More medical students are seeking abortion training in New Mexico because of Dobbs

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | June 23, 2023 | Susan Dunlap

[CedarDave]

Medical residents from other states are receiving instruction at the University of New Mexico Center for Reproductive Health in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

One way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade last year, has impacted abortion care across the U.S. is in medical training. Obstetrics and gynecology students studying in states where abortion is banned can no longer receive integrated abortion care training into their years of study. Dr. Jody Steinauer, director of the University of California-San Francisco Bixby Center ... said that OB-GYN medical students now have to travel to states — such as New Mexico — where abortion is legal to study abortion care.

“Normally, an OB-GYN provider would receive integrated abortion care training over the years of the student’s studies. Now, medical students in states where abortion is banned are only receiving about four weeks of training,” Steinauer said.

Dr. Amber Truehart, medical director of the UNM Center for Reproductive Health, said the center is “getting a variety of people looking for abortion training.”

Truehart said medical residents studying at medical schools in states where abortion is banned are now coming to the UNM Center for Reproductive Health for a one-month rotation to receive the training. Truehart said this is happening nationally in other states where abortion remains legal.

She said, in addition, students who are not just OB-GYN residents are applying to the UNM Center for Reproductive Health for abortion training. Those students include psychiatric residents and nurse midwives.

Truehart said psychiatric providers already provide counseling and prescribe medications to help their patients. Medication abortion is a two-step regime regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA loosened some of its restrictions around prescribing the first of the two drugs, mifepristone, earlier this year.

[CedarDave]

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[Dr. Sivana]

Not ideal, but better than major medical schools like Yale trying to force their obgyns to perform an abortion or two as part of their internship.

[Tell It Right]

Makes one wonder how the NAZIs received their certifications for running gas chambers.

Rolf: Fritz, did you get your certification in Hessen?
Fritz: No, Rolf. Hessen banned gassing. I had to travel to Bremen to get my gassing cert.
Rolf: Oh, the bigots in Hessen!

[fidelis]

New Mexico solidifies it’s place as a haven for the culture of death. It isn’t just that the state is liberal, but it is a major nexus and mecca for New Age (pagan) beliefs. There is without a doubt a connection.

[\/\/ayne]

They should review the Abortion Procedures: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Trimesters by former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino who explains abortion procedures video before they go down that road.

For educational resources and to learn more about Dr. Levatino, they can visit https://www.abortionprocedures.com.

[allendale]

The Josef Mengele Institute at the University of New Mexico.! Teach them how to kill.

[JimRed]

It means he wants a straight female gymnast.

[JimRed]

Oops! Replied on wrong thread!

[skr]

Don’t they already have to know abortion procedures that have to do with saving a woman’s life? What else do they need to know, body part harvesting?

[No name given]

Indeed, it’s just sick, evil and depraved!

[zeestephen]

New Mexico is 50% Hispanic - the highest percentage in the USA.

Apparently, Hispanics are not as socially Conservative as the Wall Street Journal and the RINOs claim.

About 10 years ago, Albuquerque (37% Hispanic) had a local initiative election to ban third term abortions.

The initiative was defeated by almost 60% of the vote.