Why one medical student speaks out for abortion rights

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Dear John,
Meet Kizza Blair, a fourth-year medical student in Uganda and member of Medical Students for Choice. After witnessing the tragic death of a young girl, resulting from an unsafe abortion, Kizza says he turned trauma into motivation:
“All of this was psychologically traumatizing for me, but later on I picked it up as a motivation to help other girls like her protect their futures by being able to access free and safe abortion care. That’s why I am an abortion advocate.”

We connected with Kizza for a quick Q&A and asked him about the value of safe abortion care. He spoke about the harmful impact of the Helms Amendment, a U.S. law that restricts U.S. foreign assistance funding for abortion services and disproportionately affects Black and brown women in low- and middle-income countries.
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Simply put, Kizza says if this policy—rooted in racism and colonialism—were repealed, it would save lives. And that’s exactly what Ipas and our partners will be working to do in the months ahead. Learn more about the historic call to repeal the Helms Amendment ([link removed]) .
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