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...Gienapp says the policy was reworded in response to a lawsuit against the ACGME by a hospital claiming the regulations were too vague. The steady drop in the number of abortions performed in hospitals, despite continued demand for the procedure, also led to the change, he says...
...Gienapp says the policy has nothing to do with the controversy now surrounding President Clinton's nominee for surgeon general Dr. Henry W. Foster, who has acknowledged performing several abortions during his 30-year career...
While the new policy may not affect Harvard, Gienapp says implementation of the regulations has met resistance elsewhere...
...Gienapp says the council has also received several letters from medical students voicing their support of the new policy...
...ACGME, Gienapp says, adopted the policy to make abortion a safer procedure through better training of physicians...