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Ohio State health sciences program sparks controversy with mandatory ‘privilege’ assignments

A health sciences course at The Ohio State University asks students to address their “privileges” if they are white, heterosexual, or able-bodied. The course, which has been offered since 2009, is entitled “Individual Differences in Patient/Client Populations” and is administered as a part of Ohio State’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, according to the Daily […]

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Ohio’s Top Children’s Hospital Coaches Doctors To Circumvent Parents Wary Of Trans Treatments, Training Videos Show

An Ohio hospital that actively lobbied Republican Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a ban on transgender procedures for minors has grossly misrepresented its approach to parental involvement in decisions, according to internal training videos obtained by The Daily Wire.  Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which both hosted DeWine onsite ahead of his veto of the ban on transgender procedures […]

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Do No Harm v. Jon Bel Edwards / Jeff Landry

The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners regulates, licenses, and investigates doctors to ensure they meet the high standards of the profession. Physicians serving on the Board are required to have been licensed for at least five years and have resided in Louisiana for no less than six months. There is also one consumer member […]

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Physician Group Settles Suit Over Program for Black Doctors

Do No Harm, a healthcare professionals advocacy group, says it agreed to settle the challenge it brought against a physician-owned healthcare group’s leadership program for Black doctors. The advocacy group argued Vituity’s Bridge to Brilliance program, meant to bridge opportunity gaps for historically marginalized groups, violated the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Affordable […]

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Doctors Call for Withdrawal of Psychiatry Textbook Promoting ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care

Nearly 170 health professionals have signed an open letter to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) condemning its new “gender-affirming” care textbook as “unacceptable, unethical and unsafe.” Their open letter to the organization appears on the website of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, a free speech and civil liberties watchdog group. The signatories demand that […]

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Do No Harm Board Member Edward Blum Named 2023 Man of the Year

It’s not clear that the Civil Rights Movement could have succeeded without the Jews.

Henry Moscowitz helped W.E.B. Du Bois found the NAACP. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel joined Martin Luther King Jr. in King’s march on Selma. Jewish donors supplied the capital for numerous civil rights organizations and black colleges, and in 1964, Jews made up half of the participants in the Freedom Summer project, a voter registration drive aimed at black Mississippians.

So it’s only fitting that the civil rights hero of our own time is himself a Jew—born to Yiddish-speaking cobblers, no less.

Since the 1990s, Edward Blum has worked tirelessly to dismantle a sordid, state-backed regime of racial discrimination that has structured and subverted nearly every institution in the United States. His first victory, in 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder, chipped away at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a patently unconstitutional law that gerrymanders electoral districts based on race and assumes all minorities vote the same way.

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Gov. Mike DeWine Vetoes Bill Protecting Kids From ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill to protect minors from experimental transgender medical interventions that are euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.” DeWine, a Republican, framed his veto of House Bill 68 on Friday as an effort to bring consensus on a divisive issue and to avoid having the government decide what medical decisions are […]

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Penn affiliates want merit and ‘intellectual diversity’ to guide university

The University of Pennsylvania should reorient itself to support “intellectual diversity” and merit, according to some students, faculty, and alumni. “A Vision for a New Future of the University of Pennsylvania,” comes after Penn’s former president, Liz Magill, resigned earlier this month following remarks she made regarding antisemitism on campus in a hearing with federal lawmakers. The constitution calls for a […]

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Major medical association slammed for offering ‘segregated’ scholarships to students

The largest association of physicians in the U.S. is limiting some of its scholarships to only students of certain racial groups, drawing criticism from a healthcare researcher. The American Medical Association (AMA) is currently offering 14 scholarships under its “Physicians of Tomorrow” program. The program gives $10,000 in tuition assistance scholarships to medical students entering […]