Excellent summary of another adverse impact of the Dobbs ruling and the Anti-Abortion states. Thanks again for this great piece.
This impact on medical education has been largely unreported in the media, so thank you for getting into the detail. It is important for the public to understand the full impact on state medical education and future physician access. And also the bordering states having to increase training opportunities for medical training refugees.
Currently these harms only impact the states banning abortion. The larger point is that the anti-abortion forces’ agenda is to impose their restrictions on all states and every woman and every medical school.
That is what is truly at stake with the coming election cycles. Like Brexit and the Brits blindly pursuing dogma unattached to actual reality, Americans, if they elect a Republican majority, will be in for years of self induced harm they never imagined.
ACOG should force the issue now and start to decertify the obstetrics programs in anti-abortion states. That is the only way to get this issue to proper attention. Of course, these states will break from ACOG and form their own confederate pro-life certifications based on dogma, anti-science, and misinformation. It will be a clear distinction. Physicians training in those states will not qualify to work in science based states which insist on comprehensive reproductive health training for licensure. But there we are.
Great work on this story.
Excellent summary of another adverse impact of the Dobbs ruling and the Anti-Abortion states. Thanks again for this great piece.
This impact on medical education has been largely unreported in the media, so thank you for getting into the detail. It is important for the public to understand the full impact on state medical education and future physician access. And also the bordering states having to increase training opportunities for medical training refugees.
Currently these harms only impact the states banning abortion. The larger point is that the anti-abortion forces’ agenda is to impose their restrictions on all states and every woman and every medical school.
That is what is truly at stake with the coming election cycles. Like Brexit and the Brits blindly pursuing dogma unattached to actual reality, Americans, if they elect a Republican majority, will be in for years of self induced harm they never imagined.
ACOG should force the issue now and start to decertify the obstetrics programs in anti-abortion states. That is the only way to get this issue to proper attention. Of course, these states will break from ACOG and form their own confederate pro-life certifications based on dogma, anti-science, and misinformation. It will be a clear distinction. Physicians training in those states will not qualify to work in science based states which insist on comprehensive reproductive health training for licensure. But there we are.