‘We’ve Never Seen Them At This Scale’: Pro-Abortion Activists Silence Pro-Life Students At Record Rates Post-Roe
Brandon Poulter on June 13, 2023
Pro-life college students suffered over 100 free speech violations and numerous violent acts on campus in the 2022-2023 school year, according to a report released by Students for Life of America (SFLA) Tuesday.
Theft or destruction of property was the most common incident reported, with tables being flipped and pro-life materials being destroyed. Free speech violations tripled this school year, with pro-life students being attacked as well as shouted down in an attempt to silence them, according to the report.
One incident at the Hunter College New York City campus resulted in a professor flipping a table while yelling “propaganda” and saying, “you’re not educating shit” to pro-life students. This professor later wielded a machete against a New York Post reporter who attempted to question her on the incident. Another incident at Williams and Mary College involved urine being thrown onto pro-life students.
PROFESSOR GONE WILD: Pro-abortion professor Shellyne Rodriquez curses at pro-life students and vandalizes table at Hunter College. pic.twitter.com/QNspuXB4KK
— Students for Life of America (@StudentsforLife) May 17, 2023
“This is a record-breaking year for free speech violations; we have never seen them at this scale before. The abortion lobby is rejecting a Post-Roe America the only way they know how: by senselessly and violently attempting to shut down our student groups,” SFLA Legal Correspondent Olivia Garza said in the report.
At an event at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Antifa stormed a room in which SFLA was giving a presentation and violently assaulted SFLA members, with Autumn Walser, the president of the Students for Life at VCU, requiring medical attention, according to a report from SFLA. Kevin Feliciano, documentarian for SLA, was also assaulted and pressed charges.
This is what happens when our nation glorifies harmful ideologies, refuses to prosecute evil-doers, and closes down open discussion. Antifa (so basically fascists) tried to silence us with their assaults @VCU. pic.twitter.com/XXsGRlcW6n
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) March 29, 2023
“As I experienced myself as Antifa and radical, pro-abortion trans activists attacked an event I lead at Virginia Commonwealth University, violence too often followed peaceful pro-life events,” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America (SFLA), said in the report.
SFLA’s report also revealed that Planned Parenthood is more focused on college-aged women, according to a Proximity Review by SFLA’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement. The review showed that nearly 90% of Planned Parenthoods operated within 5 miles of a college, an increase of 8.6% since the initial study from a decade ago.
“Students for Life of America works to ensure our students have free speech on campus because, without a voice, the voiceless in the womb will never be protected. Our legal counsel works tirelessly with students from all backgrounds on a variety of free speech issues because the First Amendment is for everyone, and that includes the Pro-Life Generation.” Caroline Wharton, press strategist for SFLA, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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