Michigan Medical School Students Walk out on Pro-Life Speaker During White Coat Ceremony

Michigan Medical School Students Walk out on Pro-Life Speaker During White Coat Ceremony
Students walk across the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Jan. 17, 2003. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
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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’s keynote speaker.

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 abortion.