MSFC in the News
It’s time for Missouri hospitals to find their voice and fight back
Feb 22, 2023 | 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, isolated and othered in the practice of medicine.
Today, the same medical institutions that stayed silent on abortion are now the targets of attacks we, as abortion providers, long ago warned about.
For example, in 2015–2016, several Missouri agencies investigated Planned Parenthood and found no wrongdoing. Despite that, the Senate Interim Committee on the Sanctity of Life, whose singular focus was to investigate and malign Planned Parenthood, pressured the University of Missouri Hospital to cancel my clinical privileges, forcing the closure of abortion services at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia…
From Our Blog
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Roundtable
Last week, MSFC members Danna Ghafir and Natalie Givens joined medical and undergraduate students across the country to participate in a virtual roundtable discussion with the United States Secretary of …
Other News
Reproductive justice activists continue the fight for abortion access in Wisconsin
Featuring MSFC’s Chapter at the Medical College of Wisconsin Roughly 40 people gathered at the Sunburst Statue off Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee on Saturday, September 30, to call for …
Look Up! Roe Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
Featuring MSFC’s Executive Director, Pamela Merritt. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June, abortion opponents weren’t the only ones ready to embrace a world beyond it. Dr. …