What the End of Roe v. Wade Will Mean for the Next Generation of Obstetricians

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : So, during her second year as a resident, she launched a Web site called Conscience in Residency, a support network for doctors-in-training who have moral objections to abortion.
51% :Doctors haven't always seen abortion as a form of health care.
51% : She'll learn how to counsel patients on birth control and medication that can induce abortion in the early weeks of pregnancy, and, at some point in her training, she'll likely perform dilation and evacuation on patients in their second trimester of pregnancy, a process that involves opening a woman's cervix and removing the fetus.
50% : She and her fellow-students began lobbying the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to make training on elective abortions mandatory for ob-gyn residency programs, and in 1995 this became the standard -- all residents had to learn about abortion.
49% : The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or ACOG, on the other hand, firmly maintains that abortion is a form of health care and supports the right of a patient to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability.
49% : "Pro-life people do not understand why gynecologists talk about the need for abortion until they see a woman dying in front of their eyes because they're pregnant," Buskmiller said.
49% : But, culturally, pro-choice voices were growing louder within the world of obstetrics, arguing that abortion is a necessary part of reproductive health care.
49% : (A sister program, RHEDI, also provides family-medicine programs with resources to train residents about abortion.)
48% : "It will be necessary for physicians to realize that abortion has become a predominantly social as well as medical responsibility," they wrote.
45% : All students and young doctors have to sort out questions of how they want to practice medicine; aspiring ob-gyns' views on abortion might determine what training they seek out, which specialities they pursue, and where they choose to live.
44% : The text of Roe v. Wade hints at the differences among physicians in the early seventies; the Supreme Court took it for granted that some doctors would object to abortion for either moral or religious reasons.
40% : They believe that abortion can help keep families out of poverty and that it protects the lives of Black women, who, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.
39% : An "abortion 'mecca,' " someone commented about Oregon Health & Science University, in Portland: "Two faculty members stated directly in medical student lectures that they think anyone holding a conscientious objection to abortion should reconsider if it's ethical to be an ob-gyn."
39% : "Abortion was just taboo.
32% : In a post-Roe world, that self-sorting process would grow even more intense: in roughly half the country, abortion would be all but illegal, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-rights think tank.

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