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Michael Ejercito
Jul 27, 2022, 1:38:12 AM7/27/22
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UM Med Students Walk Out On Anti-Abortion Keynote Speaker Dr. Kristin
Collier
July 25, 2022 at 3:42 pmFiled Under:Kristin Collier, University of
Michigan, white coat ceremony
(CNN) — Dozens of incoming University of Michigan medical students
walked out of their medical school induction ceremony Sunday to protest
a keynote speaker with anti-abortion views.
As Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of internal medicine at
the university, began delivering her keynote speech, several dozen
students abruptly stood up and began filing out of the auditorium, video
shows. Some audience members can also be seen leaving.
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Before Sunday’s White Coat Ceremony, in which incoming medical students
are cloaked with their first medical coats, some students had petitioned
the school to replace Collier with another speaker, citing her
anti-abortion views.
“While we support the rights of freedom of speech and religion, an
anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan
undermines the University’s position on abortion and supports the
non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an
essential part of medical care,” the petition reads.
Medical student Elliott Brannon, who helped organize the petition, told
CNN more than 300 medical students signed it. The walkout and petition
were mostly organized by incoming medical students with the support of
current students, Brannon said.
“This is not simply a disagreement on personal opinion,” the petition
said. “(T)hrough our demand, we are standing up in solidarity against
groups who are trying to take away human rights and restrict medical care.”
Collier, who also directs the medical school’s program on health,
spirituality and religion, has previously expressed anti-abortion views,
including in a May 4 tweet.
“(H)olding on to a view of feminism where one fights for the rights of
all women and girls, especially those who are most vulnerable. I can’t
not lament the violence directed at my prenatal sisters in the act of
abortion, done in the name of autonomy,” the tweet read, later adding,
“Liberation that costs innocent lives is just oppression that is
redistributed.”
The university told CNN Collier was chosen to be the keynote speaker by
members of the medical school’s Gold Humanism Honor Society. In a
statement, the university stood by the decision to keep her as the event
speaker.
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“The White Coat Ceremony is not a platform for discussion of
controversial issues,” the statement said. “Its focus will always be on
welcoming students into the profession of medicine. Dr. Collier never
planned to address a divisive topic as part of her remarks. However, the
University of Michigan does not revoke an invitation to a speaker based
on their personal beliefs.”
The university also reiterated that its reproductive care still includes
abortion.
“The University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine remain committed to
providing high quality, safe reproductive care for patients, across all
their reproductive health needs. This includes abortion care,” the
statement said.
Following the Supreme Court‘s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion
remains legal in Michigan. While the state had a 1931 abortion ban on
the books, the restriction is temporarily blocked by a state court.
CNN reached out to Collier for comment but has not received a response.
Collier said during the ceremony that she was honored to be chosen to
speak. Before giving a speech to the new students about how to survive
and flourish in the medical field, she appeared to nod to the controversy.
“I want to acknowledge the deep wounds our community has suffered over
the past several weeks,” she said. “We have a great deal of work to do
for healing to occur and I hope that for today, for this time, we can
focus on what matters most, coming together to support our newly
accepted students and their families with a goal of welcoming them into
one of the greatest vocations that exists on this earth — the vocation
of medicine.”
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UM Med Students Walk Out On Anti-Abortion Keynote Speaker Dr. Kristin
Collier
July 25, 2022 at 3:42 pmFiled Under:Kristin Collier, University of
Michigan, white coat ceremony
(CNN) — Dozens of incoming University of Michigan medical students
walked out of their medical school induction ceremony Sunday to protest
a keynote speaker with anti-abortion views.
As Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of internal medicine at
the university, began delivering her keynote speech, several dozen
students abruptly stood up and began filing out of the auditorium, video
shows. Some audience members can also be seen leaving.
Michigan Matters: Full Roundtable Politics
READ MORE:
Mayor Duggan Pushes For 2020 Census Appeal
Before Sunday’s White Coat Ceremony, in which incoming medical students
are cloaked with their first medical coats, some students had petitioned
the school to replace Collier with another speaker, citing her
anti-abortion views.
“While we support the rights of freedom of speech and religion, an
anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan
undermines the University’s position on abortion and supports the
non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an
essential part of medical care,” the petition reads.
Medical student Elliott Brannon, who helped organize the petition, told
CNN more than 300 medical students signed it. The walkout and petition
were mostly organized by incoming medical students with the support of
current students, Brannon said.
“This is not simply a disagreement on personal opinion,” the petition
said. “(T)hrough our demand, we are standing up in solidarity against
groups who are trying to take away human rights and restrict medical care.”
Collier, who also directs the medical school’s program on health,
spirituality and religion, has previously expressed anti-abortion views,
including in a May 4 tweet.
“(H)olding on to a view of feminism where one fights for the rights of
all women and girls, especially those who are most vulnerable. I can’t
not lament the violence directed at my prenatal sisters in the act of
abortion, done in the name of autonomy,” the tweet read, later adding,
“Liberation that costs innocent lives is just oppression that is
redistributed.”
The university told CNN Collier was chosen to be the keynote speaker by
members of the medical school’s Gold Humanism Honor Society. In a
statement, the university stood by the decision to keep her as the event
speaker.
READ MORE:
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“The White Coat Ceremony is not a platform for discussion of
controversial issues,” the statement said. “Its focus will always be on
welcoming students into the profession of medicine. Dr. Collier never
planned to address a divisive topic as part of her remarks. However, the
University of Michigan does not revoke an invitation to a speaker based
on their personal beliefs.”
The university also reiterated that its reproductive care still includes
abortion.
“The University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine remain committed to
providing high quality, safe reproductive care for patients, across all
their reproductive health needs. This includes abortion care,” the
statement said.
Following the Supreme Court‘s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion
remains legal in Michigan. While the state had a 1931 abortion ban on
the books, the restriction is temporarily blocked by a state court.
CNN reached out to Collier for comment but has not received a response.
Collier said during the ceremony that she was honored to be chosen to
speak. Before giving a speech to the new students about how to survive
and flourish in the medical field, she appeared to nod to the controversy.
“I want to acknowledge the deep wounds our community has suffered over
the past several weeks,” she said. “We have a great deal of work to do
for healing to occur and I hope that for today, for this time, we can
focus on what matters most, coming together to support our newly
accepted students and their families with a goal of welcoming them into
one of the greatest vocations that exists on this earth — the vocation
of medicine.”
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HeartDoc Andrew
Jul 27, 2022, 2:19:13 AM7/27/22
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abortion rights' thereby reminding us that abortions are the terrible
consequence of #TerriblyHungry people misbehaving terribly like
#Jan621 Insurrectionist #HangryDJT and motivates us to redouble our
efforts to #ConvinceItForward to stop being #Hangry in hopes of
stopping the #MourningInAmerica" -- HeartDoc Andrew
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLbY86WqEQE&lc=Ugz7f-yaXdea7oYt3dR4AaABAg
Shorter more shareable link:
https://tinyurl.com/RoeWadeOverturned
Suggested further reading:
http://bit.ly/h_angry (2 Kings 6:29)
Instead of hangry, I am simply wonderfully hungry (
http://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) and hope you, Michael, also have a
healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Michael Ejercito
Jul 27, 2022, 11:10:31 AM7/27/22
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Michael
HeartDoc Andrew
Jul 27, 2022, 11:41:57 AM7/27/22
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Michael Ejercito wrote:
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as circling eagles don't have COVID) and
pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in
Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit
(Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to always
say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including
especially caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12
as shown by http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://tinyurl.com/HeartVAT from around the heart
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as circling eagles don't have COVID) and
pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in
Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit
(Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to always
say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including
especially caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12
as shown by http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://tinyurl.com/HeartVAT from around the heart
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