Medical Students for Choice vows that the killing of Dr. George Tiller will strengthen its resolve to ensure women a full spectrum of reproductive options. Giving up would be a fate worse than death,” said president Miranda Balkin. “Thousands of women need reproductive choice.”

Since civil war erupted in DRC in 1997, more than 3 million lives have been taken, and those that haven’t have been subjected to brutality. Some villages report as many as two thirds of their women having been raped — including victims as young as 11 months to as old as 75 years.

Medical Students for Choice works to destigmatize abortion among students. About 43 percent of U.S. women will have at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old, yet 87 percent of U.S. counties has no provider. Only 5 percent of U.S. students receive comprehensive sex ed.