‘It’s incredibly far-reaching’: medical students on the Roe reversal
by Gray Chapman from US news | The Guardian on (#616G7)
For students pursuing their medical education in states banning abortion, the ruling leaves them grappling with the challenges of a healthcare procedure becoming criminalized
Fourth-year medical student Mackenzie Bennett was on a conference call when news broke that Roe v Wade had been overturned. The topic was telehealth and medication abortion.
We stopped the meeting, we just had to log off and sit in those feelings for a minute. It was honestly really devastating," says Bennett, who is pursuing dual medical and public health degrees specializing in OB-GYN at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta.
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