MSFC in the News
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 …
April 4, 2023
PHOTOS: The Rally for Our Rights unites community members at the Wisconsin State CapitolThe 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 furtherThe abortion rights movement is split over how to restore access to the procedure as it prepares for a series of political fights across the country. While a string of …
March 29, 2023
Medical students’ abortion training is stifled in a post-Dobbs nation: Hannah Ahrendt and Eija KentMedical school is like drinking from a fire hydrant – too much to learn in a limited amount of time. But what happens when that fire hydrant gets shut off, …
March 26, 2023
Abortion rights rally hosted at UW-La CrossePro-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 ClinicsDr. Colleen McNicholas is fresh off performing two abortions when a ringing phone quickly stops her. “Oh, ugh,” she said, eyes widened, before she darted off to another room. Just …
March 17, 2023
How Dobbs Upended Med Students’ FuturesRose Al Abosy was on the last day of their maternal-fetal medicine sub-internship last year when the Dobbs decision came down. The end of the constitutional right to an abortion …