Doctor who claims to 'reverse' abortions told to stop listing affiliation with medical school
The doctor's claims have been behind for a string of anti-abortion laws
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Your support makes all the difference.A doctor who falsely claimed to have invented a method of “reversing” abortion was ordered to stop affiliating himself with a prestigious US medical school.
Dr George Delgado serves as the medical director for Culture of Life Family Services, a San Diego pro-life organisation that claims to offer Dr Delgado’s medically impossible reverse abortion treatment among its anti-abortion services, advertised as “Christ-centred medical care.”
On his Scripps public profile, the California doctor lists himself as a “voluntary associate professor in the department of Family and Preventive Medicine” At the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He adds that he as “given numerous presentations to various groups on medical and bioethical topics.”
But today it was revealed that UCSD asked him to stop listing that affiliation last year.
Dr Delgado did serve as a voluntary clinical associate professor beginning in 2005, according to a statement to The Guardian from the university’s spokesperson, but left in June 2011. The same year, he began practising at Culture of Life Family Services.
The spokesperson could not describes Dr Delgado’s duties for the school, where he worked in the department of family medicine, but said that his position was unpaid, and that the role was possibly “as little as teaching a class once a year.”
Dr Delgado told the Guardian he removed the listing of his practice after receiving the request from the school, but as of today it's still online.
The reversal method Culture of Life claims has been refuted as “not supported by science” by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, but at least five statements have forced abortion providers to tell patients abortion reversal is possible in 2019. In June, the American Medical Association sued one state, North Dakota, for implementing that practice.
Culture of Life Family Services clinics located in Escondido and San Diego, California were included in successful applications for federal family planning funding approved by the Trump administration. They have also received funding from grand proposals approved by the administration for the Obria Group, an anti-abortion group that runs crisis pregnancy centres, which operate by lying to people attempting obtain abortions until the patient is too far along in their pregnancy to safely undergo the procedure.