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By Vowing to Codify Roe, Kamala Harris Ensures Continued Government Meddling in Abortion Care
Aug 15, 2024 | By Jordan Smith in The Intercept
Featuring Pamela Merritt, MSFC's Executive Director.
[…] The new abortion policy memo tackles these limitations head on. In addition to Villavicencio, the memo’s authors include Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an OB-GYN who provides all-trimester abortion; Pamela Merritt, the executive director of Medical Students for Choice; and Garin Marschall and Erika Christensen, directors of Patient Forward, which advocates for all-trimester abortion care. (Villavicencio and McNicholas recently co-founded the reproductive justice policy group Raven Lab for Reproductive Liberation, for which Merritt serves as a senior adviser.)…
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