Nearly half of OB-GYN medical students will not receive any abortion training if Roe v. Wade is overturned, according to a study from the University of California, San Francisco.
are passing and enacting restrictive abortion laws in anticipation of the court's ruling, even with federal abortion protections still in place.. It would take effect immediately after it is signed into law.
That would not only would it become the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., but it would make Oklahoma the first state with a total ban in place.Researchers found that 44.8% of the 286 accredited obstetrics and gynecology residency programs are in states that are "certain or likely" to ban abortions in the absence of Roe.
"Therefore, of 6,007 current obstetric and gynecology residents, 2,638 are certain or likely to lack access to in-state abortion training," the UCSF study states. By comparison, in 2020, 92% of OB-GYN residents reported having access to some sort of abortion training.Abortion training is "a component of obstetrics and gynecology residency required for accreditation," per the researchers.found that half of medical schools in the U.S. include no formal training or offer a single lecture on abortion-related topics.
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