The fact that this is REQUIRED is very disturbing. This is like having a doctor train in methods of assisted suicide.
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.
"The fact that this is REQUIRED is very disturbing. This is like having a doctor train in methods of assisted suicide."
They are NOT required to do an abortion or assist in one. And if you object to being trained at all, don't go to Yale or don't do OB/GYN. No one's forcing anyone.