On Sept. 24, Students for Life groups on campuses across the country held #WomenBetrayed National Day of Student Action events. But some couldn’t handle the pro-life message.
At American University, vandals who called their group AU Justice League ripped down the flyers put up by members of the campus’ College Republicans.
There is a problem accessing the cowards’ Twitter account, as they seemed to have taken it down. Students for Life of America managed to take a screenshot though of them bragging about tearing down flyers.
Both Students for Life and Tristan Justice, a freshman at AU, chalked it up to liberal intolerance:
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, had strong words about Planned Parenthood and these vandals, but also praised students like Tristan.
American University mentioned that there is no officially recognized group known as AU Justice League, and said that they do not approve of such behavior tearing down the flyers.
Other schools were not so lucky, however.
At Utah State University, students were forced by campus police to erase their pro-life sidewalk chalk messages. There was apparently a strong enough concern that people would be offended.
As Melissa, a student at the university described it, campus police forced her and her riends to clean up their message. She also said four campus police cars were there and were “guarding it as if we they were guarding a crime scene.”
Students for Life is consulting their attorneys in that instance.
At the University of Michigan-Flint campus, students said their chalk messages were erased when other students poured water over them.
Meanwhile, at the University of North Carolina, the vandals are not anonymous–far from it.
The university’s Students United for Reproductive Justice (SURJ) proudly posted photos and a message on Facebook directing students to erase such messages if they saw them.
More recently, SURJ also used the incident to talk about Black Lives Matter, government efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, and even promote one of their own events, in the name of “conversation.”
As for their opponents, SURJ claimed that “chalking co-opted language and turning it into hate messages that are dangerous for our student body is not conversation.”
Kristan Hawkins wrote about the UNC students on her Facebook, while sharing a piece from Campus Reform about the matter. She said that the “UNC Administration must intervene here and condemn this assault on freedom of speech.” She also mentioned that “pro-aborts who vandalize Students for Life displays are so stupid…”
