MSFC in the News

August 14, 2024

Kentuckians Sound the Alarm: Abortion Bans Are Driving Doctors Out of State By Roxana Behdad in MS Magazine

[…] In a recent interview with Ms., Lilly Deljoo, University of Louisville medical student, chapter president of Medical Students for Choice and speaker at the press conference said, “It’s a …

August 6, 2024

Roe v. Wade Didn’t Go Far Enough For Abortion Rights, Hundreds Of Health Care Providers Tell Biden And Harris By Alanna Vagianos in HuffPost

More than 400 health care providers called on the Biden administration to “actively and unequivocally” support an abortion rights policy that goes further than Roe v. Wade and restores access …

June 28, 2024

Milwaukee rally on the 2-year anniversary of Dobbs v Jackson By Staff in Fight Back! News

Maya Seshan, a member of Medical Students for Choice – Medical College of Wisconsin, noted the difficulties doctors have been facing in this climate. “Since the Dobbs decision, physicians across …

June 25, 2024

No mandatory 24-hour waiting period for abortion, rules Michigan Court of Claims By Samuel Dodge in MLive.com

Michigan’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period for abortions is no more for now after a Tuesday decision by the Michigan Court of Claims. The state court approved on June 25 a …

June 24, 2024

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

When Pamela Merritt, executive director of Medical Students for Choice, received word of the launch of Abortion Access Now, she said she “immediately was worried that it would be Roe …

May 19, 2024

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

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 Pennsylvania v. Casey, thus eliminating the …

May 16, 2024

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

In vitro fertilization (IVF) can be life-changing. I know, because it’s the reason I exist. My parents met later in life, so they knew starting a family might be challenging—and …

May 9, 2024

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

Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained …

April 19, 2024

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

University of Connecticut Medical Students for Choice received the Ellen Paradise Fisher Award for Activism in Action for their work in reproductive justice. The UConn Medical Students for Choice is …

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

With the clock ticking to get a measure enshrining the right to an abortion on a statewide ballot in 2024, Missouri abortion rights supporters appear to be split on strategy …