According to a report from Campus Reform, the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) has been holding four retreats this summer to train medical students in how to commit abortions.

Key Takeaways:

• The American Medical Student Association is funding four abortion training retreats this summer.

• Students must agree that abortion is "essential to comprehensive health care."

• They will receive pro-abortion advocacy training in addition to training in manual vacuum aspiration abortion, the abortion pill, and 'self-managed abortion.'

The Details:

The AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes held four of the abortion training retreats in Asheville, North Carolina, this summer. The final retreat will be held August 20-23. In order to participate, medical students must align with the AMSA's view on abortion.

On its website, AMSA states that it "believes reproductive health services are essential to comprehensive health care, and we support full access to the entire range of reproductive services. We believe legal, safe, voluntary abortions should be available to all who need them, regardless of how much they earn, who they work for, or what state they live in." It gives medical students pro-abortion "advocacy training, and hands-on skill building" while asking students to "think critically about abortion-related education." It further states:

AMSA also believes both Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) and Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs should offer abortion education and training — especially Family Medicine & OB/GYN residency programs.

The "highly-skilled, culturally sensitive" students will attend the training retreat for free to build a "diverse physician workforce." In addition, they are offering scholarships to cover travel, meals, training supplies, and transportation to the airport.

The training involves:

• a workshop during which the students use a manual vacuum aspiration kit on a papaya

• "values-clarification training"

• the impact of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade

• teaching on the abortion pill

• teaching on 'self-managed' abortion

• pro-abortion advocacy rhetoric

• networking

• identifying "reproductive freedom champions"

The Bottom Line:

Doctors need not intentionally and directly kill a baby to save a mother. Induced abortions utilize drugs and procedures to intentionally end the preborn child's life.

Treatment for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature rupture of membranes, preeclampsia, and medical emergencies are not induced abortions. Preterm delivery and emergency C-section procedures can end pregnancies in emergencies without intentionally ending children's lives.

Campus Reform, the original source for this story, reached out to AMSA for comment but did not receive a response.