Book contents
- Advancing Women’s Health Through Medical Education
- Reviews
- Advancing Women’s Health Through Medical Education
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I Abortion Training: Workforce, Leadership, Social & Political Impact
- Chapter 1 A Systems Approach to Medical Education
- Chapter 2 Training in Contraception and Abortion to Reduce Maternal Mortality
- Chapter 3 The History of Integrated Training in Abortion and Contraception for Obstetrician-Gynecologists in the USA
- Chapter 4 The Medical Community, Abortion and the Crucial Role of Physician Advocacy
- Chapter 5 The US Fellowship in Family Planning as a Community of Practice
- Chapter 6 Building Evidence through Research
- Chapter 7 Impact of Integrated Family Planning Training
- Chapter 8 Conscientious Provision and Objection in Medical Training in the Context of the Abortion Controversy
- Section II Integration of Abortion into Graduate Medical Education
- Section III Family Planning Curricular Design & Implementation
- Section IV Reproductive Health Services & Abortion Training: Global Examples
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - The Medical Community, Abortion and the Crucial Role of Physician Advocacy
from Section I - Abortion Training: Workforce, Leadership, Social & Political Impact
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2021
- Advancing Women’s Health Through Medical Education
- Reviews
- Advancing Women’s Health Through Medical Education
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I Abortion Training: Workforce, Leadership, Social & Political Impact
- Chapter 1 A Systems Approach to Medical Education
- Chapter 2 Training in Contraception and Abortion to Reduce Maternal Mortality
- Chapter 3 The History of Integrated Training in Abortion and Contraception for Obstetrician-Gynecologists in the USA
- Chapter 4 The Medical Community, Abortion and the Crucial Role of Physician Advocacy
- Chapter 5 The US Fellowship in Family Planning as a Community of Practice
- Chapter 6 Building Evidence through Research
- Chapter 7 Impact of Integrated Family Planning Training
- Chapter 8 Conscientious Provision and Objection in Medical Training in the Context of the Abortion Controversy
- Section II Integration of Abortion into Graduate Medical Education
- Section III Family Planning Curricular Design & Implementation
- Section IV Reproductive Health Services & Abortion Training: Global Examples
- Index
- References
Summary
Physician approval or condemnation, advocacy or opposition, to abortion have often determined whether women can avoid the complications of unsafe abortion and, sometimes, early death.In the USA organized medicine’s early opposition to abortion outlawed it.A century later, obstetricians recognized the importance of abortion to public health.They fought to end restrictions, eventually making abortion legal in several states. At first, individual physicians violated restrictive laws, risking jail and their medical licenses.Colleagues soon supported this “civil disobedience” and influenced their professional organizations, first the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists then the American Medical Association, to take political action in support of abortion law reform.In many other nations, physicians advocated locally and through global organizations like WHO and FIGO for safe abortion to reduce maternal mortality.At medical schools, students insisted that their curriculums include contraception and abortion founding Medical Students for Choice to support advocacy for safe abortion despite official opposition at some schools.Those who planned careers in women’s health sought post graduate residency training that included abortion and became political adversaries of abortion bans in conservative states.
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- Advancing Women's Health Through Medical EducationA Systems Approach in Family Planning and Abortion, pp. 48 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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