The overturning of Roe v. Wade has severely restricted how doctors can access training in abortion care and it’s already having a devastating ripple effect on patients seeking all kinds of reproductive care. Two medical residents in abortion-restricted states fight for training and for the future health of their patients. Plus, the centuries-long battle over who gets access to abortion training in the first place.
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Resources
- Bodies Facebook Group
- Residency training programs:
- Additional training programs:
- Midwest Access Project
- Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health: Training in Abortion Care Residency
- National Abortion Federation: Clinicians in Abortion Care
- Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP)
- Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare (TEACH)
- Experts’ research:
- Additional research and studies:
- Care Post-Roe: documenting cases of poor-quality care since the Dobbs decision. Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), University of California, San Francisco, 2023, Grossman D, Joffe C, Kaller S, Kimport K, Kinsey E, Lerma K, Morris N, White K.
- The State of Reproductive Health in the United States, a report by the Gender Equity Policy Institute
- Midwives in Abortion Care: A Call to Action, by Stephanie Tillman and Amy J Levi