Category: free speech

Pro-Life Violations Extend Beyond American College Campuses: UK Preacher Convicted for Displaying Bible Verse Sign Outside Abortion Facility
Jordan Butler | February 5, 2024
Free speech violations on college campuses continue to make the news, and for good reason. Students for Life of America’s (SLFA) findings last year pointed towards the second most significant issue among pro-lifers on campus: speech censorship by school administrations. This issue isn’t isolated to school campuses in the United States. Recently, UK Christian preacher Stephen Green was prosecuted

Student Perspective: An Abortion Doula Lectured to My Class
Jordan Butler | February 1, 2024
GUEST POST: Last week, something happened that I never could have imagined in my wildest dreams: an abortion doula actually came to lecture in my class. On Tuesday, Jan. 23, I had the unpleasant experience of listening to Rachel Carbonneau, a self-described “abortion doula,” share her experience counseling abortion and transgender patients. In high school, I was severely bullied for

VICTORY: UNC-Chapel Hill Backs Down on Discriminatory Fees Placed on SFLA President Kristan Hawkins Campus Event
Caroline Wharton | January 24, 2024
Free speech has tasted victory once again with help from Students for Life of America (SFLA) legal counsel. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has agreed to back down after surprising the campus SFLA group — called the “Carolina Students for Life” — with seemingly discriminatory fees following a SFLA President Kristan Hawkins speaking tour stop at the school last fall. Here’s what happened: As SFLA reported

Despite Pro-Abortion Buffer Laws, Survey Shows Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Want Sidewalk Counseling Protected
Caroline Wharton | January 18, 2024
A new poll is showing that the majority of Americans want free speech to be fashionable again, especially when it comes to the life issue. In an age where pro-life activists are continually discriminated against, particularly in their sidewalk counseling advocacy as First Amendment rights are not equally respected, such data is especially interesting. Here’s what you need to know

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

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

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

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

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

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

