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Doctors in the Aermers’ Bar Association Group are calling for federal agencies to delete information from their websites that regularly use health care professionals and researchers.
The non -profit group based on the left filed its request to the United States DC District Court. He is demanding at the Personnel Management Office (OPM), in the Centers of Control and Prevention of Diseases (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department. of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Public Citizen Litigation Group is representing the organization.
After President Trump signed an executive order stating that the United States will only Recognize two sexesFederal health agencies began to rub its websites of materials that the executive order said “to promote gender ideology”.
This caused some websites to be mistakenly removed when federal employees traveled to fulfill their order, with several HIV/AIDS web pages that were temporarily demolished.
The complaint states that “the removal of web pages and data sets creates a dangerous vacuum in scientific data available to control and respond to disease outbreaks, deprives the clinical practice of resources and take key resources for Communicate and participate with patients. “
Demand cited several key websites that have been withdrawn since the executive order of Trump’s “gender ideology”, including the Youth Risk Risk Behavioral System, the data and statistics website. For the health of adolescents and schoolchildren and the web pages for the Index of Social Vulnerability.
“These federal agencies exist to attend the North -American people protecting public health,” said Zach Shelley, prosecutor of the Citizen Litigation Group and the main counselors of the case. “Elimination of this vital information comes from this mandate. Our demand aims to maintain their responsibilities before the people of this country. “
Several websites that provide guidance on the prescription of HIV preparation and the monitoring of the disease were also cited as key resources that North -Americans consider to be demolished.
“Like many of my colleagues, I am a doctor who takes care of patients and a researcher. The deletion of information and clinical data sets of critical clinical data of the CDC, FDA and HHS websites not only puts at risk the health of our patients, but also the research of endangers that improves the health and health care of the health North -American audiences, “said Ramachandran, a member of his doctors for the Board of Directors of America.
Doctors for America claim three counts against OPM, CDC, HHS and FDA. He claims that the actions of the OPM have passed their legal authority; that both the CDC and the HHS have violated the Law on Reduction of Procedures and the Administrative Procedure Law (APA); And that the FDA also violated the APA.
The group asks that a Federal Judge declare the actions of the agencies that are illegal and that the agencies restore the web pages and the data sets that have been demolished.
The hill has contacted the federal agencies named in the demand for comments.
