^3000 Sign Up For On Line Abortion Class

[Luddly Neddite]

More Than 3 000 People Have Signed Up For The First Online Abortion Class ThinkProgress

Starting next week, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will commence the first online course on abortion care that’s ever been offered by a U.S. school. The doctor who’s leading the class, which will be offered through the online platform Coursera, estimates that more than 3,000 people have already signed up for it.

Dr. Jody Steinauer, an associate professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and the founder of Medical Students for Choice, decided to create the online class to dedicate more time to a topic that often gets overlooked in medical school.

“Both the clinical and public health contexts of abortion are often excluded from curricula in medicine, nursing, and other health professions,” explains the description of the online class on Coursera’s website. “In this six-week course, over twenty faculty from various institutions and multiple disciplines will place abortion within the context of public health and fill in the gaps left by its exclusion from mainstream curricula in health professions.”

A 2009 study found that a third of medical schools don’t talk about elective abortion at all during the first two pre-clinical years, and even some OB-GYN residency programs only offer abortion training as an outside elective. Partly thanks to the those gaps, this country faces a serious abortion provider shortage. Nearly 60 percent of abortion doctors are over the age of 50, and there aren’t enough new doctors being trained to replace them.

“Under pressure and stigma, more doctors shun abortion,” David Grimes, one of the leading researchers in the field of abortion care, wrote in a now infamous 1992 medical journal article entitled “Clinicians Who Provide Abortions: The Thinning Ranks.”

In an interview with the Daily Beast, Steinauer said she hopes her new course can help get to the heart of that issue. “I think that if we can inspire even a small portion of the people who take the course to take steps in their communities to increase access to safe abortion and decrease stigma about abortion, then we have been totally successful,” Steinauer said

Great idea.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Abortion is murder. Or rather, because it's legal, slaughtering babies.

 

[Mad Scientist]

That's gonna' be a rather short course:

"To prevent infections, boil the coat hanger before use. Any questions?"

 

[Mr. H.]

Liberals love abortions and they're proud of it.

 

[norwegen]

My mom had her abortion the old fashioned way. She carried it to term and called it a mistake.

Ah, the good ol' days.

 

[Mr. H.]

Media Hype Internet's First Abortion Class

 

[Zoom-boing]

decrease stigma about abortion,

I bet they want to decrease it. Fuck them, fuck you, you moron. Abortion kills unborn human beings. It SHOULD be stigmatized.

 

[Darlene]

More Than 3 000 People Have Signed Up For The First Online Abortion Class ThinkProgress

Starting next week, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will commence the first online course on abortion care that’s ever been offered by a U.S. school. The doctor who’s leading the class, which will be offered through the online platform Coursera, estimates that more than 3,000 people have already signed up for it.

Dr. Jody Steinauer, an associate professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and the founder of Medical Students for Choice, decided to create the online class to dedicate more time to a topic that often gets overlooked in medical school.

“Both the clinical and public health contexts of abortion are often excluded from curricula in medicine, nursing, and other health professions,” explains the description of the online class on Coursera’s website. “In this six-week course, over twenty faculty from various institutions and multiple disciplines will place abortion within the context of public health and fill in the gaps left by its exclusion from mainstream curricula in health professions.”

A 2009 study found that a third of medical schools don’t talk about elective abortion at all during the first two pre-clinical years, and even some OB-GYN residency programs only offer abortion training as an outside elective. Partly thanks to the those gaps, this country faces a serious abortion provider shortage. Nearly 60 percent of abortion doctors are over the age of 50, and there aren’t enough new doctors being trained to replace them.

“Under pressure and stigma, more doctors shun abortion,” David Grimes, one of the leading researchers in the field of abortion care, wrote in a now infamous 1992 medical journal article entitled “Clinicians Who Provide Abortions: The Thinning Ranks.”

In an interview with the Daily Beast, Steinauer said she hopes her new course can help get to the heart of that issue. “I think that if we can inspire even a small portion of the people who take the course to take steps in their communities to increase access to safe abortion and decrease stigma about abortion, then we have been totally successful,” Steinauer said

Great idea.

Doctors shun abortion not only for moral reasons but also because of the health problems associated with it.
Abortion Risks A list of major physical complications related to abortion After Abortion
Abortion Risks - Department of Health Hospitals State of Louisiana

ABORTION RISKS AND PROCEDURES


Most Studies Show Abortion Linked To Increased Mental Health Problems After Abortion

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Damn, just damn.

I signed up for the class, but they cancelled it before it came to full term.