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A recent article in the New York Times highlighted the difficulties OBGyn residents will have obtaining abortion training in the new post Dobbs world.  When I did my Ob/Gyn residency in 1984-88 abortion training was STANDARD.  We learned to help women having vaginal deliveries, perform Cesarean Sections, do laporascopic surgeries,...

Medical abortions--also known as "the pill abortion" now represent 50% of abortions performed before 11 weeks of pregnancy.  The other 50% are still procedural abortions--also known as a suction D&C or surgical abortion.  Terminations after 11 weeks especially those in the second trimester cannot be achieved with the Medical abortion--it...

In the past Pro Choice candidates couched their support for Abortion Rights without ever using the word "Abortion".  They had to--the general public wanted the right to terminate unintended or dangerous pregnancies but the word had become toxic.  We, the Pro-Choice, Reproductive Rights community, voted for them anyway--they may have...

Whew!!!!  Kathy Hochul was elected Governor of New York State!  This win is terrifically important for so many reasons--Abortion Rights is only one of them.  For many years Democratic politicians reliably defended Abortion Rights but were criticized for shying away from the word "Abortion" and portraying abortion as a tragedy...

Overnight abortion access in the United States vanished with the Dobbs decision which overturned Roe v. Wade.  In many states, old antiabortion laws were reinstated or new ones like the "heartbeat law" were passed virtually outlawing abortion.  Ohio, close to us in Buffalo, NY, was one of those states. We...