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There are some easy answers. As the death rate of abortion doctors sky-rockets, young doctors may be thinking of self-preservation. Others may have religious or ethical issues with abortion and thus choose not to perform them...
...regardless of whether doctors prefer to perform abortions, a procedural knowledge should be part of any doctor's repertoire. After all, as older doctors explain in the article, safe abortions can prevent women from taking desperate measures, such as illegal and dangerous abortions. Knowledge of life-saving techniques is a doctor's job. Though each doctor will personally decide what to specialize in and whether to perform abortions, it should be expected that in a pinch they can perform most common surgical procedures...
What is the policy on teaching abortion at Harvard Medical School? Undergraduates who are applying to medical school may not be concerned whether they will earn how to perform abortions. But for those of us who are interested in upholding the law, this is a crucial issue Bill Schaller, a public information officer at the Medical School, explains that the required Obstetrics-Gynecology rotation includes training in abortion, which is a "legal and necessary" technique...
Though Harvard does include abortion as part of the regular required courses, the loophole of "concerns" makes me concerned. Whether doctors feel uncomfortable performing abortions, and whatever they may choose to specialize in, it should be expected that someone who has attended medical school will know how to perform common and relatively simple surgical procedures...
...order to protect a right to choice, doctors must know abortion techniques. If nobody knows how to perform safe abortions, what the law says is irrelevant, and my complacency is certainly ill-advised...