As midwives, nurses, physicians and public health practitioners, and as patients ourselves, we cannot accept the president’s domestic gag rule—which inserts politics into the patient-provider relationship and puts women across the country at risk.
Author: Concerned Clinicians and Public Health Scholars
Concerned Clinicians and Public Health Scholars Dedicated to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Services is a cohort of nurses, midwives and public health researchers. Together, they represent 10 distinct institutions including colleges, universities, hospitals and clinics: University of California, San Francisco (Monica R. McLemore, Diane Tober, Lisa Stern, Ifeyinwa Asiodu); University of Washington, Bothell (Meghan Eagen-Torkko); University of Texas, Austin (Michelle Wright); University of California, Davis (Jessica Draughon Moret); Morehouse School of Medicine (H. Didi Saint Louis); University of Minnesota School of Public Health (Rachel Hardeman); University of Southern Indiana (Grace Howard); University of Illinois at Chicago (Stephanie Tillman); Five College Consortium/Planned Parenthood Massachusetts (Cory Ellen Gatrall) and Seattle Pacific University (Marit Knutson).