Did you know? Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson was the first black woman to attend and graduate from Harvard Medical School and was the founder of Massachusetts Citizens for Life and National Right to Life. She is noted for changing Ronald Reagan's stance on abortion from pro-choice to pro-life. "The Hippocratic tradition, fused with the Judeo-Christian sanctity of life ethic, requires that a doctor demand of oneself a high standard of moral commitment and a code of disciplined personal conduct before undertaking the responsibility for another person's life".