{"id":285460,"date":"2023-02-18T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=285460"},"modified":"2023-02-17T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T00:40:36","slug":"university-washington-expanding-abortion-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/university-washington-expanding-abortion-training\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Washington expanding abortion training program to include non-physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University of Washington in Seattle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2022\/03\/24\/university-of-washington-forces-all-med-students-to-learn-how-to-kill-babies-in-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mandated<\/a> last March that all medical students learn to commit abortions, and any applications from prospective students who refused to partake were rejected. Less than a year after that decision, the university is now expanding its abortion training program, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/health\/new-uw-program-aims-to-expand-training-for-abortion-providers\/?utm_source=referral&amp;utm_medium=mobile-app&amp;utm_campaign=ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seattle Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The expansion is an apparent response to the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s June ruling in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization<\/em> to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and aims to increase the number of advanced practice clinicians in the United States who are permitted to commit abortions. This is part of a broader movement by pro-abortion activists to allow non-physicians to carry out abortions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UW ACTIONS (Abortion Care Training Incubator for Outstanding Nurse Scholars) is a newly launched program that offers online courses on how to open an abortion business, abortion history, and politics, as well as in-person training at abortion facilities. Until recently, most states limited the practice of abortions to licensed physicians. However, with the reversal of <em>Roe<\/em>, pro-abortion activists are calling for expanded access to abortion training for a broader range of clinicians beyond doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-283198 size-large\" 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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Monica McLemore, a longtime midwife and interim director of UW\u2019s Center for Anti-Racism in Nursing, Washington state expects to experience a surge of out-of-state women seeking abortions. Some neighboring states, including Idaho, have passed laws protecting all preborn children from abortion with few exceptions. Washington is expecting to see a nearly 400% increase in abortion patients, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/states-with-abortion-rights-surge-of-out-of-state-patients-and-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">according<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The university is anticipated to grant its ultimate approval of the program later this month, which has already secured $300,000 in donations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UW has gained notoriety for its staunch pro-abortion stance. In 2018, UW faced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/taxpayer-fetal-tissue-names-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">controversy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when university researchers were exposed for trying to keep their identities a secret after using public funds to purchase the body parts of aborted babies for research purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/research-really-shows-abortions-physical-risks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">many risks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> associated with abortion, including infection, hemorrhaging, damage to the cervix and uterus, scar tissue formation, harm to the uterine lining, and even death. According to a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3673521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013 study<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0from the Ryan Residency abortion training program at the University of California San Francisco, abortions committed by non-physicians are more likely to end in complications than those committed by physicians \u2014 meaning this push from the abortion industry to allow non-physicians to commit abortions puts women\u2019s health and lives at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, in a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellaonline.com\/ArticlesP\/art16249.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2016 article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Bella Online, abortionist Dr. Toub revealed the dangers. He said, \u201cI used to tell residents that anyone can teach a monkey how to operate; the real skill in surgery involves clinical judgment. The same is true of surgical abortion\u2014it is feasible for nonclinicians to do it, but without question the risks are greater in terms of infection, incomplete abortion and uterine perforation, and even more importantly, it\u2019s not clear to me how effectively those complications would be recognized and managed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"appeal-container\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/future-of-abortion\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=minibomb&amp;src=v1\">Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than\u00a0<b>3,000 moms and dads with the truth about abortion this year?<\/b>\u00a0Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Washington in Seattle\u00a0mandated last March that all medical students learn to commit abortions, and any applications from prospective students who refused to partake were rejected. Less than a year after that decision, the university is now expanding its abortion training program, according to the Seattle Times.\u00a0 The expansion is an apparent response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":92655,"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>University of Washington expanding abortion training program to include non-physicians<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The University of Washington, which forces all medical students to commit abortions, is expanding its abortion training program to include nursing students.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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