{"id":325622,"date":"2025-02-03T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=325622"},"modified":"2025-02-07T01:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T07:13:49","slug":"future-abortion-obgyn-residency-trained-thousands-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/future-abortion-obgyn-residency-trained-thousands-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The future of abortion’: This OBGYN residency program has trained thousands of doctors to kill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A research article published<\/a> by Journal Contraception, “Twenty Years of the Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning,” published in 2021, revealed that an ever-growing, well-funded abortion training program<\/a> had, at that time, trained more than 7,000 obstetricians and gynecologists in how to intentionally kill preborn human beings by induced abortion, with upwards of 100 residency training programs nationwide since its founding<\/a> in 1999. The article noted that this number of trained residents is “a more than 3-fold increase since the 10-year evaluation<\/strong>” (emphasis added) and that the program had successfully “integrate[d] abortion and family planning into residency training, almost doubling the number of programs since the publication of the Ryan Program\u2019s outcomes at 10 years.”<\/p>\n

Thousands of physicians, who promise to “do no harm,” are training to do very real harm<\/em>\u00a0with the help of this abortion training residency program based at a university that receives billions<\/em> in federal taxpayer dollars toward its research programs.<\/p>\n

Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n
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  • In 20 years, the Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion, based at the Bixby Center for Global Health at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), reportedly trained over 7,000 OBGYNs in how to kill preborn children by abortion. The University of California receives billions each year in federal grants toward research programs.<\/li>\n
  • More than 100 residency programs participate in training, including even some Catholic institutions.<\/li>\n
  • The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which sets standards for residency and fellowship programs, requires abortion training to be provided by medical schools in order for them to achieve accreditation.<\/li>\n
  • A high percentage of these Ryan abortion residency programs partner with freestanding abortion facilities, including Planned Parenthood.<\/li>\n
  • The Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning is supported financially by groups such as the Gates, Hewlett, and Packard Foundations \u2014 but it is the Susan G. Thompson Buffett Foundation (billionaire Warren Buffett) who funds the lion’s share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The residency program,\u00a0named<\/a> after the late Kenneth John Ryan, MD (who once called<\/a> for private funds to experiment on aborted children), was formed after it became clear in the mid-1990s that abortionists were beginning to “age out” \u2014 resulting in what the industry claimed was a shortage of abortion purveyors in the country. An archived page of the Ryan Residency website<\/a> states, “In 1996, recognizing this shortcoming in resident education, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated that ob-gyn residency education must include access to experience with induced abortion.”<\/p>\n

    In 2024, the Ryan Residency website<\/a> claimed there were 118 Ryan Programs across the United States. Out of the 7,000+ residents trained, reportedly about 40% of them now “provide routine abortion care for their patients<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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    Ryan Residency Abortion Training Program at Bixby’s UCSF<\/p><\/div>\n

    According to the 2021 research article, by 2020, 60% “of all university-based or academic allopathic ob-gyn residency programs in the United States and 37% of all allopathic programs had Ryan Programs,” with 14 of them in California alone, according to\u00a0a Healthforce Center at UCSF 2023 report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    Ryan Resident Programs located in California, 2023<\/p><\/div>\n

    The article also noted:<\/p>\n

    The Ryan Program typically funds programs for 2 years, and provides logistical support and expertise for programs to establish a dedicated rotation for training. Ryan Programs average 6 residents (2\u201311) per year, and each clinical rotation typically lasts 1 month. <\/em><\/p>\n

    “Common factors that can delay Ryan Program implementation include hiring faculty to lead the effort, finding collaborating abortion clinics to supplement training, institutional leadership changes, and state politics,” the Ryan website<\/a> states.<\/p>\n

    Ryan Residency trains Catholic OBGYNs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Shockingly, the Ryan program says it is even training residents in Catholic OBGYN residency programs.<\/p>\n

    The Ryan Residency website<\/a> states:<\/p>\n

    The Ryan Program model of training exists at Catholic ob-gyn residency programs. <\/em><\/p>\n

    In one example, residents receive required, opt-out family planning training at a collaborating Planned Parenthood clinic. In another example, a faculty member at an established Ryan Program serves as the Ryan Program director for residents at a nearby Catholic program, training these residents at the academic teaching hospital where she is based.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Catholic residency programs can pose unique challenges in terms of ensuring leadership is supportive and collaborating partners can accommodate resident trainees. Despite this, nearly half of Catholic programs have some level of family planning training. <\/em><\/p>\n

    The Ryan Program is well connected in the faith-based community and can help you explore what options may exist for establishing a Ryan Program with a Catholic residency<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n