MSFC in the News

April 26, 2023

Post-Dobbs, WashU Med Students Fight for Reproductive Education, Healthcare, and Justice By Sylvie Richards in Student Life

Featuring MSFC’s chapter leaders, Caroline Cary and Paula Valiño. Caroline Cary, a first-year at Washington University in St. Louis’ School of Medicine, decided to go to medical school because of …

April 4, 2023

PHOTOS: The Rally for Our Rights unites community members at the Wisconsin State Capitol By Lauren Aguila in The Daily Cardinal

The Rally for Our Rights gathered community members to stand up for transgender and women’s rights on Sunday, April 2 at the Wisconsin State Capitol. This rally was organized by …

April 4, 2023

Democrats want to restore Roe. They’re divided on whether to go even further By Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly in Politico

Featuring MSFC’s alumna, Dr. Colleen McNicholas and MSFC’s Executive Director, Pamela Merritt. The abortion rights movement is split over how to restore access to the procedure as it prepares for …

March 29, 2023

Medical students’ abortion training is stifled in a post-Dobbs nation: Hannah Ahrendt and Eija Kent By Hannah Ahrendt and Eija Kent in Cleveland.com

By MSFC’s student leaders, Hannah Ahrendt and Eija Kent. Medical school is like drinking from a fire hydrant – too much to learn in a limited amount of time. But …

March 26, 2023

Abortion rights rally hosted at UW-La Crosse By Anna Fischer in News8000.com

Pro-choice organization Women Win Wisconsin has partnered with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, Fair Wisconsin, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Progress, Medical Students for Choice, SEIU, Human Rights Campaign, and …

March 25, 2023

As South Bans Abortion, Thousands Turn to Illinois Clinics By Amanda Seitz in AP News

Featuring MSFC’s alumna, Dr. Colleen McNicholas. Dr. Colleen McNicholas is fresh off performing two abortions when a ringing phone quickly stops her. “Oh, ugh,” she said, eyes widened, before she …

March 17, 2023

How Dobbs Upended Med Students’ Futures By Andrea González-Ramírez in The Cut

Featuring MSFC’s Board Member, Rose Al Abosy. Rose Al Abosy was on the last day of their maternal-fetal medicine sub-internship last year when the Dobbs decision came down. The end …

March 15, 2023

Arizona ‘Medical Students for Life’ Chapter Threatens Patient Health: ‘This Contradicts What We Are Taught in Our Curriculum,’ Say Students By Olivia Raisner in Ms. Magazine

Featuring MSFC’s chapter members at Midwestern University COM. There’s misinformation afoot at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. I spent four days on campus earlier this month talking to …

March 15, 2023

How Overturning Roe v. Wade Changed Match Day 2023 By Sarah McNeilly, Morgan S. Levy, Simone A. Bernstein, MD, Jessi A. Gold, MD, MS, and Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP in MedPage Today

Sarah McNeilly is a medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and MSFC’s chapter leader. For thousands of medical students, years of hard work …

March 13, 2023

Abortion Training in Texas Is Vanishing By Calli McMurray in Texas Observer

[…] Then in September 2021, Senate Bill 8 restricted abortions to the period before fetal cardiac activity can be detected (around five or six weeks gestational age), effectively banning most …