Viral Video: US students' walkout over anti-abortion views amid doc's speech
Hindustan TimesDozens of students of the University of Michigan Medical School in the United States staged a walkout during an anti-abortion speaker's keynote address during the school's white coat ceremony. Subsequently, more students walked out of the event when a pro-life assistant professor of medicine at UMMS, took to the stage to address the new students at their White Coat Ceremony. “While we support the rights of freedom of speech and religion, an anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan undermines the University’s position on abortion and supports the non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an essential part of medical care,” the petition read, as quoted by The Michigan Daily. “U-M Health remains committed to providing high-quality, safe reproductive care for patients, across all their reproductive health needs… This includes abortion care, which remains legal in Michigan while challenges to various state-law criminal statutes continue to proceed,” read a statement by the college released after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June this year.