[ELS]

But there is absolutely no sound medical rationale for this new training mandate. It is a purely political hammer intended to bully residents into abandoning their ethical principles.

[Askel5]

Programs need to set expectations of resident participation in routine abortion training so that trainees who exercise a conscience clause provision to opt out become the exception and not the rule

In other words ... "we shall ostracize them".

I do believe it when President Bush (I and II) and their pro-abort wives state they wish to "reduce" abortions. The only critical thing is to keep abortion legal.

After that, it's just a matter of convincing the right folks to do the "right thing" ... primarily the poor and anyone whose kid is somehow imperfect and posing the potential to be a special burden to his parents.

After all, abortion underlies not only the right to have a child when and how a person pleases but also the right to have a perfect child.

[Coleus]

Yep, it's all about politics and the left-wing, baby-killing agenda. Bloomberg should be more concerned with the rising crim rate and budget fiasco rather than the curriculum of the medical schools. Why isn't he mandating nutritional and alternative medicine? Can't get many votes for that.