Holding true to their values, students at the University of Michigan walked out of their white coat ceremony to protest an anti-abortion speaker's keynote address on Sunday. The move follows a petition requesting to cancel the event. The university had invited Dr. Kristin Collier, an anti-abortion professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical System (UMMS).
"While we support the rights of freedom of speech and religion, an anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan undermines the University's position on abortion and supports the non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an essential part of medical care," the petition signed by over 300 students read, according to The Michigan Daily.