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Commentary: To truly protect abortion access, New York must invest in training
Mar 03, 2025 | By A. Taylor Walker, Rose Mitchell and Sarah McNeilly in Times Union
By MSFC Board Member Sarah McNeilly, medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
As abortion providers, we are committed to ensuring that patients receive the care they need and deserve. And that means ensuring that providers are able to obtain the necessary training.
This year alone, more than 2,000 doctors in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs will be denied abortion training at their institutions. Unfortunately, such training has never been a universal guarantee, even for ob-gyns. In New York, a state with some of the most abortion-protective laws in the nation, about a third of ob-gyn residency programs still do not provide robust access to abortion training…
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