On February 14, 1995, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) passed a revised Program Requirement for Residency Education in OB/Gyn which specifically mandated that every OB/Gyn residency training program in the country must include induced abortion training, effective January 1, 1996. They allowed that individual residents may opt out on "moral or religious" grounds. Conservative community hospitals, even Catholic hospitals, may not opt out, but must provide induced abortion training to residents desiring such, even if it be through an "off-campus" arrangement.

This blatant pro-abortion power play came about because of the ever shrinking pool of abortion providers in the country, and the concern expressed by pro-abortion advocates that "we need to train more doctors who will know how to do these procedures" to meet the needs of society. This is bankrupt rationale, since any OB resident or practitioner gets ample experience in D&C, suction curettage, prostin evacuations and treatment of infection in the course of handling spontaneous pregnancy wastage. It is not necessary to purposely destroy the unborn to get this training. The ACGME is promulgating a "pro-abortion" agenda, not an "excellence in training" agenda, and it must be recognized as such by Pro Life physicians.

AAPLOG was successfully involved in opposing ACGME's attempt to mandate that every OB-Gyn must have elective abortion training. As a result of this opposition, the ACGME has temporarily rescinded this mandate. This is just one example of the work AAPLOG is doing to ensure Pro Life issues.