Louisa Pyle

Medical Students for Choice

Louisa Pyle is the Immediate Past President of Medical Students for Choice, a bi-national grassroots nonprofit organization that focuses on creating tomorrow’s abortion providers and pro-choice physicians by improving reproductive education in medical schools.

Her day job is as an MD and PhD student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The Abortion Curriculum Has Left the Classroom

In the reproductive health curriculum I dream of at night, students who do not wish to comprehensively serve their patients are forced to defend their position. Quite simply, this is a curriculum where abortion is included where appropriate, just like any other common, safe procedure.