Pro-Life Generation News

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21 Dec 2023

Students for Life of America’s Top 10 Worst Free Speech Violations in 2023  

Caroline Wharton | December 21, 2023
As most schools wrap up the fall semester and 2023 comes to an end, ‘tis the season for looking back — and as we do so, we remember all the free speech trials the Pro-Life Generation had to bravely face when exercising their First Amendment rights. From the very beginning of the year to even just recently, Students for Life
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07 Dec 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill Appears to Choke Pro-Life Free Speech with Excessive, Discriminatory Fees After Kristan Hawkins’ Tour Stop 

Caroline Wharton | December 7, 2023
GUEST POST: In mid-October this semester, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Students for Life of America (SFLA) group — called the “Carolina Students for Life” — hosted SFLA President Kristan Hawkins on campus for her fall speaking tour entitled “I’m Coming for Your Abortion Access.”    The Carolina Students for Life worked hard to organize the event over
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12 Oct 2023

FIGHTING BACK: Our Ohio Community College is Censoring Us, But We Won’t Be Silenced With SFLA’s Help  

Caroline Wharton | October 12, 2023
GUEST POST: In order to protect the preborn, we need to be able to speak up for them — but at Lorain County Community College (LCCC), our First Amendment rights are being taken away by our school administration. There have been multiple questionable instances of censorship, but we are fighting back in order to preserve our free speech rights after
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04 Oct 2023

Free Speech Rights & Digestive Systems Under Attack on College Campuses; Pro-Lifers Mobbed as Pro-Abortion Students Eat Plastic Fetal Models

Caroline Wharton | October 4, 2023
A New York Phenomenon? In 2023, Students Have Chowed Down on Plastic Preborn Babies at Three Different NY Schools  “I’m seriously worried about New York abortion supporters’ eating habits…not to mention their moral compasses. The stories I hear from our students and the mistreatment that I receive myself when going on campus for merely being pro-life is getting worse,” said Students for Life of
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20 Sep 2023

NO SURPRISE HERE: Harvard Got an “Abysmal” Free Speech Rating as Pro-Life Speech Heavily Censored in Schools Across the Country  

Caroline Wharton | September 20, 2023
GUEST POST: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released its annual college free speech rankings recently, and Harvard University — one of our nation’s most acclaimed institutions — came in dead last.  The state of the Ivy League university’s free speech was labelled “abysmal” and given a 0/100. FIRE even went so far as to say that Harvard
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29 Aug 2023

SFLA Files Amicus Brief in New York Free Speech Case Where Peaceful Pro-Lifers were Silenced as Others Allowed to Speak 

Caroline Wharton | August 29, 2023
SFLA Pens Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Petitioner in Debra A. Vitagliano v. County Of Westchester, New York     “Why Should Wearing a Hot Dog Costume to Hawk a Restaurant be treated differently than a Pro-Life Volunteer Offering Mothers Free Resources?” said Students for Life of America’s Kristan Hawkins.   WASHINGTON D.C. (08-24-2023) – Students for Life of America filed an amicus curiae brief (friend
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29 Aug 2023

Pro-Life & Headed Back to School? Here’s a Few School Supplies, Including a Hazmat Suit, You Might Want to Consider

Caroline Wharton | August 29, 2023
Being pro-life on campus is no cakewalk — just ask the leader of the Pro-Life Generation who encourages and stands by students as they regularly get cut down for their life-affirming beliefs. In a new op-ed published at the Washington Times, Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins acknowledged the bravery of pro-life students going into the 2023 – 2024
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28 Aug 2023

FOURTH TIME IS A CHARM: New Jersey University Student Senate FINALLY Gets the Message that Viewpoint Discrimination is Wrong

Caroline Wharton | August 28, 2023
Contrary to popular belief, the fourth time is apparently the charm — at least when it comes to having your free speech rights respected at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The school’s prospective Students for Life of America (SFLA) group is looking forward to finally having official campus status after being wrongfully denied three times by their Student Senate. Now, after
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18 Aug 2023

In Case You Missed It: Some of the Best Media Hits from Our Washington D.C. Free Speech Victory

Caroline Wharton | August 18, 2023
It’s been splashed across the papers, radio talk shows, and television news since the almost unbelievable happened: an appellate court agreed that there was evidence of Washington D.C. discriminating against Students for Life of America’s pro-life free speech! Surprise, surprise; the First Amendment may actually apply to everyone equally — who knew? Not pro-life students…but we’ll find out as this case continues to
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15 Aug 2023

FREE SPEECH VICTORY: Circuit Court Finds Evidence of Viewpoint Discrimination for Excluding SFLA’s Pro-Life Perspective in Washington D.C. Case

Caroline Wharton | August 15, 2023
With pro-abortion attacks on free speech rising across the country, a new First Amendment victory for Students for Life of America (SFLA) is well worth celebrating as this well-overdue win makes it clear that viewpoint discrimination cannot be tolerated. A Circuit Court found evidence that the District of Columbia (D.C.) had censored pro-life free speech when officials arrested SFLA activists
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