Reply #39: In my email

[sandnsea]

Here, this is the kind of thing I was talking about, just in my Feminist News email. Most rural people don't realize that they may have doctors who don't even know how to do an abortion and some day their wife or sister or mother may need a medically necessary abortion and the doctors will all stand around and look at each other. This is just as true of doctors as the rest, they aren't required to learn how to do an abortion and many don't because it's one less course to take.

May 15 2006
Half of Health Professionals Receive No Training in Abortion Care
A recent study of advanced practice clinician (APC) training programs, which train nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse-midwives, found that nearly half of such programs fail to offer training in abortion procedures, options counseling, or post-abortion care

http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=9664

And it's actually worse because the methods used in complicated cases aren't always written up in medical journals because the doctors involved don't want to be labelled as abortionists. It's been a sort of handed-down practice. So there's a whole treatment protocol being lost as these older doctors die.