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The Potential End of Roe Won’t Stop This Abortion Provider-in-Training
May 11, 2022 | By Christina Sturdivant Sani in The Washington Post
Interview to Sherry Reddix, 2022 graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and member of Unmuted MSFC.
I’m from Mississippi, and my whole family is in the field of medicine. My aunt, uncle and father are all physicians, and my mom is a nurse. My uncle was actually nominated to the State Board of Health in Mississippi in 2012. Then his nomination was blocked because he served as the emergency on-call physician for the abortion clinic in Jackson, the clinic at the center of the current Supreme Court case. It was my senior year of high school, and my phone was blowing up with calls and texts. My grandma was like, “Uncle Carl is on Rachel Maddow!”…
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