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Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America stated, "Universities can not arbitrarily single out some views for warning signs. In doing so, they prime students to avoid and be offended by certain topics. While groups should be free to put up their own warning signs, no school should impose on schools this extra tax on speech, by influencing students to avoid certain displays. Thanks to the U.S. Constitution, the United States is a free speech zone, something that school administrators should remember and respect."
Bethany Janzen, Rocky Mountain regional coordinator for Students for Life added, ““When I arrived on campus and found ‘Free Speech Zone’ warning signs surrounding the location of our We Care Tour, I was shocked. Over the past two years, I’ve hosted with the club multiple displays, including our fall ‘Stop the Violence’ Tour during which we handed out info cards with graphic descriptions of abortion. There had never been warning signs placed around those displays. But now when we are handing out consent cards and self-defense whistles and discussing how we can help both survivors of sexual assault (if an unexpected pregnancy results), there are warning signs? With 14 reported rapes at UNM in 2016, this is something that we need to address openly.” Recently, Miami University-Hamilton Students for Life settled a lawsuit with their university over the uneven application of trigger warnings. In that case, the university sought to impose on the group mandatory warning signs in front of the group’s Cemetery of the Innocents display, even though the university had not applied the policy to other group’s displays. For further questions or to schedule an interview, please contact Matt Lamb at mlamb@studentsforlife.org