The future for Connecticut Alpha Meghan McCabe is clear: Medical School. Meghan has always liked biology. She considers herself a scientist and she loves helping people. So she combines these interests in the hopes of becoming an OBGYN in the future.

Meghan is intrigued in studying hormonal cycles. She finds hormones the most interesting thing to study. She is often surprised when encountering people who don’t know basic things she believes they should know about their own bodies, and is excited to take these opportunities to educate people.

Meghan wants to start out by working as an OBGYN with hopes of shifting into politics to work on Women’s Health Rights and Women’s Health Education. Meghan feels there are a lot of things people are afraid to talk about with the feeling of “Oh my gosh, this happens to me, but not to anyone else,” she explains. Meghan believes that is not the case at all, but rather it’s simply that these important conversations are not happening between people. She is a feminist, and she cares a lot about women’s health rights. But she also feels that it is equally important for men and women to know what is going on in their bodies, how to best take care of themselves, and how to stay healthy.

Meghan referenced Connecticut’s neighbor state New York, which eliminated local and state taxes on women’s menstrual products this past summer. “A lot of things linger from the time when women did not have many rights,” says Meghan, “It’s a mindset that lasts, you just have chip away at it slowly.”

Meghan hopes to increase women’s access to health care for women-specific problems. She does not only want to do this in the United States, but also in impoverished countries. She hopes to provide sanitary supplies, make medicine more readily available and teach women’s health knowledge to health providers.