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Here's what happens when freedom to speak meets intolerance to listen

by AAMC | October 5, 2023
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In 2018, when an outspoken pro-life advocate was scheduled to speak at an event run by a Christian-based club at University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Anschutz campus (CU Anschutz), in Aurora, a group of pro-choice students argued that the speaker should not be allowed. “As a woman leader in medicine, how can you allow this to happen?” one student demanded of Shanta Zimmer, senior associate dean of medical education.
 
Pushing back on their refusal to discuss different points of view about medical matters, she told them, “That might be an option in your political life outside of school, but as a burgeoning physician, that’s not acceptable.”

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