Politico January 7, 2025
Carmen Paun and Erin Schumaker

with Alice Miranda Ollstein

EXAM ROOM

Medical students at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are developing artificial intelligence tools to help them learn how to provide all-options pregnancy counseling without putting themselves or their patients at risk of prosecution under the state’s abortion ban.

Abortion bans across more than a third of the country have upended medical education and training — particularly for aspiring OB-GYNs — hampering the ability of thousands of students and residents to learn not only the surgical techniques required for abortions and miscarriage management but also softer skills like options counseling.

Additional laws in Texas and some other states allow prosecutions of anyone suspected of “aiding and abetting” an abortion — a vaguely...

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