. district judge Myron H. Thompson rejected two of Thorp's arguments in an Alabama case regarding an admitting privileges requirement for abortion providers.