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‘We are failing’: doctors and students in the US look to Mexico for basic abortion training

Apr 09, 2025 | By Carter Sherman in The Guardian
Originally published in The Guardian on April 9, 2025. You can access the original publication here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/doctors-mexico-abortion-training

Featuring Pamela Merrit, MSFC Executive Director.

On paper, it should not be difficult for Dr Ramos to learn to perform abortions. As a family medicine doctor, Ramos works in a specialty that frequently provides the procedure. He lives in a deep-blue state where it is still allowed. And the administrators running Ramos’s residency program – a kind of apprenticeship that US doctors must undergo to become full-fledged physicians – support Ramos’s desire to learn how to do it.

But over the course of his three-year-long residency, Ramos is guaranteed just three days’ worth of training at Planned Parenthood. Residents get to participate in only a handful of abortions…

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