{"id":312752,"date":"2021-03-25T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=312752"},"modified":"2021-03-25T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T01:00:39","slug":"conservative-student-group-plants-1000-pink-flags-at-ut-austin-to-memorialize-unborn-they-were-gone-within-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-student-group-plants-1000-pink-flags-at-ut-austin-to-memorialize-unborn-they-were-gone-within-12-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Student Group Plants 1,000 Pink Flags At UT Austin To Memorialize Unborn. They Were Gone Within 12 Hours."},"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\">38<\/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%2Fconservative-student-group-plants-1000-pink-flags-at-ut-austin-to-memorialize-unborn-they-were-gone-within-12-hours%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=312752&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3614.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A display of 1,000 pink flags that a conservative student group placed on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) this week to memorialize the many lives lost to abortion disappeared in less than 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The UT Austin chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), various iterations of which have existed on campuses across Texas since the organization was first founded in 1980, arranged the flags on the grass Tuesday in front of the school\u2019s iconic Tower. Each flag represented approximately 800 of the babies aborted each year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.086956521739\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last night, we <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yct?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yct<\/a> planted 1,000 flags on the south lawn to memorialize the hundreds of thousands of unborn humans lost to abortion every year. Be sure to check out our memorial before it\u2019s too late. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JgJKxZBL6V\">pic.twitter.com\/JgJKxZBL6V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YCT at UT Austin (@TexasYCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasYCT\/status\/1374724476043194370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As YCT-UT showed on Twitter, the flags had been plucked up and taken away not long after they were placed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.2716535433071\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Less than 12 hrs after we put up this memorial, it was taken down. It seems that reality is too hard for students who are supposed to \u201cchange the world\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ACiXCxeWTe\">https:\/\/t.co\/ACiXCxeWTe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6JlrCKArAJ\">pic.twitter.com\/6JlrCKArAJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YCT at UT Austin (@TexasYCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasYCT\/status\/1374761793491505156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>YCT addressed the memorial\u2019s disappearance in a press release late on Wednesday, saying in part:&nbsp;\u201cThis memorial was intended to send a message to the Texas Legislature, that we, the younger generation, venerate life from conception to natural death and will not stop praying and remembering the slain unborn until this barbaric practice is abolished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these leftists proved is that abortion kills more than a clump of cells,\u201d said YCT-UT Chairman Jordan Clements. \u201cThey know deep down that it is human life being killed on the altar of convenience in our throwaway culture, so when our memorial made them face the harsh reality of how many are killed each year due to abortion, they decided to take it down and push our message out of sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a sad day for the state of higher education when liberal students feel that they are free to vandalize the peaceful demonstrations of conservative students,\u201d said Ariana Silva, who is co-vice-chairman of YCT-UT. \u201cThis behavior is abhorrent and should be unthinkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5636363636364\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our official statement on the desecration of our pro life memorial. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SvAWnb5wWT\">https:\/\/t.co\/SvAWnb5wWT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yUCogynjVe\">pic.twitter.com\/yUCogynjVe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YCT at UT Austin (@TexasYCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasYCT\/status\/1374906709244792836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe university strongly defends freedom of expression and has content-neutral processes protecting free speech activities,\u201d said J.B. Bird, a spokesperson for the university, in a statement to The Daily Wire. \u201cOutdoor areas are open to the public, and free speech activities, such as demonstrations, do not require university approval. Students and student organizations can apply through the Dean of Students\u2019 Office to put up <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.utexas.edu\/general-information\/appendices\/appendix-c\/speech-expression-and-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outdoor displays and exhibits<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office has not had any students reach out about this exhibit, and we do not have information as of this evening about whether or how it was put up or taken down,\u201d Bird added. \u201cIf any students have concerns, we encourage them to contact the Dean of Students\u2019 Office for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident at UT Austin was not the first time a YCT chapter has dealt with one of their pro-life flag displays being disturbed. Last October, a similar exhibit at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, Texas, made headlines when video captured students openly making off with the flags in protest.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-horrible-thing-conservative-student-groups-abortion-memorial-vandalized-leader-threatened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"39.474091260634\">\n<p><em>Students vandalized a display intended to memorialize aborted babies on the campus of the University of North Texas (UNT) on Wednesday and also sent threatening texts to the leader of the conservative student group that put it up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Members of the UNT chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), a group that has existed in some form since 1980, received permission to place 1,000 small pink flags around the Denton, Texas, campus to commemorate unborn lives lost since Roe v. Wade, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/students-vandalize-conservative-groups-abortion-memorial-north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Spectator USA<\/a>. Each flag represented approximately 60,000 babies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The chapter\u2019s president, Kelly Neidert, told The Spectator that the flags were accompanied with various signs that said \u201cabortion is murder,\u201d \u201cunborn lives matter,\u201d and \u201coverturn Roe v. Wade,\u201d in part a reference to the looming battle to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to social media posts obtained by The Spectator, liberal students took aim at the memorial before it was even in place, mocking it and making a \u201ccapture the flag\u201d game out of ripping down the exhibit erected by those whom they deemed \u201csexist, transphobic, all around horrid.\u201d According to video captured by YCT, several students plucked the signs and removed the flags, including one girl carrying a soda.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.078125\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch this video of a liberal vandal scream profanities as he\u2019s confronted about stealing 180 flags from an abortion memorial. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zRsm2iI3zg\">pic.twitter.com\/zRsm2iI3zg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YCT UNT (@YctUnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YctUnt\/status\/1311724610094858240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-horrible-thing-conservative-student-groups-abortion-memorial-vandalized-leader-threatened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018A Horrible Thing\u2019: Conservative Student Group\u2019s Abortion Memorial Vandalized, Leader Threatened<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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