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The Aspiring Doctors in Medical Students For Choice Are Fighting For Their Patients’ Abortion Rights
Mar 19, 2025 | By Fortesa Latifi in Teen Vogue
Vi Burgess was in her first year of medical school when Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, ending the constitutional right to abortion in the United States and paving the way for states to severely limit or outright ban access to reproductive healthcare. Burgess, now 25, went to a protest with fellow medical students and then set to work, learning abortion techniques on papayas and joining Medical Students for Choice.
Medical Students for Choice, a nonprofit formed in 1993 by medical students as a response to the lack of abortion education in their training, now has more than 220 chapters at schools across the world…
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