On Sunday, a group of University of Michigan Medical School students walked out of their White Coat Ceremony, meant to welcome new students to the medical profession, to protest the anti-abortion keynote speaker
Photo: corfoto/Getty Images/iStockphoto . Video of the walkout, which appeared to be peaceful and nondisruptive, went viral soon after, once again highlighting the disconnect between anti-abortion policy and basic health care.
In the video, a number of students got up and left the auditorium as Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of medicine and director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health Spirituality & Religion, took the stage.
Following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that effectively overturned Roe v. Wade, the University of Michigan released a statement affirming the school’s commitment to providing abortion care. However, when asked about the petition, a spokeswoman for Michigan Medicine told the Michigan Daily that the university “does not revoke an invitation to a speaker based on their personal beliefs.
Based on other reports, Collier did not directly speak about her personal stance on abortion at the ceremony, but she has previously made her views very clear. In June of 2020, she appeared at a March for Life U.K. virtual event.
Abortion is currently still legal in Michigan until “viability,” when the fetus would be able to survive outside the womb with medical help.
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