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Abortion care training is banned in some states. A new bill could help OB-GYNs get it
Jun 15, 2023 | By Pien Huang in NPR
Sami Stroebel, an aspiring obstetrician-gynecologist, started medical school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison last summer within weeks of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
“I sat there and was like, ‘How is this going to change the education that I’m going to get and how is this going to change my experience wanting to provide this care to patients in the future?'”
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat from Wisconsin, has an answer to that question…
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