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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Meeting with VP

According to a piece in Inside Higher Ed today, the only UC representative among a group of college presidents attending a meeting with VP Kamala Harris on the recent US Supreme Court abortion ruling, was UC-Irvine's chancellor, Howard Gillman:

..."We are very worried about the existing legal protections for our out-of-state patients and especially for our out-of-state students who use our student health facilities because the privacy protections around those student health facilities are different than the privacy protections that you see in other clinical settings," said Gillman.

The presidents were especially concerned with how the Dobbs ruling could impact medical school offerings.

"The entire public health ecosystem of the country in training people, the next generation of medical practitioners, in family planning and obstetrics and gynecology is going to be severely disrupted," said Gillman...

Full article at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/09/vice-president-meets-college-presidents-abortion.

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