{"id":283262,"date":"2023-01-13T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=283262"},"modified":"2023-01-12T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:24:46","slug":"houston-ob-gyn-residents-texas-end-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/houston-ob-gyn-residents-texas-end-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston OB-GYN residents go outside Texas to learn how to end human lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Texas universities are sending medical students out of state to learn abortion procedures.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/health\/article\/Texas-abortion-laws-Houston-OBGYN-programs-17681461.php\">Houston Chronicle<\/a>, Texas state obstetrician-gynecology residency programs used to have young doctors and residents do rotations at the local Planned Parenthood to gain experience terminating the lives of preborn babies. After the passage of Texas\u2019 pro-life law in 2021, however, that is no longer an option. The solution? Send them out of state.<\/p>\n<p>Schools are hiding behind an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) guideline \u2014 written in 1994 but never enforced \u2014 that requires programs to offer OBGYN students opportunities to perform hands-on abortions. The guidance was recently updated in 2022 after the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision that overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. ACGME statements made to the Chronicle suggest that the guidance could become a problem for pro-life medical students in the future. The strong implication seemed to be that as long as a school had an out-of-state travel program or was making \u201cprogress\u201d towards providing opportunities for hands-on abortions for residents, it would not be adversely affected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><b><i>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pro-life programs, however, might not be so lucky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA single citation is unlikely to affect a program\u2019s accreditation status, provided the program demonstrates progress in addressing the issue,\u201d the group said, according to the Chronicle. \u201cThe ACGME recognizes these are challenging times with complex issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the change say that miscarriage training <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/news-insights\/how-repeal-roe-v-wade-will-affect-training-abortion-and-reproductive-health\">doesn\u2019t provide enough \u201cvolume\u201d<\/a> for residents to learn thoroughly enough, and claim that it could be a problem when doing emergency miscarriage management, or when providing a \u201cnecessary\u201d abortion to save a mother\u2019s life. However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/aaplog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AAPLOG-Myth-v-Fact_v5.pdf\">AAPLOG explains<\/a>, induced abortion is not health care and is never medically necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The AAPLOG has <a href=\"https:\/\/aaplog.org\/mandatory-abortion-training-for-residents\/\">strongly objected<\/a> to the ACGME \u201crequirement\u201d both past and present for residents and medical students to directly and intentionally take the lives of preborn babies. In a state where abortion is banned, AAPLOG argues that miscarriage management should be sufficient training, since D&amp;C procedures are performed both for miscarriage management when the baby has died, and also on a living baby in an abortion. (The latter is an induced abortion, and the former is <em>not<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACGME\u2019s requirements forcing training in elective abortion are coercive and discriminatory against pro-life residents and medical institutions,\u201d said CEO of AAPLOG, Dr. Donna Harrison, in a statement,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gooznews.substack.com\/p\/collateral-damage-from-the-dobbs\">according to journalist Merrill Goozner<\/a>. \u201cThis coercion is for no medical reason whatsoever, as OB-GYN residents have ample training emptying a uterus at any gestational age when the baby has already died in miscarriages. It is entirely unnecessary and violates conscience rights to refuse certification to medical institutions whose values do not allow for the intentional killing of preborn human beings for no medical reason,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, while some of the schools \u2013 such as Baylor and Houston Methodist \u2013 are private institutions, the participation of publicly funded state schools may be a concern to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019 oldest medical school, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), is a public university and is one of the schools mentioned in the Chronicle\u2019s article arranging out-of-state travel for medical residents. According to the Chronicle, sending two students to Oregon to commit abortions incurs the following costs: \u201c$5,216 for housing, $1,689 for airfare and airport transportation, $240 for parking and $370 for training permits.\u201d While a national initiative to support \u201cfamily planning\u201d training called the Ryan Residency Training Program pays for $1500 per student, the remaining $6,000 comes from the university, which is in addition to the up to nine months of planning by staff and administrators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas universities are sending medical students out of state to learn abortion procedures. According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, Texas state obstetrician-gynecology residency programs used to have young doctors and residents do rotations at the local Planned Parenthood to gain experience terminating the lives of preborn babies. After the passage of Texas\u2019 pro-life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":255903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Houston OB-GYN residents go outside Texas to learn how to end human lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Proponents of the change say that miscarriage training doesn\u2019t provide enough \u201cvolume\u201d for residents to learn thoroughly enough.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/houston-ob-gyn-residents-texas-end-lives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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