Yale School of Medicine Requires Abortion Training for Ob/gyn Residents

LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/23/06 | Peter J. Smith

[wagglebee]

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, August 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ob/gyn residents at Yale’s School of Medicine must undergo training in abortion procedures in a required residency program established by Planned Parenthood’s Connecticut branch (PPC).

Second year ob/gyn residents will have to complete two four-week rotations with PPC for training in abortion techniques such as vacuum suction, medical abortions, and other “family planning” services in a program entitled Family Planning/Ambulatory Surgery.

"Yale is very satisfied with the experience and training the residents are receiving at PPC and are especially happy with the number of patients the residents see," said Mary Bawza, chief operating officer of PPC to Planned Parenthood’s Choice! magazine.

Although the course is required in the residency curriculum, ob/gyn residents do not have to participate in any abortions if they sign a paper that states they believe abortion is against their “personal/religious” beliefs. However, residents cannot opt of learning the theoretical applications of the program, including techniques related to still-birth, miscarriage, and complications related to abortion. Students also cannot opt out of performing ultrasounds on women intending to have abortions.
 
PPC established the course last year as part a frantic campaign to replace the imploding and aging population of abortionists, whose numbers have declined 37% since the 1980s. Although worried about their population decline, PPC seems oddly determined to spread their abortion practices deeper into the heartland of the United States claiming studies indicate 87% of US counties and 97% of rural counties have no abortionists.

Comments to Yale may be sent to Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and the department’s Residency Program Coordinator:

Charles Lockwood, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
chairobgyn@yale.edu

Patti Johnson, Residency Program Coordinator
patricia.m.johnson@yale.edu

[RSteyn]

Do you really know everything?

[Protagoras]

Do you really know everything?

I know you are a troll and your time here is most probably short. And you just got here too! At least this time. It a certanity that you have been previously banned.

[RSteyn]

>The students can say, "Oh look at that baby! You want to kill your poor child?"

All the while perfoming the ultrasound.<

Bring on the violins...there is increasing evidence that our personalities are determined in no small part by genetics...so, why should a raped woman want to generate a rapist's child??? And could you tell them they had to, to their face?

[MortMan]

Although the course is required in the residency curriculum, ob/gyn residents do not have to participate in any abortions if they sign a paper that states they believe abortion is against their “personal/religious” beliefs.

Actually, this says that they have to specifically opt-out of helping to perform abortions. Those who do not do so will, therefore, assist in them.

[RSteyn]

>I know you are a troll and your time here is most probably short. And you just got here too! At least this time. It a certanity that you have been previously banned.

...interesting that one of your unpleasant posts was just pulled...

[MortMan]

The sad people who believe they have the right and duty to impose their religious values about abortion on the whole of society...not unlike the way Muslims want to impose shariah law...

What is truly sad is that you insist on comparing anyone who has a fundamental objection to the murder of unborn children to adherents of sharia law - where murder is often condoned in the name of "honor". There are many people who understand that the pro-life crowd is not the group that is forcing their will on people. Instead, it is the pro-abortion crowd, of which Planned Parenthood is a proud member, who have foisted their twisted lack of morality on everyone else.

PP, after all, receives a large amount of taxpayer subsidy, with which they perform abortions. Therefore, this abominable organization (with its racist roots) is forcing anyone with a moral objection to abortion to pay for the murder of these innocent babies anyway.

You made a good point about not liking being called a DUmmie because you disagreed. And then you followed up with a series of vicious ad-hominems just like most DUmmies would do. Make up your mind, FRiend. If you don't want to be called a duck, stop quacking.

[SmoothTalker]

Disgusting. I can't understand how even a supporter of abortion could think this mandated recidency is ethical.

[Protagoras]

So what was your screen name when you were banned last time?

[RSteyn]

>If you don't want to be called a duck, stop quacking.<

Let's see...compelling people to deliver babies they don't want, sometimes for medical reasons...isn't compelling them because that is what you want...not telling them what to do IS compelling them, because you say so.

Reality doesn't work that way.

[wagglebee]

If this is "nothing new" and it's "time to move on," then why has Planned Parenthood just now started the program in conjunction with the medical school?

If you read further, you will see that they admit that they are working to train abortionists.

[MichiganConservative]

.compelling people to deliver babies they don't want, sometimes for medical reasons.

Who suggested that? I think you are just making stuff up. I also think you really need to seek professional healp about your numerous issues.

[RSteyn]

>compelling people to deliver babies they don't want, sometimes for medical reasons.
Who suggested that? I think you are just making stuff up. I also think you really need to seek professional healp about your numerous issues.

If abortions are illegal, does that not compell people to have babies????

That's how it worked in the biology and physiology courses I took.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You don't care to even attempt to refute it? Come on. We'll all waiting, ears perked.

[MortMan]

You need to read up on the history of Roe v. Wade. This court case that trumped virtually every democracy-based approach to defining whether abortion should be legal by discovering an unwritten penumbra emanating from the SCOTUS' fertile imaginations is the ultimate coercion. Further, the public funding of abortion is taxation for murder, regardless of one's willingness to condone or condemn.

Besides, you obviously discount the fact that the only 100% effective birth control method is abstinence. Even abortionists sometimes screw up and one gets out alive. The "choice" is made when the woman and man decide to do the deed. Cases of rape (real rape - where threat of force or actual force is in play) and incest are issues that don't fit neatly into this definition of choice, but they are hardly the majority of abortions, are they? If you want to debate these corner cases, start by taking a position on them and defending it logically, and not by attacking anyone who disagrees.

I would introduce you to further reality, FRiend, but it is obvious that you prefer the region of that Egyptian river.

Oh - and just so you don't continue to misconstrue my last post - the "quacking" commentary was in regard to your personal attacks (that's what ad hominem means) on the other posters. You were slightly more original than most, using islamofacism instead of nazism, but just as ineffective.

[MichiganConservative]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the ones who are just walking down the street and shazam! out of the blue they're just pregnant all of a sudden.

[Protagoras]

Let's see... sometimes for medical reasons...isn't compelling them because that is what you want...not telling them what to do IS compelling them, because you say so.

Only a liberal could change murdering their children into "compelling people to deliver babies they don't want".

I'm going to miss you, you are a poster child.

[shhrubbery!]

there is increasing evidence that our personalities are determined in no small part by genetics...so, why should a raped woman want to generate a rapist's child???

The woman on the right was conceived as a result of rape.

The woman on the left is her mother.

(If you'd like to know more about their story, google "Lee Ezell." That's the mother's name.)

To answer your question: There are only two options, both very distressing, in the rare situation of pregancy caused by rape :

(1) kill the child, or
(2) go ahead and bear the child.

If women pregnant by rape were given kindly counseling and assistance, some, like Lee Ezell, would choose life -- especially if they knew there were many couples eager to adopt the baby-- over the terrible burden of going through life knowing they had killed their children.

[Protagoras]

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[wagglebee]

I have personally known women who were raped, became pregnant and kept the baby. But that is beside the point, this is an absurd argument that has been put forward by the pro-death movement. The number of women we are talking about is totally insignificant to the total number of abortions. Less than one percent of rape victims become pregnant, even if all of them choose to murder their baby (and let's try to remember that it's THEIR baby too, not just the rapist's), we still have 99% of 1 MILLION plus abortions a year that they pro death movement cannot justify.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC079.HTM
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
http://www.mccl.org/abortion_statistics_mn.htm

[CholeraJoe]

Abruption, eclampsia, malignancy

Not to mention fetal demise and fetal malformations incompatible with life such as anencephaly, renal agenesis, and several of the trisomies.