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Planned Parenthood has established an abortion rotation at the Yale School of Medicine. And what if you choose to opt out of this course? “There’s pressure from the program directors that you will participate in this,” explains Rudd. “In fact, you’re very likely to get blackballed before you even get accepted into a program unless you’re willing to participate.” I can’t say that this surprises me. Keep in mind that Yale will not allow ROTC on campus because of the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy yet they had no problem accepting Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban as a student. I guess they don’t really want a diverse crowd of all beliefs, but a diverse crowd of their beliefs!
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I sure love the way the right defends the Boy Scounts of America’s policy of excluding gay scouts because “it is a private organization, and they can exclude anyone they want” (actually the BSA *DOES* get government funding, but that’s another story). And yet when a private organization like Yale wants to pressure future doctors into doing an abortion rotation we criticize them for being not being diverse.
..Chuck..
Chuck- I am not getting your analogy here. Yale is pressuring the kids to go along with the abortion..do it or you don’t go to med school here. In the actual school of medicine, the procedure is covered…this is above and beyond. What does that have to do with the BSA? Yale also keeps ROTC off campus because of the military policy for gays, yet lets a Taliban member in..The Taliban executes gays…Not getting the correlation.
Peejz - That’s not how I read it. A “rotation” is when a “doctor in training” does a short stint in a medical specialty. This enables the student to broaden themselves and see if it is a specialty they’d like to pursue as a career. The “abortion rotation” is simply a chance for students to get experience in a clinical setting and to see if it’s a speciality that they want to pursue. At no time during a rotation is a student required to undergo any procedures related to that rotation (although that does bring up humorous images of male students doing OB/GYN rotations). The pressure the students are likely feeling is probably not borne out of politics, but from the school trying to make sure their students have the best medical education possible.
I sympathize with the students though. While I am personally in favor of letting a woman choose to have an abortion (until we solve the larger problems that cause her to want the abortion in the first place), it must be incredibly difficult to stand up like that in such a competitive environment. I applaud them.
In case it’s still a bit muddy, my analogy basically relates to the fundamental right of private institutions to have self determination. If conservatives support the fact that the Boy Scouts of America can exclude gays, then let’s be consistent and let Yale University determine its medical school curriculum.
..Chuck..