MSFC in the News
September 2, 2022
Post-Roe, some areas may lose OB/GYNs if medical students can’t get trainingWhen Andrea Soto was 10 years old, her family immigrated to Texas from Mexico. Her grandmother, who lived in Houston, had Alzheimer’s disease, and her parents wanted to be closer …
August 30, 2022
‘Like walking on glass’: Anxious post-Roe era for Tulane’s Medical School[…] A recent Washington Post report found doctors across practices are turning down offers from conservative states. Abortion providers are rushing to relocate. In Louisiana, 25 parishes lack an OB-GYN …
August 24, 2022
Cities Funding Abortion Access Battle State Leaders Against ItFights between state officials and local governments are escalating after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, as cities start to use their own funding to support abortion access. …
August 23, 2022
Hickenlooper meets with women’s health advocates, will help protect accessColorado needs to brace for a surge in demand for abortion services as surrounding states shut down access. That was the consensus earlier this week when U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper …
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 …