The barrier to abortion is politics.

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Ann Furedi

چکیده

To cite: Furedi A. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:5–7. TWO STATEMENTS BY 100 USA PROFESSORS In 1972, 100 American professors of obstetrics published a statement setting out the benefits they believed legalised abortion could deliver for their nation and for its women. Forty years later, the next generation of professors have weighed their colleagues’ expectations against their own professional experience, and state: “We have had 40 years of medical progress but have witnessed political regression that the 100 professors did not anticipate”. The 100 American professors writing today document a barrage of policy and legal assaults that have impeded the development of the abortion services that their mentors strived to achieve. Abortion per se, they conclude, is no cause for clinical concern – but political opposition to abortion is. Conservative resistance to abortion has, according to the authors of the statement published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and reprinted in Contraception, brought threats to: the autonomy of the doctor-patient relationship; evidence-based medical practice; the training of students and residents; and, ultimately, the health of patients. In short, insofar as abortion is a problem today, it is a matter of its politics, not its practice.

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