The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has been defending abortion in recent lawsuits challenging state restrictions.
Jody Steinauer, director at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, poses for photos at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in San Francisco, Thursday, March 3, 2022. As members of the U.S. Supreme Court mull whether to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has filed a friend-of-the-court brief calling the ban"fundamentally at odds with the provision of safe and essential healthcare.
That helped keep abortion on the margins of mainstream medicine and separate from other OB-GYN care — both physically and in the minds of many Americans. It also made abortion and“I think we’d be in a very different place today if right from the get-go abortion training was established and more OB-GYNs had taken it up. If family medicine had taken it up,” said Carole Joffe, a sociologist with the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health who has researched and written extensively on abortion.
“They had the right motivations and wanted to provide abortions, but they really didn’t know how,” said Philip Darney, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco. Also, many insurance companies didn’t cover abortions, so they needed to be affordable. By specializing, clinics brought in a high volume of abortion patients that kept the costs down and allowed a few doctors to become adept at the procedure.“There’s no question of the huge adverse effect of the movement of abortion into clinics,” Bixby Director Jody Steinauer said. “You go see your OB-GYN if you want to continue the pregnancy and go to a clinic if you want an abortion.
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