Dr. Mildred Jefferson, First Black Woman to Graduate From Harvard Med, Knew Abortion Was Wrong

This year, as America remembers those who shaped our nation over the last 250 years, Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson should be honored for her dedicated fight for life. Born in Texas, the only child of a Methodist minister and a school teacher, Mildred would follow the town doctor on his rounds. From his horse and buggy, he told her that if she wanted to be a doctor, she should “just go right ahead” and do it. So in 1951, after graduating from a segregated public high school, Jefferson became the firs