Legal Rights in The Pitt Episode About ICE in Hospitals
In a recent episode of HBO’s hit medical procedural show The Pitt, two agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enter the emergency department.
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Across the United States, immigrant patients and their families are increasingly facing a harsh reality: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are appearing near or even inside hospitals. Published Author Share Across the United States, immigrant patients and their families are increasingly facing a harsh reality: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are appearing near or even…
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The Hastings Center’s Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Covid-19 (March 2020) established foundational duties for responding to a public health emergency. Building on recent work by Julie M. Linton and colleagues and Mark Kuczewski, we adapt The Hastings Center’s Covid-19 guidance to create a new practical ethical framework for responding to current…
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Legal scholars, immigrant rights advocates, and health professionals have been calling for the end of solitary confinement in immigration detention for more than a decade. But the use of this inhumane treatment has only increased. In a recently published report, researchers from Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and Physicians for Human Rights exposed the expansion…
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By Hannah Rahim In January 2024, Pope Francis called for a universal ban on surrogacy as a threat to global peace and human dignity, claiming that the practice is a “grave violation” of the mother and child’s dignity and based on the “exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs.” Surrogacy raises complex ethical and…
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Read more: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights
Immigrants are now even more vulnerable to reproductive oppression in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs.
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Attacks on the health care system in Ukraine can be prosecuted as war crimes and must be.
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We are currently at a crossroads: The underlying issues of speciesism and the anthropocentric bias of law are increasingly contested.
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