MSFC in the News
October 6, 2023
Reproductive justice activists continue the fight for abortion access in WisconsinRoughly 40 people gathered at the Sunburst Statue off Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee on Saturday, September 30, to call for equitable access to abortion. Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee (RJAM) …
September 12, 2023
Look Up! Roe Is the Floor, Not the CeilingWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June, abortion opponents weren’t the only ones ready to embrace a world beyond it. Dr. Colleen McNicholas, for one, had presided …
September 11, 2023
Restore Roe, or Go Beyond It? The Question Is Fracturing the Abortion Rights MovementNot long after Election Day last November, Pamela Merritt joined a call with other abortion-rights activists in Missouri to discuss a daring proposal: sidestepping the state’s ruling Republicans by directly …
June 15, 2023
Abortion care training is banned in some states. A new bill could help OB-GYNs get itSami Stroebel, an aspiring obstetrician-gynecologist, started medical school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison last summer within weeks of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to …
May 31, 2023
Dobbs decision now a factor in med school residency picksWhen Rose Al Abosy began weighing which obstetrics and gynecology residencies to apply to, she spoke to advisers, considered programs’ academics and evaluated how state laws would affect her ability …
May 26, 2023
Abortion remains key to OB-GYN medical education at UMass ChanWhile abortion restrictions are on the rise in many states and the legal debate escalates over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s long-standing approval of abortion drug mifepristone, students and …
May 23, 2023
OB-GYN Residents Are Required to Receive Clinical Abortion Training. They Can’t Do That in Texas.Danna Ghafir doesn’t want to leave Texas. The 27-year-old was born and raised here, part of a tightly connected Arab American community spread throughout sunny, sprawling Houston. She grew up …
May 1, 2023
Abandoned at birth, medical student fights for reproductive justiceThird-year medical student Jennifer Marino was abandoned at birth, left in a basket on a doorstep in Newton under a porch light. She was rescued by a woman retrieving her …
April 26, 2023
Part Two: Residency programs and medical practices drew them to Tennessee. Then came Dobbs.Recruiting residents to Tennessee is critical to the state’s health care workforce. In Tennessee, 46% of residents training in the state stayed to practice in the decade through 2021, according …
April 26, 2023
Post-Dobbs, WashU Med Students Fight for Reproductive Education, Healthcare, and JusticeCaroline Cary, a first-year at Washington University in St. Louis’ School of Medicine, decided to go to medical school because of her passion for obstetrics and gynecology. She was especially …