Strategies for convincing ‘ambivalent patients’ Does your patient “believe that life begins at conception and that abortion is an act of murder”? Here’s how to get them to go through with an abortion anyway. The University of California-San Francisco, which focuses on health sciences, offers an “Early Abortion Training Workbook” with the innocuously named chapter “Pregnancy Option Counseling Techniques.” It’s part of the taxpayer-funded university’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, which brags that it has pioneered “new forms of abortion,” expanded the “abortion care workforce” and increased the number of “highly trained” abortionists. Though the pregnancy-options chapter claims that...