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Personal beliefs have no room in the classroom in a teaching facility, when it blocks learning. Women make up a vast majority of the population, undermining a womans health or rights is intolerable. People who believe in pro-life want all children to be born, but they don't want to come out of their pockets to raise them. There are too many unwanted children, to bring more into the world is ridiculous.

This is a down right shame!
Drs. should care and be taught how to do a proper procedure/s in abortion and to best NOT to get to that end they should be taught, at least, the best in contracetive use for the female patient and male patient.
A Drs. obligation is to the patient NOT a relgious group!

Whoa, what happened to the medical student who threatened to shoot another med student over this issue? The threatening student should have been expelled and arrested. As for offending catholic students, my God- these students are adults, they've all completed college. Presumably they're going to work in settings where they'll meet people of all faiths and races. These medical schools shouldn't "baby" these adult students. They ought to be teaching them sensitivity towards ALL human beings. No wonder so many of us have no faith in today's "healthcare system". I escort patients at a reproductive health clinic. Our patients have to run the gauntlet of angry "Catholic" and "Evangelical" "Christians" who scream at them, call them nasty names, stereotype by race, etc. The politicians have no backbone when it comes to the "A" word. They won't demand buffer zones for patients. We regularly comment that if it was a male sexual enhancement clinic, our legislators would have long ago passed laws prohibiting protestors from standing right next to the clinc calling the MALE patients dirty nasty names. Shame on these medical schools for not preparing their students to provide comprehensive care to women.

While I really understand your sentiments, I think it is important to make a few points. For starters, many people don't realize that an abortion is an identical procedure to something that all obgyns are trained to do, and that is a D & C which is done for a miscarriage. When a woman is found to be pregnant and the fetus has no heartbeat, the identical procedure to an abortion is often necessary. Every obgyn is trained to do this, and it is no different than the performance of an elective abortion. So to say that obgyns are not being trained in abortion care is somewhat disingenuous.
Furthermore, although everyone needs to be trained it is also important not to force medical students or residents to participate in something that they find to be morally wrong. While you may disagree with their beliefs, I think you must respect the fact that some people disagree with you in principal. In my medical school, University of Illinois, we had a cardiovascular lab where we experimented on live dogs. Students that objected on moral grounds were not required to participate. Abortion training should be no different. The opportunity for training should be given, but should not be required.