Students and faculty at Stanford are criticizing the university’s medical school for a letter released in response to the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a move that will result in restrictions on the procedure in many states across the country.
Perhaps in response to the criticism, Stanford Medicine administrators later sent out an apparent quasi-apology statement Sunday night, saying they wished to add “additional perspective” to their earlier comments.
The saga began hours after Friday’s ruling, when Dr. Lloyd Minor — the dean of the university’s school of medicine — sent a letter to the Stanford community that, according to critics, paid undue attention to the feelings of anti-abortion advocates and seemed to imply that the university’s medical center would continue performing the procedure only because it’s required under California law.
“First, we want to acknowledge that this is a controversial issue,” the letter said. “We know that many in our community have strong opinions and are processing the news differently. In this moment, we simply wish to express our care and concern for our community members, appreciating that people are feeling a range of emotions and have different needs.”
In a later paragraph, the letter said access to abortion on Stanford’s campus remains unchanged despite the ruling.
Michele Dauber — a law professor at Stanford — posted a copy of the letter to Twitter, saying it was “offensive.” In an email to SFGATE, Dauber said the letter didn’t go far enough in reaffirming the importance of abortion access as a health care need.
“I think that Stanford’s statement on this that it would ‘follow California law’ is weak sauce,” she said. “It would have been more appropriate in my view to reaffirm that abortion care is essential women’s healthcare, rather than … leave the impression that abortion is a controversial issue and Stanford … only is providing services because there is state law requiring it to do so.”
Full story at SFGate.com.
Original headline was: Stanford Medicine put out a statement about Roe v. Wade. People weren’t happy.
Liberals are not only dumb, they’re weak and thin-skinned and intolerant.
Ripe for a brush fire, those hills are.
Very dumb, for a big-name school like Stanford, and its school of medicine. Medical science and practice is certainly not based fraudulently on how you feel emotionally. Where is their objective commitment to a code of ethics, the Oath of Hippocrates, the training of a physician to uphold our Judeo-Christian morality, the 10 Commandments, and more– in the community they will practice medicine in? Where is their solid commitment to Respect life, and to save lives? Where is their commitment to refer women with crisis pregnancies to free pregnancy clinics with good, comprehensive medical care– plus, adoption services?
They always eat their own.
It’s very clear. The oligarchic elite (who are not adherents of Christ but belong to another religion) used Roe V Wade to create a two tiered system, the Fetuses vs the Powerful. Just has a fetus has no rights whose fate is determined by the will of another, Catholics have no rights. The Catholic voice in the public square is immediately shut down and squashed by the will of another. The Catholic voice has been relegated to that of fetuses who have no rights.
gee ….. has their outrage over a building and/or campus street
named after Padre Serra finally died down enough so they’re
now emotionally free to be outraged over Roe???
What was the “outrage du jour” just before the Dobbs decision?
Their adrenal glands must be the size of casaba melons.
We share a common humanity. When an innocent member of the human race is killed, we all feel sorrow and pain. Human life begins at conception. To deny that tiny human life the most basic right to exist is cruel. It is a barbaric act to tear apart and destroy that tiny, developing human life. Abortion is an egregious abuse of human rights.