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...change at Stanford, and at med schools across the country, is the result of advocacy by Morgan and other members of a group called Medical Students for Choice (MSFC). Overworked med students would seem to make unlikely reformers. But the organization, with 110 active chapters and 7,000 members in the U.S. and Canada, has made considerable headway. Since its creation in 1993, the group estimates that about 50, or a third of all medical schools, have introduced abortion or brought it back into their curriculums, either through mandatory coursework, elective classes, lectures or Planned Parenthood rotations. "They have made...
Abortion teaching had been slipping into oblivion until MSFC began to reverse the trend. Though the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, prompting some med schools to include the procedure in course work, the ruling also fueled an active antiabortion movement that sought to stigmatize providers. (Last week the House passed a bill making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a woman, a measure seen by someas the first step toward new limits on the procedure.) Wanting to avoid controversy and often at the behest of conservative legislatures or donors, many...