Fear of violence prompted one San Luis Obispo obstetrician to stop performing abortions some years ago. I think that is a good sign. They think it is a bad one. As a result, abortions are increasingly unavailable to American women, and this is why the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is going to require schools to teach abortion. This is strange.
Abortion is an elective procedure.
It is not health care. I guess one could say it is like fixing a hare-lip or something, in one sense. I am not reducing the moral consequence of abortion to fixing a hare-lip, I'm just simply saying that from a medical standpoint it is elective. It is not directly related to health care, so it would not seem to be the most important thing on the agenda of medical schools, which have their hands full teaching things that do relate to health care. It strikes me that there is a little bit of politicizing going on here.