Could you describe such a situation?
Remember, if you are stating that every OB needs to know how to do this, there must be situations where time is of the essence, where there is no time to refer a woman to a better trained doctor.
When has anyone ever said "My God! If this woman doesn't get an abortion in the next half hour, she's going to die!"
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A simple example is when a pregnancy is in the fallopian tubes. Can't save the baby there, but the mother will die without the abortion. If the woman is unaware of this type of pregnancy (heck, some women even give birth without knowing they are pregnant!), and it goes far enough along, it does become an emergency situation.