Reproductive Health Programming Strategist for the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). Queer, academic activist, anti-racist, intersectional feminist.
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The Inside Scoop from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO)
SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE The Inside Scoop from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist and Aliye Runyan, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Project Consultant It feels appropriate to mark the end of the month within which we have observed and celebrated Women’s History Month and National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (March 10) by sharing an...
Today and Every Day, We Celebrate Abortion Providers
SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Today and Every Day, We Celebrate Abortion Providers Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Today, March 10, marks Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (APAD), a day dedicated to recognizing the courage and commitment of healthcare providers who offer abortion care, and celebrating the folks who ensure that those who need abortions can get them.
Women Hold Up Half the Sky, But What About the Conditions on the Ground?
SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist As I sit down to write this post for a special edition of the AMSA Repro eNewsletter in recognition of the start of Women’s History Month and National Endometriosis Awareness Month (March), International Women’s Day (March 8), and National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (March 10), I am mindful – and with a heaviness in my heart – of the truth that this is a world,...
Equipping Ourselves with Knowledge & Awareness of Our Rights & Our Patients’ Rights
Equipping Ourselves with Knowledge & Awareness of Our Rights & Our Patients’ Rights Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Sending love and solidarity to each one of you from the AMSA Reproductive Health Project , as we individually and collectively absorb the daily assaults against decency, dignity, civility, civil and human rights, and against the constitutional, legal, and precedential guardrails of this society’s national (and state) governance.
Equiping Ourselves with Knowledge & Awareness of Our Rights & Our Patients’ Rights Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Sending love and solidarity to each one of you from the AMSA Reproductive Health Project , as we individually and collectively absorb the daily assaults against decency, dignity, civility, civil and human rights, and against the constitutional, legal, and precedential guardrails of this society’s national (and state) governance.
Justice is a Journey; Hope is Each Step We Take in Spite of it All
Justice is a Journey; Hope is Each Step We Take in Spite of it All Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist That was exactly the truth I didn’t know I needed to hear in the first full week of 2025. Last week, my first week back to work after a two week end-of-year break, I was in a conversation with Rev.
Human Dignity, Human Rights
SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist If you’ve been following AMSA National’s social media, including our Instagram and Facebook pages, you’ve likely noticed that the AMSA Reproductive Health Project has been working with our social media team to create a 30-day series of posts that highlight the 30 identified human rights in the United Nations 1948 document on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...
Whose Rights? Human Rights! Whose Rights? Our Rights!
SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE 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 the founding Mothers of the Reproductive Justice Movement – said to several hundred future physicians, The room full of students immediately erupted in laughter, mixed with, perhaps, (certainly for me) awe in the face of such a direct,...
Stay Connected - to Resources, Community, and Radical Hope for Reproductive Freedom and Justice
Stay Connected – to Resources, Community, and Radical Hope for Reproductive Freedom and Justice – through the AMSA Reproductive Health Project! Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Greetings from all of us at the AMSA Reproductive Health Project (AMSA RHP)! With the start of the new academic year well under way, we are excited to share with you what we have planned for 2024-2025.
Building Beloved Community Through Practices of Belonging in Times of Social Disintegration; Or, How We Stick Together in Order to Live to Fight Another Day - AMSA
Building Beloved Community Through Practices of Belonging in Times of Social Disintegration; Or, How We Stick Together in Order to Live to Fight Another Day Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Just this week, a meme showed up in my Instagram feed that I immediately recognized was conveying a powerful and deeply relevant message.
Pride Month Connections: God, Guns, Gays & Abortion
Pride Month Connections: God, Guns, Gays & Abortion Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Happy Pride Month, one and all! As a gay white man who came out in the late 1990s while living in Chicago (Oh, Boystown!), I am reminiscing fondly on the many Pride events over those years that helped me feel surrounded and held by a new community at exactly the moment that I was losing the love and connections of my Evangelical biological family.
Highlights & Reflections on AMSA Annual Meeting Future Physicians for Change 2024: A “Mountaintop Experience”
SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Highlights & Reflections on AMSA Annual Meeting Future Physicians for Change 2024: A “Mountaintop Experience” Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist & Aliye Runyan, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Strategist There is nothing like an AMSA annual meeting! A protected time and space for hundreds of future physicians to come together for shared experiences, illuminating discussions, and transformative moments of...
No Justice, No Peace: How the Reproductive Justice Framework Helps Me Connect with Student-led Freedom & Liberation Movements
SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE No Justice, No Peace: How the Reproductive Justice Framework Helps Me Connect with Student-led Freedom & Liberation Movements Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist In the time since it first appeared as the title of a song included in the 1965 release of The Who’s debut studio album, My Generation, the phrase, “the kids are alright” has been used both earnestly and ironically as a statement about how,...
Honoring, Celebrating, and Loving Abortion Providers, Today and Every Day
Honoring, Celebrating, and Loving Abortion Providers, Today and Every Day Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist March 10th marks Abortion Provider Appreciation Day, a day dedicated to recognizing the courage and commitment of healthcare providers who offer abortion care.
A Meditation for Black History Month: Why the AMSA Reproductive Health Project Follows the Moral, Ethical, and Political Vision of the Reproductive Justice Movement - AMSA
A Meditation for Black History Month: Why the AMSA Reproductive Health Project Follows the Moral, Ethical, and Political Vision of the Reproductive Justice Movement Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist When people who don’t know me ask me what I do, I feel a little bit of a thrill, knowing that most of these inquirers are not anticipating the answer I’m about to give, or that I’m about to use the “a” word.
Visions of Freedom & Actions for Justice – Together We Change the World - AMSA
Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Visions of Freedom & Actions for Justice – Together We Change the World As I write this, we are heading into the long holiday weekend that honors the life, leadership, and vision of civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. What is there to say about a society that assassinates one of its greatest moral compasses, and then establishes a day of remembrance, ostensibly honoring the man who was...
The Transformative Power of our Collective Dreaming
Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Here we are, at the end of the first week of 2023. Many of us, myself included, are approaching the new year trepidatiously. “Yeah, happy new year…but, can I see the preview first?” – a meme I came across the other day that made me smile and feel seen.
Calling Repro Freedom Dreamers & Doers! AMSA Reproductive Health Institute 2023 - Applications OPEN!
AMSA Reproductive Health Institute 2023 Applications Open – Apply Today! Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist The “WHY” The late civil rights activist, Toni Cade Bambara, once said: “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” At a time when authoritarian and fascist movements in the US are organizing to reverse more than 60 years of gains in human and civil rights, we – those of us on the side of freedom, truth, and beauty – must...
ReSTORYing Community: Co-creating a New Narrative for Our Chosen Profession
Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist ReSTORYing Community: Co-creating a New Narrative for Our Chosen Profession At AMSA we believe reproductive health services are essential to comprehensive health care, and that abortion services are a vital component of reproductive health care.
Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist. Outside of AMSA, Jeff serves as Curator of Critical Epistemologies and Meaning-Making for a center of excellence for liberationist theologies, the Activist Theology Project.
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