Abortion training under threat for med students, residents

[IcyPeas]

...And new restrictions are piling up: Within the past year, bills or laws seeking to limit abortion education have been proposed or enacted in at least eight states. The changes are coming from abortion opponents emboldened by new limits on the procedure itself, as well as a pending Supreme Court decision that could upend the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
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In 2020, Stanford University researchers said they found that half of medical schools included no formal abortion training or only a single lecture.

“Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures,” they wrote. “Yet abortion-related topics are glaringly absent from medical school curricula.”
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An Idaho law enacted last year exemplifies the trend. It bars using tuition and fees for abortion and related activities in school-based clinics at institutions that receive state funds.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-science-health-education-medical-schools-d3efaa2ec79ed240ee9ba2a77508a06e

[TheBlackAdder]

1. "God doesn't make mistakes!" People who say that have never visited the Mutter Museum in Philly.

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The lower level has scores of specimens pertaining to varying fetal deformities

https://muttermuseum.org/

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[milestogo]

2. Its only ob/gyns who perform abortions and deliver babies.

I suspect that performing an abortion is fairly simple. Still, its ridiculous to offer no training at all.