Dozens of incoming medical students walked out of their University of Michigan white coat ceremony when the keynote speaker — a doctor with anti-abortion views — was introduced.
Dozens walk out of the University of Michigan's white coat ceremony Sunday to protest a keynote speaker with anti-abortion views.Dozens of incoming medical students walked out of their University of Michigan white coat ceremony Sunday when the keynote speaker — a doctor with anti-abortion views — was introduced.
A tweet showing the medical students and some other attendees of the ceremony walk out as Dr. Kristin Collier approached the podium has gone viral. As of Monday afternoon, theAfter it was announced that Collier would be the keynote speaker of the event, a petition for the university to choose a different speaker garnered signatures from 248 current students, 100 incoming students and 72 others, including alumni.
Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of medicine, speaks at the University of Michigan white coat ceremony in Ann Arbor on Sunday.The petition cited instances in which Collier expressed her anti-abortion views in tweets and in interviews. "holding on to a view of feminism where one fights for the rights of all women and girls, especially those who are most vulnerable. I can’t not lament the violence directed at my prenatal sisters in the act of abortion, done in the name of autonomy," she
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