Yale's Med School Hosting Planned Parenthood-Backed Abortion Training
by Mary Rettig
September 20, 2006
(AgapePress) - - An official with the Christian Medical & Dental Associations says Planned Parenthood has established an abortion rotation at the Yale School of Medicine.Planned Parenthood of Connecticut sponsors the course which began last year and requires second-year ob-gyn residents to complete two 4-week rotations at Planned Parenthood clinics. But while Dr. Gene Rudd, associate executive director for the CMDA, says the medical students can opt of actually performing abortions, they can also face extreme pressure for having a pro-life stance.
"There's pressure from the program directors that you will participate in this," explains Rudd. "In fact, you're very likely to get blackballed before you even get accepted into a program unless you're willing to participate."
According to Rudd, there is really no need to force students into the abortion clinic environment. "All the techniques that are done with an abortion, up until late abortions ... can be learned by taking care of the routine complications," the Christian physician says. "They're hardly routine when it's happening to you, but they're fairly common complications to early pregnancy."
The CMDA spokesman says while students are able to opt out of performing abortions, they are still required to perform ultrasounds on women who are about to have abortions. He suspects Planned Parenthood is using the rotation program has a recruitment tool for new abortionists.
Mary Rettig, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
