{"id":1570392,"date":"2022-07-25T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570392"},"modified":"2022-07-25T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T21:38:13","slug":"michigan-medical-school-students-walk-out-on-pro-life-speaker-during-white-coat-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-medical-school-students-walk-out-on-pro-life-speaker-during-white-coat-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Medical School Students Walk out on Pro-Life Speaker During White Coat Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-medical-school-students-walk-out-on-pro-life-speaker-during-white-coat-ceremony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570392&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dozens of incoming medical students at the University of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-michigan\">Michigan<\/a> walked out of the initiation ceremony on Sunday, following a failed attempt to pressure the school to cancel a pro-life doctor as the ceremony\u2019s keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The July 24 ceremony, during which students received their medical white coats and took the White Coat Pledge and the Hippocratic Oath, featured a speech by Dr. Kristin Collier, a professor and vocal critic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to acknowledge the deep wounds our community has suffered over the past several weeks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JE5wAvhr87w\">said<\/a> Collier as she began her speech, apparently referencing the pro-abortion students\u2019 frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a great deal of work to do for healing to occur,\u201d the professor continued. \u201cI hope that for today, for this time, we can focus on what matters most: coming together to support our newly accepted students and their families with the goal of welcoming them into one of the greatest vocations that exist on this earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not all students stayed to hear her message. Dozens of them, along with their parents, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PEScorpiio\/status\/1551301879623196672\">walked out of the auditorium<\/a> as soon as Collier was introduced.<\/p>\n<p>According to an interview with online publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillarcatholic.com\/p\/medicine-and-accepting-the-difficult\">The Pillar<\/a>, Collier started as a \u201cpro-choice atheist\u201d but later converted to Christianity and eventually reversed her view on abortion. She now directs a UMich program on religion, spirituality, and medicine and explores in her academic work how religious beliefs or spiritual commitments inform a physician\u2019s practices.<\/p>\n<p> Pro-abortion Students \u2018Scared\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The selection of Collier as the keynote speaker for the White Coat Ceremony \u201ctriggered\u201d pro-abortion students on UMich campus. They demanded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-medical-school\">medical school<\/a> find an alternative speaker, saying that the mere fact that Collier was given a platform to speak \u201cscared\u201d them.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1wLrrQY1DhYhtNAvqLJ8ZLeCiK_Dya8B5EsIATFYKYaY\">a petition<\/a>, UMich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of incoming medical students at the University of Michigan walked out of the initiation ceremony on Sunday, following a failed attempt to pressure the school to cancel a pro-life doctor as the ceremony\u2019s keynote speaker. 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