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AMSA’s Response to Recent Federal Executive Orders Impacting Medical and Premedical Students

Statement The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) strongly opposes the recent executive orders and policy changes at the federal level that threaten the educational, professional, and research opportunities for current and aspiring medical students. These actions jeopardize funding for critical scientific research, roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and undermine access to training...

Year-end Reflections in the Season of Sacred Light & Sacred Darkness

SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE  Year-end Reflections in the Season of Sacred Light & Sacred Darkness Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Season’s greetings from us at the AMSA Reproductive Health Project! We hope that you are experiencing all that this season of sacred light and sacred darkness (you...

Whose Rights? Human Rights! Whose Rights? Our Rights!

  SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE  Whose Rights? Human Rights! Whose Rights? Our Rights! Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist   With a twinkle in her eye and a smirk on her lips, and from the ballroom stage set up for the keynote address, Loretta Ross – one of...

Voters Win Abortion Care Protection in 7 More States

SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE  Voters Win Abortion Care Protection in 7 More States Now 14 of 17 States Succeed in Guaranteeing Right to Abortion Care Written by Sarah Osborn, AMSA Gender & Sexuality Action Committee, Reproductive Justice Coordinator    This election will lead to major changes. Be there for yourself, your friends,...