North Carolina’s Anti-DEI Bill Is Detrimental To Black Maternal Heal

NewsOne Featured Video Source: FatCamera / Getty Heath advocates in North Carolina are sounding the alarm on the state’s proposed anti-DEI bill targeting federally-funded medical schools. Some believe if the legislation passes that it could have a detrimental effect on the work the medical schools are doing to combat the Black maternal health crisis. In March, North Carolina Republican Rep. Greg Murphy introduced the “Embracing Anti-discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act.”  According to a press release by Congressman Greg Murphy, the bill would cut off federal funding to medical schools that force students or faculty to adopt specific beliefs, discriminate based on race or ethnicity, or have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The bill would also require accreditation agencies to check that their standards do not push these practices while still allowing instruction about race-related health issues or collecting data for research. “Discriminatory DEI practices have rapidly permeated medical schools across the country at great harm to the field of medicine,” Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. said in the press release. Political ideology has no place in the classroom, especially when lives are on the line. But health advocates are aggressively pushing back against Republicans and their...