Change in US abortion law threatens training for obstetrician-gynaecologists

Nearly half the residents in US obstetrics and gynaecology training programs have problems learning essential skills because over half of the nation’s 50 states ban or severely limit abortion.1The situation follows a ruling in June by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, the decision that legalised abortion.2The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has long required obstetrics and gynaecology residency programmes to include abortion training. The Association of American Medical Colleges, which accredits residency programmes, has re-affirmed its policy that they must include abortion training.Jack Resneck, Jr, president of the American Medical Association, said the court’s decision “opens a deep political rift between states over access to reproductive health services that places sound medical practice and the health of patients at risk. State restrictions that intrude on the practice of medicine and interfere with the patient-physician relationship leave millions with little or no access to reproductive…
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