Incoming medical students walk out at U of M's white coat ceremony as the keynote speaker is...

[demmiblue]

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Dozens walk out of University of Michigan white coat ceremony to protest anti-abortion keynote speaker

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, the tweet had been liked more than 540,000 times.

After 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.

The petition cited instances in which Collier expressed her anti-abortion views in tweets and in interviews.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dozens-walk-university-michigan-white-coat-ceremony-protest-anti-abort-rcna39834

[NoRethugFriends]

1. Kudos to them and sham eon everyone who didn't (nt)

[Scrivener7]

2. Good for them. We should be making noise EVERYWHERE we can. We aren't.

[demmiblue]

3. Here is a tweet with her talking about her prenatal sisters:

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.

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