UMBC expands free speech rules due to anti-abortion protesters

Published August 11, 2008 4:00am ET



Anti-abortion students have forced the University of Maryland Baltimore County to loosen its guidelines on demonstrations after university officials pressured them multiple times to move their posters of bloody fetuses.

The students had reserved space for the student group Rock for Life to set up a display in April 2007 called the Genocide Awareness Project in a well-traveled area in front of the University Center.

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