학술논문
Unintended Consequences: Abortion Training in the Years After Roe v Wade.
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Article
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Subject
*ABORTION laws
*AGE distribution
*OUTPATIENT medical care
*EMPLOYEES
*EXPERIENCE
*GYNECOLOGY
*HEALTH services accessibility
*LABOR demand
*OBSTETRICS
*PROFESSIONS
*WOMEN'S rights
*SOCIAL attitudes
*PHYSICIANS' attitudes
STUDY & teaching of medicine
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0090-0036
Abstract
The US Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v Wade decision had clear implications for American women's reproductive rights and physician ability to carry out patient choices. Its effect on physician abortion training was less apparent. In an effort to increase patient access to abortions after Roe, provision shifted from hospitals to nonhospitalclinics. However, these procedures and patients were taken out of the medicaleducationrealm, and physicians became vulnerable to intimidation. The consequent provider shortage created an unexpected barrier to abortion access. Medical Students for Choice was founded in 1993 to increase abortion-training opportunities for medical students and residents. Its mission ensures that motivated medical students will learn and a growing number of physicians will commit to comprehensive abortion provision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]