Featuring MSFC’s chapter members from the Washington State University.

Washington State University medical student Carmen Abbe has long been committed to reproductive healthcare access and hopes to one day become a doctor who can provide a full-range of services, including abortion.

She said the recent Supreme Court decision has made that path more complicated, and dangerous.

“There’s a long history in our country of abortion providers not feeling safe, and a history of dead threats and of murder,” she said. “That felt like a history that we’ve overcome, like we’ve overcome a lot of things in this country, so to have not only be reality again, but literally being persecuted, and to go to jail, for doing our job, is pretty unreal.”

Abbe, along with Jessica McAllister and Anna Nichols, are third-year medical students at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, and members of the student group Medical Students for Choice.

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