Posted on 08/23/2006 4:15:19 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, August 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ob/gyn residents at Yale’s School of Medicine must undergo training in abortion procedures in a required residency program established by Planned Parenthood’s Connecticut branch (PPC).
Second year ob/gyn residents will have to complete two four-week rotations with PPC for training in abortion techniques such as vacuum suction, medical abortions, and other “family planning” services in a program entitled Family Planning/Ambulatory Surgery.
"Yale is very satisfied with the experience and training the residents are receiving at PPC and are especially happy with the number of patients the residents see," said Mary Bawza, chief operating officer of PPC to Planned Parenthood’s Choice! magazine.
Although the course is required in the residency curriculum, ob/gyn residents do not have to participate in any abortions if they sign a paper that states they believe abortion is against their “personal/religious” beliefs. However, residents cannot opt of learning the theoretical applications of the program, including techniques related to still-birth, miscarriage, and complications related to abortion. Students also cannot opt out of performing ultrasounds on women intending to have abortions.
PPC established the course last year as part a frantic campaign to replace the imploding and aging population of abortionists, whose numbers have declined 37% since the 1980s. Although worried about their population decline, PPC seems oddly determined to spread their abortion practices deeper into the heartland of the United States claiming studies indicate 87% of US counties and 97% of rural counties have no abortionists.
Comments to Yale may be sent to Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and the department’s Residency Program Coordinator:
Charles Lockwood, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
chairobgyn@yale.edu
Patti Johnson, Residency Program Coordinator
patricia.m.johnson@yale.edu
>Anyone who writes to a Yale professor suggesting that future obstetrical surgeons not be trained in an essential procedure is an ignoramus.<
Well, yes, they are, but for some people, maternal death is trivial next to the possibility of a live birth. They'd be perfectly willing to stand aside and watch a woman die, if there was any chance at all of a live birth.
If you don't believe in abortion, don't practice it.
The fact that this is REQUIRED is very disturbing. This is like having a doctor train in methods of assisted suicide.
If I were an aging baby-boomer I'd sure be keeping an eye out for when-notice not "if"-they start teaching euthanasia....
That's a terrible argument.
"If you like Jews, don't work at Auschwitz"
I don't think that person has tubal pregnancies in mind. That is a medical exception.
If your wife were bleeding to death, and the very small baby had to be removed, would you not want an obstetrical surgeon who had been taught to do the procedure?
Assisted suicide is a poor choice of words.
Have you ever seen a death run by a doctor who is afraid to use morphine, or worse who doesn't know how? A doctor who has never heard of levsyn? A doctor who can't suppress the cough of a cancer closing off the trachea?
Teaching doctors how to use medicine even at the end of life is grossly neglected, because of misplaced fears of prosecution and lawsuits.
It's true that the same tools can be used to kill people, but so can scalpels and anesthetics.
This is just the first step. PP is not happy with allowing residents to opt out. Performing abortions will become mandatory if there is no outcry at this step.
I very much understand your point there. I've seen doctors who don't understand and can't treat chronic pain. If a few vicodin over a few days doesn't fix it they are completely lost.
I think it is less than 1% of all abortions.
I think they need to change the name of the procedure to...something like...saving the life of the mother?
"partial birth abortion" is entirely a different issue than having a surgeon trained in properly removing the baby in order to save the mothers life.
I honestly think this entire thing has been blown totally out of proportion.
Last I heard, Yale was a private school.
Vile. I've read before that "not enough" doctors want to perform abortions any more; big concern for the death promoters.
These people are not right.
Otherwise PP wouldn't have gotten involved in this.
They're about as transparent as you.
I've never in my life seen such a position advocated, whether in speech or in print. Please provide some links or documentation.
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