MSFC in the News

June 24, 2024

Inside the $100 million plan to restore abortion rights in America By Alice Ollstein in Politico

Featuring Pamela Merritt, MSFC’s Executive Director When Pamela Merritt, executive director of Medical Students for Choice, received word of the launch of Abortion Access Now, she said she “immediately was …

May 19, 2024

Students, faculty advocate for reproductive care post-Dobbs By Emily Khym in Yale News

Featuring MSFC’s Chapter at Yale University On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern …

May 16, 2024

Will Alabama’s IVF Mess Go National? By Madeleine Aitken in Rewire News

Featuring MSFC’s Member, Nicholas Kummer, medical student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham In vitro fertilization (IVF) can be life-changing. I know, because it’s the reason I exist. My …

May 9, 2024

Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows By Julie Rovner and Rachana Pradhan in NPR

Featuring MSFC’s Chapter Leaders, Isabella Rosario Blum and Hannah Light-Olson Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she …

April 19, 2024

UConn Medical Students for Choice win activism award By Sara Bedigian in The Daily Campus

Featuring MSFC’s Chapter at the University of Connecticut University of Connecticut Medical Students for Choice received the Ellen Paradise Fisher Award for Activism in Action for their work in reproductive …

March 22, 2024

Will Missouri vote on abortion rights in 2024? As deadline looms, it’s getting complicated By Kacen Bayless in The Kansas City Star

Featuring Pamela Merritt, MSFC’s Executive Director With the clock ticking to get a measure enshrining the right to an abortion on a statewide ballot in 2024, Missouri abortion rights supporters …

February 27, 2024

Nessel supports nixing Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period on abortion By Anna Liz Nichols in The Michigan Advance

Earlier this month, reproductive rights groups joined together for a lawsuit looking to throw out Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period for receiving an abortion, as well as other rules, calling the …

February 13, 2024

Abortion rights group files lawsuit to expand access to reproductive care in Michigan By Kyle Kaminski in The 'Gander

Michiganders took decisive action when they voted to enshrine the right to reproductive freedom into the state Constitution in 2022. But according to a lawsuit filed against the state this …

February 6, 2024

U.S. Social Policy Is in Crisis. Academic Medicine Should Address It By Sarah McNeilly and Vivian Kim in Newsweek

By MSFC Members Sarah McNeilly and Vivian Kim Almost everyone who is currently enrolled in medical school has only ever trained in the context of crisis. Since the moment we …

February 6, 2024

Abortion clinics, student group sue over Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period By Beth Leblanc in The Detroit News

A Michigan abortion provider and a pro-abortion rights student group have filed suit against the state in a challenge of longstanding state abortion regulations that they say violate the right …