MSFC in the News
August 12, 2022
Medical education in a post-Roe world: student advocacy is patient advocacyIt was a shot heard around the world—the announcement earlier this summer declaring the dreaded but expected overturn of Roe v Wade, effectively ending access to safe, legal abortions in large swaths …
August 10, 2022
Medical schools, students review training amid abortion bansGhazaleh Moayedi credits many of her strengths as a Texas-based obstetrician-gynecologist to training related to abortion. Outpatient abortion training builds bedside manner and teaches practical technical skills outside of a …
August 6, 2022
Should Doctors Break the Law?THE HORRIFIC STORIES are pouring in. A Texas woman’s water breaks at 18 weeks, leaving the fetus’s chance of survival “as close to zero as you’ll ever get in medicine,” …
August 4, 2022
University of Wisconsin medical students examine state’s future after reinstatement of 173-year-old abortion banThe Supreme Court’s controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which was released on June 24, has led to vast disparities in reproductive healthcare access between states. In Wisconsin, …
July 27, 2022
Many future doctors may lose access to abortion training as more states move to outlaw itWashington State University medical student Carmen Abbe has long been committed to reproductive healthcare access and hopes to one day become a doctor who can provide a full-range of services, …
July 25, 2022
The Insidious Attack on the Training of Ob/Gyn ResidentsThe Dobbs decision of the Supreme Court is the culmination of half a century of insidiously successful efforts by anti-choice groups to add state restrictions that limit the right of women to …
July 25, 2022
With limited access to abortion comes limited access to medical training to perform abortionsWhen Roe v. Wade was overturned last month, access to abortion became illegal or uncertain in nearly half the country. And with that, accessing abortion care training has become incredibly difficult for medical students …
July 10, 2022
Abortion Bans Are Limiting What Some Doctors and Med Students Are TaughtAbortion care is one of the most common medical procedures in the US, yet even before the fall of Roe v. Wade, doctors and students had to navigate tricky legal and educational hurdles to train …
July 8, 2022
‘It’s incredibly far-reaching’: medical students on the Roe reversalFourth-year medical student Mackenzie Bennett was on a conference call when news broke that Roe v Wade had been overturned. The topic was telehealth and medication abortion. “We stopped the …
June 30, 2022
Massive media fail: Abortion coverage ignores misogyny, theocracy, and so much moreThe Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is a shattering blow to women, as well as to anyone who believes that women should have the same rights and same autonomy …