MSFC member Dr. Mara Gordon, a current resident in family medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, recently wrote a piece published in The Atlantic about the dire shortage of training in abortion and family planning for medical students.  Thank you, Mara, for highlighting this important message!

“I felt inspired to reflect on my motivations to become an abortion provider after attending a Medical Students for Choice Abortion Training Institute during my third year of medical school. Meeting other students who share my passion for reproductive justice was inspiring, and I felt especially moved by the stories of students who took huge risks to educate themselves about abortion. I wanted to explore the forces shaping my own educational experience– one that treated abortion as a normal part of a woman’s reproductive healthcare– and theirs, where abortion is conspicuously absent from the curricula of so many medical schools.” –Dr. Mara Gordon

You can read the article, “The Scarcity of Abortion Training in America’s Medical Schools”  here.