Pamela Merritt

As the director of Medical Students for Choice, Pamela Merritt works with medical student groups around the globe to ensure they have access to training in abortion and family planning. She discussed that role, and her perhaps surprising contention that supporters of abortion rights are winning, on "St. Louis on the Air."

A local reproductive rights activist says the loss of Missouri's last clinic that provides abortions would be dire for black women.Pamela Merritt,…

Updated at 8:00 p.m. May 10 with more information from the first day — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was in a St. Louis courtroom Thursday watching jury…