MSFC in the News

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 …

March 13, 2023

Penn Reproductive Justice to increase activity through new educational, political initiatives By Sophia Leung in The Daily Pennsylvanian

Featuring . Penn Reproductive Justice, a student organization founded by three undergraduate students in June 2022, has been increasing its presence on campus over the last several months. […] The …

February 22, 2023

It’s time for Missouri hospitals to find their voice and fight back By Colleen McNicholas in The Missouri Independent

Featuring MSFC’s alumna, Dr. Colleen McNicholas. As one of the last abortion providers in Missouri, I was part of the fight to preserve reproductive freedom, a fight that was siloed, …

February 21, 2023

As Restrictions Complicate Abortion Training in Medical Schools, Papayas Are Filling a Gap By Sara Hutchinson in Teen Vogue

[…] During a manual vacuum aspiration, or MVA, a physician applies local anesthesia then inserts a small manual suction device into the uterus. Once safely inserted, the physician pulls back …