Albert Einstein
Einstein Students Advocate for Abortion Access and Protection
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Einstein students in its chapter of Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) knew that the decision would harm patients, physicians, and medical trainees alike. “Patients, particularly those from marginalized groups, will suffer threats to their reproductive autonomy and healthcare access [i.e. their right to kill their unborn baby],” said Sarah McNeilly, a second-year M.D. student and a leader of the Einstein MSFC. She added, “Many physicians will be forced to deliver excellent care and advocate for their patients’ well-being in environments that are hostile to reproductive rights.” [Who is advocating for the fetuses - who feel pain when crushed to death?]
Also of concern to the students was the threat posed to education, for them but especially for those students at medical schools in states banning abortion. [Who will teach them how to kill the babies???] With a new restriction on already limited opportunities to develop the essential understanding and skills required for reproductive care, many in the Einstein MSFC felt compelled to mobilize to support abortion access and protection.
United by their organization’s passion for reproductive justice [!!!!!], Einstein’s MSFC members channeled their outrage and heartbreak about the Dobbs decision into action, leading the development of MSFC NYC, a citywide coalition of medical students working to ensure that people in need of an abortion or related care can access those services where it remains legal and available. Other member medical schools include Columbia, Cornell Weill, Mount Sinai, Hackensack Meridian, NYU, and SUNY Downstate.
“As students in New York, a state with one of the strongest legal protections for abortion ["protecting" is another way of saying "not protecting"], we benefit from training in a place where abortion remains legal and at an institution where abortion is still appropriately performed and taught. For that reason, we felt it was that much more important to continue helping our local communities access abortion care, and to support pregnant people in states with complete or near-total abortion bans that have begun taking effect,” said Sarah, who also is among leadership of MSFC NYC. “While many may feel helpless in the wake of this decision, it is crucial to recognize that as medical students we can and should advocate for a more equitable [that word HAS to show up] and just future.”
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I am beside myself.
One could argue that it is being taught for those rare instances when the Halacha allows it. But you see that that students [who aren't even Jewish] clearly aren't bound by that.
"Crazy" thought - Ask women who considered abortion but decided to have the baby if they regret it.... "Ahhh - we shoulda killed her when we had the chance". Probably never. And ask the person whose parents were considering aborting them if they are happy they didn't. I always want to ask the pro death people what they think about the idea that their mother could have used her "reproductive rights" on them.
Every aborted child could potentially be an Albert Einstein. And even if not - the child will DEFINITELY be a צלם אלוקים!!!
ובחרת בחיים!!!!!!!!!
