Med Students Walkout On Anti-Abortion Speaker

The Washington Post reports:

As nearly 170 new medical students filed into a University of Michigan auditorium on Sunday, some wondered how they would explain to their overjoyed parents that they were going to walk out of the ritual marking the start of their studies.

Each member of the incoming class had their own calculus about whether to stay seated during the keynote address by Kristin Collier, an openly antiabortion health provider, or join fellow students in a peaceful protest.

When the day came, about 70 people quietly rose from their seats and walked out as Collier took the stage — a show of dissent one month after Roe v. Wade was overturned. A clip of the walkout quickly went viral, with one video viewed more than 15 million times by Tuesday morning.

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Michigan med students staged a walk-out to protest the school’s decision to have a physician with antiabortion views as a speaker.

Here’s the students’ take on the protest, context on colleges & activism and ever-churning culture clashes. https://t.co/Rrey5LWZSY

— María Luisa Paúl (@marialuisapaulr) July 26, 2022

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