Unintended consequences: Abortion training in the years after Roe v Wade

S. Aksel, L. Fein, E. Ketterer, E. Young and L. Backus

American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 3, 404-407

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, andphysicians 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.

Keywords: article; education; female; human; legal abortion; legal aspect; physician; politics; pregnancy; reproductive rights; statistics; United States, Abortion, Legal; Female; Humans; Physicians; Politics; Pregnancy; Reproductive Rights; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301152

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