Documents Show How Conservative Doctors Influenced Abortion, Trans Rights
While many on the left are familiar with his famous quote regarding voting, among the worse fallout of Ur-conservative Paul Weyrich’s legacy of evil conservative philosophy is the thought that religious conservatives should hold themselves apart because the culture war was lost; and that they should create their own radical and insurgent institutions to counter anything mainstream while discrediting all real institutions. This is just another example of a false association of “pediatricians” to counter the science driven direction of the real American Association of Pediatrics and other mainstream medical associations such as the AMA, etc.
This group doesn’t exist to fight tobacco use by youths, their evil raison d’etre is to consistently attack gay and trans youths through disinformation campaigns and they are zealots driven by old school Weyrich dominionist Christian nationalism.
A small group of conservative doctors has sought to shape the nation’s most contentious policies on abortion and transgender rights by promoting views rejected by the medical establishment as scientific fact, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post that describe the group’s internal strategies.
The records show that after long struggling to attract members, the American College of Pediatricians gained outsize political influence in recent years, primarily by using conservative media as a megaphone in its quest to position the group as a reputable source of information.
The organization has successfully lobbied since 2021 for laws in more than a half-dozen states that ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths, with its representatives testifying before state legislatures against the guidelines recommended by mainstream medical groups, according to its records. It gained further national prominence this year as one of the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit to limit access to mifepristone, a key abortion drug.
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