MSFC in the News
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 accessFeaturing MSFC’s resident member Samuel Raine. Colorado needs to brace for a surge in demand for abortion services as surrounding states shut down access. That was the consensus earlier this …
August 12, 2022
Medical education in a post-Roe world: student advocacy is patient advocacyOpinion piece written by MSFC’s chapter members from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. It was a shot heard around the world—the announcement earlier this summer declaring the dreaded …
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 banFeaturing MSFC’s chapter members from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health The Supreme Court’s controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which was released on …
July 27, 2022
Many future doctors may lose access to abortion training as more states move to outlaw itFeaturing MSFC’s chapter members from the Washington State University. Washington State University medical student Carmen Abbe has long been committed to reproductive healthcare access and hopes to one day become …
July 25, 2022
The Insidious Attack on the Training of Ob/Gyn ResidentsFeaturing MSFC Founder, Jody Steinauer, MD, PhD. The 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 …
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 TaughtFeaturing MSFC Founder, Jody Steinauer, MD, PhD; and MSFC Executive Director, Pamela Merritt. Abortion care is one of the most common medical procedures in the US, yet even before the fall of …