Free Speech Win: Med School Admin Overrides Student Gov To Allow ‘Students For Life’ Club On Campus

Supposed future doctors at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine are furious that some of their classmates believe that the Hippocratic Oath’s line “do no harm” should apply from the moment of conception until natural death.

Well, too bad for those anti-life pupils because administrators at that medical school recently overturned a student government’s decision that would have banned the pro-life group “Midwestern Medical Students For Life” from campus.

“The University and College administration met with students on both sides of this issue, explaining the guidelines and sharing their reasons for the decision to approve this new club, while assuring the students that all medical information is monitored by faculty,” the school told MedPageToday. “Both the Dean of Students and the Dean of the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine are in support of this decision, along with the University President.”

However, not all students agree with that diplomatic response.

“It’s kind of worrisome to be endorsing [Medical Students for Life] on a medical school campus,” medical school student government vice president, Alec, told another media outlet.

It is “dangerous” to have this group on campus, according to students who oppose the club, which is part of the popular national “Students for Life” organization.

“Midwestern University Medical Students for Life disseminates blatant medical misinformation and encourages violent and obstructive behavior towards clinics and providers,” a Midwestern student name Sarah told the media outlet Ms. Magazine.

As for evidence of misinformation, the students claimed that Medical Students for Life advocating “Abortion Pill Reversal” makes it dangerous. They argued that it is not possible to stop a chemical abortion, but the data doesn’t prove that, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

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Another student said that denying somebody an abortion is a “violation of human rights.” The video can be seen here:

Of course, what these students neglect to recognize is that when dealing with a pregnant woman — there are two patients: the mother and the child in the womb. Scientific data has proven that life starts at conception.

However, rather than debate facts about these issues, these students want to shut down any debate on campus. That totalitarianism is now commonplace in American society and isn’t new to higher education. As readers know, it’s now a core part of the Biden White House strategy for dealing with free speech via Big Tech.

What makes this story particularly worrisome is that these are the future doctors of America. If their attitude in college is to not look at all available data, while being arrogant know-it-alls who silence anybody who goes against the status quo or touts politically inconvenient truths, then the American medical establishment is doomed — which is bad news for the patients.

After seeing those same sorts of tactics from doctors and medical bureaucrats who wanted to silence COVID lockdown and vaccine skeptics, we shouldn’t be surprised.

For its part, the school’s administration deserves credit for upholding once common values in America such as diversity of thought and free speech.

The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Invisible Boogeyman Of Systematic Racism’: Black Mom Shreds Minnesota ‘Ethnic Studies’ Bill, Slams Woke Nonsense

Venerable Bishop Fulton Sheen once said, “To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood.”  Using that metric, if America has even a handful of women even remotely close to the caliber of Minnesota mother Kofi Montzka, then we’re doing just all right.

Earlier this week, Monztka took a sledgehammer to Critical Race Theory-inspired education a la “Ethnic Studies” courses that Democrats in The Gopher State want to mandate starting in kindergarten.

Montzka is a volunteer with Take Charge Minnesota, an “organization committed to supporting the notion that the idea of America works for everyone regardless of race and station in life.” She is also an excellent communicator of why the Democrats’ so-called anti-racism crusade is bad for all students — regardless of their skin color — and the country as a whole.

“This bill requires that schools teach ethnic studies starting in kindergarten, and I am against this,” she said on Tuesday. “You might ask, ‘Why in the world would a black person speak against ethnic studies?’ Because not everything that sounds good is good.”

Black mother denounces ethnic studies curriculum in Minnesota: "I see why you white proponents of this bill might support it. It's not your kids being told they can't succeed and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process."pic.twitter.com/Ktkc7RFMes

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 25, 2023

Monztka then drilled down exactly how the bill is racially discriminatory while wrongfully indoctrinating a sense of inferiority amongst minorities while telling them they are “stuck in a caste system.”

“I’m sick of everyone denying the enormous progress we’ve made in this country, acting like it’s 1930,” she continued.

Monztka also compared the class to Jim Crow.

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“This curriculum will not help kids of color succeed. All it does is remove any reason to try,” she said.

“This is not some theoretical crap,” she continued before giving a real-world example where her children’s high school band teacher “took 20 minutes at the beginning of class to talk about anti-racism. He told the kids to look around and then he said the black boys in the school would likely not live to retirement because of racism and the police.”

Montzka wasn’t done. She directly called out the white leftist adults pushing this “hopelessness” onto children.

“I can see why you white proponents of this bill might support it,” she said. “It’s not your kids being told that they can’t succeed and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process, but you legislators of color — how can you?”

Montzka argued that they all succeeded “despite the invisible Boogeyman of systematic racism” and were voted in by “a majority of white people” to hold “some of the most powerful positions in this state.”

The woman was praised endlessly on social media for her comments.

In response, DailyWire+ host Dr. Jordan B. Peterson tweeted, “The reason the curriculum ‘removes any reason to try’ is because the point of the curriculum is to deny the utility of trying.”

“This is precisely how unconscientious people rationalize their parasitism,” he added. “And cloak that rationalization in the guise of moral virtue.”

Black mother denounces ethnic studies curriculum in Minnesota: "I see why you white proponents of this bill might support it. It's not your kids being told they can't succeed and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process."pic.twitter.com/Ktkc7RFMes

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 25, 2023

It’s rare that something is must-watch, but Montzka’s statements fit that description.

The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.