Medical students at quite a few medical schools in the US are now applying for practical training and training on how to perform abortions. This, following the controversial ruling of the Supreme Court in Washington to ban abortions. This was reported this morning (Wednesday) by the news website STATNews.
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The report cited an example: a fourth-year medical student, who intended to learn and practice in a hospital how to perform abortions, discovered that a few hours after the ruling of the US Supreme Court came into effect, her medical school program on the subject and the clinic, where the students underwent the practical training under house supervision, were canceled patients and the medical school, closed its doors to this issue.
However, with the help of the medical school in Ira, the student finally found a clinic in London to which she will travel this month to undergo the training required to become a gynecologist who also specializes in issues such as family planning, and for that it is necessary to study all aspects of this specialization.
According to the report, this is not an isolated case and medical schools in the US where students were also trained in performing abortions claim that there is now a wave of students leaving for different countries to receive the training there. , and all this before the Supreme Court’s ruling came into effect, which is a law that is supposed to apply to all states in the US. The medical schools tried to fight the sweeping ruling and called it “a return to the dark days”.
Estimate: About 15% of the approximately 5,000 medical students in the US who intended to undergo the practical training this year began to look for other places to do so. It is not impossible that this number will triple in the near future. The “wave of departures” is considered a damage to the reputation of American medicine, Mainly women’s medicine.
Training in performing abortions, which was part of the curriculum, is not a condition for receiving certification to practice medicine. Until now, the training given to medical students was theoretical, practical and included the obligation to refer to different forms of abortion, the management of the procedure, the need for abortion in cases of cancer, treatment of ectopic pregnancy and how to treat the placenta and the umbilical cord after the abortion. Experts in the US are now afraid of unnecessary deaths of pregnant women in countries where the blanket law prohibiting abortion has come into effect, partly because many gynecologists are under-specialized and under-trained in issues related to reproductive health.