Fair enough, I use the term “abortion doctor” not because I’m anti-choice, its just a lot easier to say than “OB/GYN specialist who performs abortions”

Although abortion services are certainly part of the OB/GYN umbrella, there are also a lot of family practitioners (MDs) who also perform abortions. I’ve even heard of pediatricians doing them for adolescent girls.

Even in OB/GYN residency programs, abortion training is optional/elective. All OB/GYN programs are required to offer the training to the doctors who want it, but they do not force all of them to undergo the training.

But even when referring only to doctors, we use the term abortion providers because “abortion doctor” is not a specialty, and because it is a far less cumbersome term than the truly accurate one, which is an OB/GYN who provides abortions. “Abortion doctor” is used as a belittling term by anti-choicers to imply that this is all they do (almost always not the case), and that abortion care is somehow entirely separate from other OB/GYN care.

The term “provider” implies that there are a lot of different groups of people providing the abortion, which is not the case. Nurses and other ancillary staff certainly provide support to the doctor, but its the doctor who actually performs the procedure.

A big majority of doctors feel that abortion should be safe and legal, even if they dont want to perform the procedure themselves. Especially the older doctors, they remember the times when the only way a woman could get an abortion were in abandoned row houses and back alleys, performed by idiots who didnt know what they were doing and caused a lot of perforated uteri and induced septic shock which frequently killed the woman. And I wont even get into the coathanger stuff which is even more gruesome.