Category: Free-Speech

Midwifery Student Suspended Because She Believes Babies Should be Born
Jessica Nardi | December 16, 2020
A pro-life student at the University of Nottingham in England won a recent settlement after she was suspended from her midwife program for supporting the dignity of life. In her final year of study, Julia Rynkiewicz’s “fitness to practice” was questioned by the program because she served as president of the school’s Students for Life group. Rynkiewicz had to

Pro-Choice Vandals Tear Up Pro-Life Display, Throw in Trash Can
Brenna Lewis | December 3, 2020
Pro-choice students at Miami University in Ohio have a serious tolerance problem. In recent years, Miami Students for Life has not been able to do a single event without facing over-the-top aggression from peers. That’s bad enough, but the fact that the school administration has taken no real action to defend the free speech of their students is even worse. At

Discrimination Towards a Students for Life Group… At a Catholic University!
Brenna Lewis | November 6, 2020
The University of Dayton is a Catholic school in the Marian tradition (the Society of Mary) located in Dayton, Ohio. As such, one would think the campus Students for Life group would be safe from the same sorts of discrimination and harassment students face at public schools. Sadly… no. The first week of November, the group, Flyers for Life,

Minnesota Students (Again) Harassed for Pro-Life Message
Brenna Lewis | November 6, 2020
October means National Chalk Day—which actually takes place over several days—where students get to show off their creativity when it comes to communicating the pro-life message. With more reports of students participating, however, comes more incidents of vandalism, similar to other incidents we’ve recently seen. After being prevented from doing so earlier in the month due to snow, students at the Winona State University participated in

Hateful Abortion Supporters Flood Pro-Life Post with Over 400 Comments
Brenna Lewis | November 6, 2020
Here we go again: another Students for Life group is being harassed big-time on social media by a horde of hateful abortion supporters. This time, it’s SUNY Potsdam in New York. The group has over 100 followers… and about 400 comments on one of their recent Instagram posts. Most of them are ugly. The post in question that was getting

California Student Faces Harassment for Starting Students for Life Group
Brenna Lewis | November 6, 2020
Instances of online harassment towards Students for Life groups have absolutely skyrocketed recently. It’s not like it wasn’t happening in years past; but our team at Students for Life is now receiving reports of internet hostility almost daily. Today’s comes from a public high school in California where Faith Rodriguez leads a brand-new Students for Life group. Immediately after starting the

Vandals with Zero Creativity Mess with Chalk in Louisiana
Brenna Lewis | November 2, 2020
While student members of the Pro-Life Cajuns group at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette encourage voters with life-affirming chalk messages, they’re met with suppression and vandalism. Such is yet another attempt to silence pro-life students who want to use their voices to speak out in favor of the preborn, while also informing their peers about the issue. As the election quickly approaches, there are

Meet Lauren, a Colorado Mom Working to End Late-Term Abortion
Brenna Lewis | November 2, 2020
Coloradans this election have the opportunity to vote on something BIG – and it’s all thanks to an army of pro-life advocates in the Denver area who made it happen. Currently, it’s legal in Colorado to abort a child up until birth for any reason. This beautiful, mountain state is one of seven states in the U.S. with this

What’s an Intolerant Pro-Choice Student’s Weapon of Choice? Cups of Water.
Brenna Lewis | October 29, 2020
Life-affirming sidewalk chalking is a popular and powerful method to communicate the pro-life message. Yet it is sadly it’s become common for such messages to be wiped away by abortion supporters, even if it means silencing those whom they disagree with. These vandals used to be cowards in the night, erasing messages then disappearing. Nowadays, that isn’t always the case.

University Student Government labels a Proposed Pro-Life Club a “Hate Group,” Denies Students for Life’s Application
Kristi Hamrick | October 16, 2020
A University Student Government labels a Proposed Pro-Life Club a “Hate Group,” Denies Students for Life’s Application University of Northern Iowa Student Government engages in viewpoint discrimination against fellow students, school’s Supreme Court backs them up CEDAR FALLS, IA (10-16-20) – The NISG (Northern Iowa Student Government) rejected the request for approval of a UNI Students for Life group after a long and charged discussion