Students of New York University&rsquo;s <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/soca/courses/justice-lab.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Justice Lab</a> have drafted a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PSVIez_wMqXQc2Vc2_XjcXBZ8327ln0Bk-qKPr8WgQI/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">letter</a> to the school&rsquo;s administration which demands reparations for descendants of slaves and dissociation with the NYPD. In the letter written in March, the students write that they &ldquo;are making a claim that African-American students and other groups that are descended from American Chattel Slavery are entitled to financial and structural benefits that NYU has denied them.&rdquo; They further describe a publication by Nelson Maldonado-Torres entitled &ldquo;<a href="http://caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/docs/Maldonado-Torres_Outline_Ten_Theses-10.23.16.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Outline of Ten Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality</a>&rdquo; and state that his work emphasizes their &ldquo;duty as students to critically assess the university. As students that are paying to attend this school, we have the power and authority to determine how this institution allocates its funding and resources.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Brown University students overwhelmingly vote in favor of reparations]</a> The Justice Lab is a two-credit course offered by NYU that focuses &ldquo;social and political contention in the contemporary United states.&rdquo; The course has no set curriculum and allows students and faculty to create the syllabus themselves while working in small groups to research current events and develop strategies for combating these issues. There are 9 demands outlined in the groups letter, but the writers clarify that &ldquo;the demands we present are not a solution or salve for the harm that educational institutions have inflicted upon Black people.&rdquo; &ldquo;Citing Maldonado-Torres again, the continuation of coloniality is perpetuated by liberal institutions that claim to advance modernity, which clearly describes New York University,&rdquo; explains the letter which was signed by 6 students. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Press Sec says Biden may consider reparations policies. What will former academics in his circle advise?]</a> The letter mentions the &ldquo;misconception&rdquo; that only the South was responsible for the perseverance of slavery in the United States, but they also point out that this is false. The NYU undergraduates go on to say that &ldquo;New York, and New York University in particular, has a problematic history in relation to ideas on slavery and Black people.&rdquo; Some examples that are provided of NYU&rsquo;s controversial history are that New York was once a slave state and &ldquo;the nation&rsquo;s earliest and largest African burial ground is just a few minutes away from Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is NYU&rsquo;s responsibility to guarantee that it honors, respects, and takes financial responsibility for the way that the experience of African-American students and communities has been shaped and influenced by slavery in New York and the United States as a whole.&rdquo; The individuals then listed their demands which include scholarships for descendants of slavery, hiring of more black faculty, increased funding for black student groups and dismantling of ties with the New York Police Department. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16894" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16894" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16894" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: St. Joseph&rsquo;s prof placed on paid leave after criticizing reparations]</a> Kayla Merriweather, president of NYU&rsquo;s Black Student Union and one of the signatories on the letter, created a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/new-york-university-support-nyu-students-demands-for-reparations-for-african-american-students?recruiter=173580124&recruited_by_id=39011315-9a06-4fb4-8aec-9de51290a943&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> listing these demands and has gained 249 signatures. Merriweather told the <a href="https://nyunews.com/news/2021/04/08/justice-lab-students-demands-reparations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NYU News</a> that &ldquo;It&rsquo;s important for organizations or people or groups who have done harm in the past to take accountability for that in the present.&rdquo; The first demand states that &quot;NYU markets itself as a left-leaning university that advocates for its entire student body. To do that and to start to make up for the deficit Black students have faced at NYU, we make our first demand that NYU allocate part of its tuition to reparations.&rdquo; Debt forgiveness for Black students is also included in this demand. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16838" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16838" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16838" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard researchers claim COVID-19 wouldn&#39;t have been so bad if US paid reparations]</a> Hiring more black faculty is the second demand outlined by the students, who state in the letter &ldquo;for white professors to tell the histories of African peoples is to in part rob Black people from telling their own histories.&rdquo; The students continue by calling on the university to not only hire more black faculty but also to create more resources and promotion opportunities for them. Demands four and five are titled &ldquo;cut ties with NYPD and allocate more funding for black clubs.&rdquo;&nbsp; The demands mention the decision made by the University of Minnesota to cut ties with the Minneapolis Police Department after the death of George Floyd in 2020, demanding that NYU do the same, writing &ldquo;by condemning the actions of the police force, we can send a powerful message of support against systems of police and incarceration, and encourage other institutions to follow our lead.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16823" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16823" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16823" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Virginia bill would create reparations scholarships]</a> The final four demands are &ldquo;taking responsibility for gentrification and supporting health clinics and local schools&rdquo; and &ldquo;creating a reparations council and funding research on NYU&rsquo;s relationship with slavery and racism.&rdquo; The six students &ldquo;demand that NYU hold itself accountable for previous wrongs, and be proactive and informed in its efforts to ensure reparations for Black students.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brown University&nbsp;</a>and <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/universities-reparations-slavery-georgetown-virginia-princeton-a9247091.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Georgetown University&nbsp;</a>have both promised reparations as a result of student demands. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Campus Reform reached out to NYU, but did not receive a response.

So far over 250 people have expressed support for the letter.

NYU students demand that the school provide reparations for black students and cut ties with NYPD

Feeling burdened by university policies and extra responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, resident advisors at colleges across the country organized for items such as &quot;hazard pay&quot; and better working conditions. Campus Reform&nbsp;identified several RA organizations that submitted a list of demands to their schools.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16687" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Colleges closed many campus services during pandemic...but still charged students for them]</a>University of MichiganAccording to The Chronicle,&nbsp;In September 2020, dozens of resident advisers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor went on <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/covid-19-pushes-ras-to-the-breaking-point-some-are-striking-others-quit?cid=gen_sign_in&cid2=gen_login_refresh" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">strike&nbsp;</a> for improved COVID-19 protections and hazard pay for student employees. Over 100 RAs voted to abstain from day-to-day duties like staffing mailrooms or helping students locked out of their rooms.&nbsp;Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs Rick Fitzgerald told Campus Reform that the RAs&rsquo; &ldquo;work stoppage&rdquo; was &ldquo;a way to engage the administration,&rdquo; but because they are not a recognized union, they did not &ldquo;collectively &lsquo;strike.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;Fitzgerald added that the university did &ldquo;quickly distribute more PPE for every RA, testing became available (and later mandatory) for all RAs, and additional data has been added to the campus dashboard&rdquo; and &ldquo;housing leadership now meets regularly with RA representatives from each building to problem solve issues together.&rdquo;&nbsp;The university, however, <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/covid-19-pushes-ras-to-the-breaking-point-some-are-striking-others-quit?cid=gen_sign_in" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">refused&nbsp;</a>to give their student employees hazard pay, a benefit that no university employee receives.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14509" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &nbsp;Thousands demand UCSD &#39;cancel&#39; student fees after classes go online]</a>Cornell UniversityCornell University RAs went on <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2020/08/19/decrying-low-pay-and-lack-of-protection-r-a-s-strike-with-move-in-days-away/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">strike</a> less than a week before students were set to move into their residence halls in Fall 2020. Based on the hashtag #GiveUsEmpathy, the strikers published a list of demands on <a href="https://twitter.com/cornell_ra/status/1296088810196021249?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter,&nbsp;</a>including improved safety measures, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">more protective equipment,&nbsp;cost-of-living raises, hazard pay, an RA representative present at Housing and Residential Life meetings as well as a professional staff liaison, and fewer responsibilities.According to <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2020/08/19/decrying-low-pay-and-lack-of-protection-r-a-s-strike-with-move-in-days-away/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Cornell Daily Sun</a>, RAs sent an email to their supervisors declaring that they &ldquo;will refuse to be on-call, boycott weekly staff meetings, and avoid communication with superiors until our spokespersons are contacted and our demands are met.&rdquo;&nbsp;After just one day, the RAs <a href="https://twitter.com/cornell_ra/status/1296493354293886978?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">called off</a> on their strike, returning to work after Cornell officials &ldquo;agreed to begin a larger process of communication and dialogue.&rdquo;&nbsp;Since then, Cornell has <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2020/10/12/nearly-2-months-after-strike-ras-say-university-has-met-demands/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">agreed to</a> several of the strikers&rsquo; demands. RAs are now provided more protective equipment and reimbursed $50 for laundry fees, $75 to make up for a lost gym membership, and 100 meal swipes per semester. The university also hired more RAs to decrease its resident-per-RA ratio.&nbsp;RAs are still working to increase their representation and pay, however.&nbsp;&ldquo;As far as we&rsquo;re concerned, our demands have been met and we&rsquo;re looking for longer-term change later down the line through this direct line of communication being established in the formation of the RA Council,&rdquo; senior RA Ramon Reyes told <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2020/10/12/nearly-2-months-after-strike-ras-say-university-has-met-demands/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Cornell Daily Sun</a>.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17210" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: U of Tampa students plan separate in-person graduation after university announces virtual plans]</a>University of Massachusetts AmherstPrior to the start of the Fall 2020 semester, the University of Massachusetts Amherst <a href="https://dailycollegian.com/2020/08/umass-to-lay-off-95-percent-of-its-resident-assistants-and-peer-mentors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced&nbsp;</a>it would lay off roughly 450 resident assistants and peer mentors, leaving only 21 of the former and 2 of the latter left to be employed by the university.&nbsp;In a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkBZKPz3e1RbTzFNhjWiHg9_4kYUDe4vf_rypYq7ft8/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">contractual agreement</a> between the university and the Resident Assistant &amp; Peer Mentor Union (RAPM Union), the Layoffs clause states that &ldquo;no RA/PM shall suffer a loss in compensation or benefits.&rdquo; The RAPM said, however, that the university did not intend to pay the laid-off student workers and violated their contract.&nbsp;The university argued that it did not violate the contract because these students were given &ldquo;appointment offers&rdquo; and not hired for formal positions. Reacting to the news, a group of six resident assistants and peer mentors, according to Jacobin,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/umass-amherst-undergraduate-union-residential-life" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tried&nbsp;</a>to protest but were interrupted when university police threatened to arrest them. Undaunted, the group returned the next night with the addition of about thirty student workers.&ldquo;So it is that we occupied the chancellor&rsquo;s lawn, demanding the university honor our contract and provide for all RAs and PMs. We chanted and sang, shared testimony, and even toured the chancellor&rsquo;s lavish backyard. We occupied the lawn for a half an hour before UMass police threatened to arrest us,&rdquo; three RAPM Union co-chairs wrote in Jacobin.In December, the laid-off RAs anticipated receiving job offers from UMass but <a href="https://dailycollegian.com/2020/12/ras-and-pms-refuse-to-accept-unsafe-work-demand-umass-uphold-employment-contract-ahead-of-spring-2021/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said&nbsp;</a>they would refuse them &ldquo;unless the University considers students as &lsquo;hired&rsquo; staff when they accept their position offers, and agrees to provide safe ventilation in the dorms.&rdquo;According to the Daily Collegian, a final <a href="https://dailycollegian.com/2020/12/resident-assistant-peer-mentor-union-reaches-final-agreement-with-university-for-spring-2021-semester/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">agreement&nbsp;</a>was reached between the university and RAPM Union which extended offers to all resident assistants and peer mentors who were offered positions for the 2020-2021 academic year. Additionally, demands including $225 in dining dollars, seven free masks, free COVID-19 testing twice a week, optional remote work, and improved ventilation systems were met.&ldquo;I want to be clear: You won this. When you take action alongside your fellow RAs and PMs, you can make a difference on the issues that you care about,&rdquo; RAPM Union co-chairs Marco Maldonado, Iya Carney and James Cordero said in an <a href="https://dailycollegian.com/2020/12/resident-assistant-peer-mentor-union-reaches-final-agreement-with-university-for-spring-2021-semester/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">email</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17147" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: LIBERAL ELITES? Profs more likely to have grown up &#39;socioeconomically privileged,&#39; study finds]</a>Syracuse UniversityAccording to the Daily Orange,&nbsp;in September of 2020, a group of RAs at Syracuse University <a href="http://dailyorange.com/2020/09/resident-advisers-demand-hazard-pay-ppe/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">issued&nbsp;</a>a list of nine demands to the Office of Student Living. Their demands included biweekly hazard pay of $24 to compensate the RAs for their potential exposure to COVID-19, a $620 stipend, additional protective equipment, increased involvement in decision-making processes, and a &ldquo;safe place&rdquo; for expressing concerns.&nbsp;The students threatened to take &ldquo;alternative measures&rdquo; if residence officials did not to respond to their notice.University officials <a href="http://dailyorange.com/2020/10/syracuse-university-provides-residential-advisers-ppe-response-demands/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">responded&nbsp;</a>by providing additional protective equipment and instituting drop-in office hours to serve as the demanded &ldquo;safe place.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/redwave1776" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@redwave1776</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

In some cases, the university capitulated.

Resident advisors across the country submit lists of demands to their universities and win

Song Guo Zheng, a former professor and researcher at Ohio State University,<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/university-researcher-sentenced-prison-lying-grant-applications-develop-scientific-expertise" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;will spend 37 months in prison</a> after being convicted of lying about his ties to the Chinese government on applications for NIH grant funding and failing to disclose his China ties to his employers. Zheng will also be required to pay roughly $413,000 to Ohio State University and $3.4 million to the National Institutes of Health.&quot;Zheng pleaded guilty last November and admitted he lied on applications in order to use approximately $4.1 million in grants from NIH to develop China&rsquo;s expertise in the areas of rheumatology and immunology,&quot;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/university-researcher-sentenced-prison-lying-grant-applications-develop-scientific-expertise" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;said the DOJ</a> when it announced the sentencing.Zheng&#39;s teaching and scholarship were in the medical field, with emphasis on rheumatology and immunology at Ohio State University. Zheng&#39;s <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359610113001093" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">researcher biography</a> states that he has also taught at the University of Southern California and Penn State University.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17346" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Yet another professor indicted for receiving secret support from China]</a>Authorities arrested Zheng in Anchorage, Alaska in May 2020 as he was preparing to board a chartered flight to China while carrying several laptops, cell phones, and USB drives. Following the arrest, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio David M. DeVillers <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/researcher-charged-illegally-using-us-grant-funds-develop-scientific-expertise-china" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>, &quot;We allege that Zheng was preparing to flee the country after he learned that his employer had begun an administrative process into whether or not he was complying with rules governing taxpayer-funded grants.&quot;Zheng <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/university-researcher-pleads-guilty-lying-grant-applications-develop-scientific-expertise">entered</a> a guilty plea in November 2020, at which time he &quot;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">admitted he lied on applications in order to use approximately $4.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop China&#39;s expertise in the areas of rheumatology and immunology,&quot; as noted by the DOJ.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16780" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UF prof indicted over undisclosed China ties]</a>Federal prosecutors alleged that Zheng has been involved with a Chinese Talent Plan since 2013. Chinese Talent Plans, <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-china-threat/chinese-talent-plans" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according to the FBI</a>, &quot;incentivize [their] members to steal foreign technologies needed to advance China&#39;s national, military, and economic goals.&quot; A typical Chinese Talent Plan requires the researcher to &quot;share new technology developments or breakthroughs only with China,&quot; as they need &quot;special authorization from China&quot; to allow the U.S. host organization to see the same information.&nbsp;Ohio State University did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. In the event of a response, this article will be updated accordingly.&nbsp;<strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

Zheng was arrested last year at an Alaska airport where he was attempting to bring several laptops, cell phones, and USB drives with him to China. 

Former Ohio State professor sentenced to prison for lying about China ties

The University of Northern Iowa has created a six-week virtual program titled &ldquo;<a href="https://insideuni.uni.edu/quest-social-justice#:~:text=The%20nuances%20of%20technology%20and%20systemic%20racism%20is,justice%20and%20activate%20systemic%20change%20in%20our%20communities" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cultivating Justice: A Quest Toward Racial Equity</a>&rdquo; that &ldquo;prompts individuals and small groups to reflect on a collection of local materials curated to promote racial justice and activate systemic change in our communities.&rdquo;The project&rsquo;s web page notes that &ldquo;systemic racism...can also occur in everyday technology - even automatic soap dispensers.&rdquo;&nbsp;The project&rsquo;s <a href="https://quest.uni.edu/listen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first week</a> included stories of discrimination faced by members of the campus community. For instance, a podcast from one alumnus described &ldquo;the dissonance of existing in the space between his Ghanaian ancestral roots and his Americanized speech.&rdquo; The materials also contain a link to a resource on &quot;whitesplaining and how to avoid it.&quot;The second <a href="https://quest.uni.edu/define" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">week</a>&nbsp;featured&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5H_PitWlTc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a video</a>&nbsp;by a sophomore student who defines terms like &quot;white trash&quot; and &quot;Good White People.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17197" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Iowa bill targets colleges that teach New York Times&#39; &#39;racist&#39; and &#39;historically inaccurate&#39; 1619 Project]</a>&quot;When I say &#39;Good White People,&#39; typically what I mean is a white liberal...when I mention liberal, I&#39;m typically referring to someone who sees themselves as wanting to end racism in the United States and somebody who is not really responsible for the lingering racism within our society today,&quot; he says. Though he notes that Good White People exist on both sides of the aisle, he says, &quot;They are typically people who are progressive individuals or [who] see themselves as progressive individuals and want to see the country moving in a more positive direction in reference to race and equality.&quot;The third <a href="https://quest.uni.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">week</a>&nbsp;pointed students toward resources that explain &ldquo;systems of oppression&rdquo; within policing, healthcare, and education. The fourth&nbsp;<a href="https://quest.uni.edu/locate">week</a>&nbsp;of the program encouraged participants to &ldquo;locate &amp; organize&rdquo; their efforts in tandem with nearby justice movements.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17170">[RELATED: Ibram Kendi brings his &#39;antiracist book festival&#39; back to BU]</a>Among the dozen outlets for activism included <a href="https://scholarworks.uni.edu/nisgnews/">Uprising Magazine</a>, a student-led publication which features &ldquo;dedicated efforts towards enacting social justice through sharing stories and engaging in causes on campus.&quot;Likewise, the fifth <a href="https://quest.uni.edu/advocate">week</a>&nbsp;&mdash; in which participants were taught how to behave in accordance with antiracism &mdash; pointed students toward ways to involve themselves in activism work. One project, the &ldquo;anti-racism daily newsletter,&rdquo; was paired with a call for donations to the author&#39;s website.&nbsp;The sixth and final <a href="https://quest.uni.edu/rest">week</a>&nbsp;of the program granted students the chance to &ldquo;rest and heal&rdquo; &mdash; a call that has become increasingly common on American college campuses. &quot;We believe rest is a form of resistance and name sleep deprivation as a racial and social justice issue,&quot; the weekly slate of resources declares.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17071">[RELATED: UNC event repeats notion of fighting racism through &#39;self-care&#39;]</a>University of Northern Iowa spokesman Steven Schmadeke told Campus Reform that the initiative was &ldquo;a voluntary community project organized by a UNI professor&rdquo; that was &ldquo;not a class or course.&rdquo;&nbsp;Schmadeke added that &ldquo;the costs of this project were minimal,&rdquo; since it &ldquo;highlighted a number of existing works, videos, podcasts and other writings on the topic of racial equity.&rdquo;&nbsp;According to the project&rsquo;s web page, it is sponsored by the UNI Office of the Provost. &nbsp;Schmadeke noted that the essays, podcasts, graphics, and other content for the project &rdquo;were collected via an open call.&rdquo;<strong style="outline: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: var(--red); text-decoration: none; user-select: auto; font-weight: 600; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank">Ben Zeisloft</a> on Twitter

The program has endorsed the work of Ibram X. Kendi and solicited donations for antiracism projects.

Take a look at University of Northern Iowa’s new online program based in Critical Race Theory

Two students for the University of Northwestern - St. Paul have launched a petition calling on the school to turn away from Critical Race Theory and other progressive ideologies, arguing that such theories run counter to the school&#39;s Christian foundation.Students at Northwestern St. Paul University Hayley Tschetter and Joshua Feland created a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/social-justice-an-open-letter-to-the-university-of-northwestern-st-paul?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_28343965_en-US%3A3&recruiter=1043843559&recruited_by_id=79a96500-5338-11ea-8ac3-1b4e77bcfa6f&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">change.org petition</a> warning the community about &quot;destructive&quot; concepts that are becoming commonplace in higher-education.&quot;Intentional or not, exchanging the biblical worldview and faithful Christian teaching for those worldviews rooted in anti-biblical ideologies such as Marxism, Postmodernism, Social Justice Theory, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality leads down a destructive one-way road from which you cannot return.&quot;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17399" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Author of debunked 1619 Project to join UNC as &#39;Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism&#39;]</a>&quot;As students, it is our sincere and sober conviction that our beloved University is at a turning point,&quot; the petition begins. &quot;In light of recent events and controversies, both on and off our campus, we believe we are at a turning point that is perhaps more significant than any other in its history. &#39;<p style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; color: rgb(54, 49, 53); font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>As students, it is our sincere and sober conviction that our beloved University is at a turning point. In light of recent events and controversies, both on and off our campus, we believe we are at a turning point that is perhaps more significant than any other in its history.<p style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; color: rgb(54, 49, 53); font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>The petition states that it is the Church&#39;s responsibility to &quot;correct falsehood.&quot;<p style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; color: rgb(54, 49, 53); font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>&ldquo;We look around at our nation and our world and see that these are dire times. Now, as [it] has always been, it is the Church&rsquo;s responsibility to defend the truth and correct falsehood (2 Tim. 2:15; 1 Pet. 3:15; Jude 3). As individual members of Jesus&rsquo; worldwide body, his bride, each of us live unified under one banner: preaching one Word, proclaiming one Gospel, serving one God (Eph. 4:1&ndash;6). We earnestly desire this blood-bought unity, and we will seek to preserve it, but we cannot do so at the cost of truth.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17309" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: New &lsquo;Civics Alliance&rsquo; aims to &lsquo;unite Americans in the effort to preserve civics education&rsquo;]</a>The petition lists examples and links of examples of the school&#39;s implementing of CRT, including mandatory implicit and racial bias training for staff, student leaders and others, affirmative action hiring practices, and changes to the core curriculum to include greater cultural competency.&ldquo;I have been gravely burdened by the trajectory I have seen my school going down,&#39;&#39; Hayley Tschetter said in an interview with&nbsp;Campus Reform. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a path similar to many Christian schools have taken before and it never ends well. My heart is hurting for those who are suffering and in pain, but I also believe that CRT deepens the racial divide rather than healing it. It was written out of a deep love for my school and for the students and faculty there, desiring them to remain firmly fixed upon the Gospel rather than turning to other ideologies. The letter took well over four months to write and formulate, so we tried to be as thorough as we could possibly be.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17315" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Investigation finds no evidence of FSU founding president&rsquo;s supposed racism. &#39;Anti-racists&#39; still want him canceled]</a>The President of University of Northwestern St. Paul President Cureton has responded to the petition in an email that was sent to the student body.&nbsp;The <a href="https://www.change.org/p/social-justice-an-open-letter-to-the-university-of-northwestern-st-paul/u/28885171" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">email</a> stated that he doesn&#39;t agree with the petition, but recognizes their right to express their view.&ldquo;So, while I do not agree with the characterizations and theories in the recent petition about the diversity and inclusion efforts at Northwestern, I also recognize each community member&rsquo;s right to freedom of speech and to expressions of beliefs and convictions.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17241" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Chico State president will lead university in &#39;antiracist&#39; journey after reading book by Critical Race Theorist]</a>&ldquo;I appreciate Dr. Cureton&#39;s statement regarding the freedom we have to express our views, however his dismissal of the ideas we presented was deeply discouraging,&rdquo; said Tschetter. &ldquo;We were hoping for more substance and a stronger stance taken against CRT within a response to our letter. Honestly the whole campus&#39; biggest question now is what does Dr. Cureton really think, because he was so non-committal in his response.&rdquo;The petition has so far garnered over 2,300 signatures&ldquo;I am more than a little surprised with how many signatures we&#39;ve received just in this short amount of time,&rdquo; said Josh Feland in an interview with Campus Reform. &ldquo;It&#39;s truly amazing how God has worked to spread this message completely organically.&quot;&quot;No huge news sites or commentators with large followings have picked up the story; it&#39;s all been spread by word of mouth,&#39; Feland added.The University of Northwestern St. Paul has not responded for comment.

The university president responded by saying he does "not agree" with the petition's allegations.

Students at Christian university call on school to turn away from 'falsehood' that is Critical Race Theory

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are some of the least effective members of Congress, according to a new <a href="https://thelawmakers.org/find-representatives#/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">study</a> by researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.&nbsp;The researchers, who <a href="https://thelawmakers.org/methodology" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">generated</a> their data using computers and basing their scores on 15 criteria, say the proof is in the math.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17361" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: OPINION: Say it loudly&mdash;&#39;I am not a racist.&#39;]</a>Their equations factored how many of a congressman&rsquo;s bills pass committee, make it to the other house, and eventually become law. They established a benchmark score of 1.5 and above as &ldquo;Exceptional&rdquo; and scores of .50 and below as &ldquo;Below Expectations.&rdquo;Among the lowest scoring House Democrats were Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (0.209) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (0.058).<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16947" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Teaching assistant docks point on conservative student&#39;s Black Panther essay: &lsquo;White people cannot experience racism&rsquo;]</a>They also identified several senators who were ineffective, with Sen. &nbsp;Bernie Sanders of Vermont scoring 0.136.&nbsp;The average score was 1.0.&nbsp;The highest scoring senators were Gary Peters (D-Mi.), Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) and <a href="https://www.wicker.senate.gov/public/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roger Wicker (R-Ms.)</a>, who scored 5.015, 3.589, and 3.558.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17276" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: SUNY Geneseo announces new dorm &#39;for Students of Color&#39;]</a>Congressmen who practice bipartisanship are the most effect legislators, the study also said.&ldquo;Collectively, these results imply that engaging in bipartisan behaviors contributes to a virtuous cycle: those who cosponsor across party lines attract cross-party cosponsors to their own bills, which translates into greater legislative success for their agendas.&rdquo;And it found that regardless of political affiliations &ldquo;those who acquired degrees from elite educational institutions tend to be more liberal than others in their respective parties.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17147" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: LIBERAL ELITES? Profs more likely to have grown up &#39;socioeconomically privileged,&#39; study finds&#39;]</a>Rep. Rashida Talib &nbsp;had the highest score of the &quot;squad&quot; at 1.411, beating both <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Representatives Ilhan Omar (0.328) and&nbsp; Ayanna Pressley (0.670).&nbsp;Speaking to Campus Reform Vanderbilt University Professor Alan Wiseman, who helped to organize the study, said <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pact-Clinton-Gingrich-Rivalry-Generation/dp/0195322789" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bipartisanship</a> is still a path to becoming a successful lawmaker in Congress. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17324" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: VIDEO: Students CONDEMN BLM after they learn where their money is REALLY going]</a>Wiseman said that there is a &ldquo;very strong relationship between bipartisanship and lawmaking effectiveness for our top 10 Democratic House and Senate members holds.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Even in these politically challenging times,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;Bipartisanship appears to pay off for those who seek to advance their legislative initiatives.&rdquo;Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ajmunguia23" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600;" target="_blank">@ajmunguia23</a>

Report finds that bipartisan legislators are the most effective in both the house and senate.

University research finds AOC, Bernie Sanders highly ineffective

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) created a toolkit for helping citizens track legislation promoting civics education in their K-12 and postsecondary schools.The <a href="https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/tracking-american-civics-legislation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Civics Bill Tracker</a> is a project of the association&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/nas-announces-the-civics-alliance" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Civics Alliance</a>, a group of scholars and activists &ldquo;dedicated to defending and restoring true civics education across the United States.&rdquo; As of April 9, the National Association of Scholars is tracking four federal bills and 142 state bills as they move through the legislatures.&nbsp;Members of the public can access a <a href="https://www.nas.org/storage/app/media/New%20Documents/civics-proposed-bills-april-12-2021.xlsx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chart of the Bills spreadsheet</a> including each bill&rsquo;s goals, sponsors, and current status, as well as analysis from National Association of Scholars experts.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17195" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Marco Rubio targets Confucius Institutes with new bill]</a>For instance, NAS is tracking <a href="https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB319/2021">House Bill 319</a> in New Hampshire, which would require university and community college students in the state&rsquo;s higher education system &ldquo;to pass the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services civics naturalization test.&rdquo; The bill is sponsored by six Republicans and one Democrat.&nbsp;<a href="https://legiscan.com/NJ/text/S2012/2020" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Senate Bill 2012</a> in New Jersey, which is sponsored by a lone Democrat, &ldquo;appropriates total of $160,000 from General Fund to Rutgers University-Camden and Rutgers University-Newark to establish Civic Leadership Summer Program.&rdquo;&nbsp;Campus Reform has reported on the advance of similar bills in Republican-dominated legislatures. Many exist to counter the historically dubious claims of the 1619 Project and the ideas of critical race theory and intersectionality.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17197" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Iowa bill targets colleges that teach New York Times&#39; &#39;racist&#39; and &#39;historically inaccurate&#39; 1619 Project]</a>National Association of Scholars Director of Research David Randall told Campus Reform that &ldquo;civics education is under serious threat from Action Civics, which would replace traditional civics education with thinly disguised community organization &mdash; progressive propaganda and vocational training in radical action.&rdquo;&ldquo;The information will allow citizens to get in touch with their own state representatives and convey informed opinion on the legislation under consideration,&rdquo; he added.Campus Reform reached out to the National Association of Scholars for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Civics education is under threat from "progressive propaganda and vocational training in radical action," said National Association of Scholars Director of Research David Randall.

Does your state have a bill to improve civics education?

Multiple universities are extending the deadline for dropping courses to the last day of classes.In a <a href="https://statements.cornell.edu/2021/20210413-students-supporting-student-mental-health.cfm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">letter</a> to the student body, Cornell University announced that students may &ldquo;drop a course without&nbsp;a W through the last day of instruction&rdquo; on May 14. This policy applies to full-semester and half-semester classes.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17185" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Theology prof: &#39;Dear God, please help me to hate White people&#39;]</a>University officials attributed the change in policy to the recent death of a student and the &ldquo;intersecting stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including xenophobia, health disparities, national reckonings related to racial injustice, political upheaval, and economic downturn.&rdquo; &nbsp;&ldquo;We recognize the impact of these acute and cumulative stressors on one&rsquo;s body, mind, and emotions and that each of you are navigating them through your own ways of coping,&rdquo; wrote Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Lisa Nishii on April 13, &ldquo;While it is both normal and understandable to have difficulty managing academics when concentration, memory, and sleep are compromised, we also know that some of you rely on your academic pursuits to provide a sense of structure and predictability in these uncertain times.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17079" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: ASU dean writes book alleging that grading students&rsquo; writing is &#39;white supremacy&#39;]</a>The new grading policy was instituted to benefit students who feel &ldquo;overwhelmed, utterly exhausted, and need more space to process their emotions and grieve.&rdquo;Weeks earlier, the University of Illinois <a href="https://publish.illinois.edu/englishadvising/2021/02/11/spring-2021-academic-policy-changes-new-drop-deadline-and-covid-grades/#sthash.MXGWZXpm.dpbs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">unveiled</a> a similar policy.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16874" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UVA, fourth best public college in US, lowers academic standards for two more years]</a>On Feb. 11, the school announced that the drop deadline would be extended to the last day of the class in question. If students drop a course by this deadline, it is &quot;erased from your official transcript.&quot;The University of Virginia, for example, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16874" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">extended</a> its test-optional admissions policy for two more years.Campus Reform reached out to Cornell University and the University of Illinois for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

These announcements come as leading universities across the United States trend toward relaxing their academic standards in response to COVID-19.

Ivy League university moves to allow students to drop classes on LAST DAY

A Johns Hopkins University medical professor said that closed schools are an &ldquo;American disgrace.&rdquo;Dr. <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/1565/martin-a-makary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marty Makary</a> &mdash; a professor at Johns Hopkins University&rsquo;s prestigious School of Medicine and a Fox News contributor &mdash; said during an interview with &ldquo;Coffee With Closers&rdquo; ripped public health officials&rsquo; response to the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp;<iframe width="100%" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WgEiYVbTuRw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>During the interview, Makary explained his thinking on herd immunity and his correct prediction that the United States would see a slowing of COVID-19 infections by April of 2021.&ldquo;What we&rsquo;re seeing is a divergence in the data right now. You&rsquo;re going to see two pandemics &mdash; one among at-risk people and the other is among young people who are healthy,&rdquo; he said. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17037"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17037" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Race-based COVID vaccine distribution is needed, profs say, because US is racist]</a>Makary also challenged Dr. Fauci&rsquo;s representation of herd immunity.&ldquo;When people say we need to vaccinate 70-85% of the population in order to reach herd immunity &mdash; which is a quote you&rsquo;ll hear again and again, especially coming from Dr. Fauci &mdash; that&rsquo;s not true,&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;Because half the country has natural immunity from prior infection. And some doctors &mdash; especially the old school doctors &mdash; have dismissed that.&rdquo;Makary was particularly critical of medical officials&rsquo; decisions to close schools and slammed groupthink in the medical community. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16952"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16952" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students sue UT-Austin over COVID-era tuition]</a>&ldquo;Why do adults get their bowling alleys and restaurants, but kids are shut out of their livelihoods?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an American disgrace. And I think what we&rsquo;ve lost a little bit in the medical profession is to speak your mind. Too many people are worried about what folks are gonna think of you.&rdquo;Noting that self-harm claims among children have risen several hundred percent since the beginning of the pandemic, Makary said that &ldquo;from a medical standpoint, from a public health standpoint, kids need to be in school.&rdquo;Campus Reform recently reported that the editorial team of a student newspaper at Johns Hopkins retracted an article featuring a university study claiming that COVID-19 did not significantly increase the death rate in 2020. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16463"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16463" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Johns Hopkins newspaper removes study examining COVID death rate]</a>One editor said that the article was being used to spread &ldquo;dangerous inaccuracies&rdquo; online.Campus Reform reached out to Makary for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ben Zeisloft</a> on twitter.

He denounced officials’ decisions to close down schools and pointed out groupthink in the medical community.

Johns Hopkins doctor: Closed schools are an ‘American disgrace’

A Louisiana state lawmaker introduced a bill to ban schools from teaching the &ldquo;divisive concepts&rdquo; of critical race theory at state-funded schools.&nbsp;State Rep. Ray Garofalo (R-LA) filed the <a href="http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211990" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legislation</a>, which addresses &ldquo;certain concepts related to race and sex in elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary education institutions,&quot; on April 2.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17195" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Marco Rubio targets Confucius Institutes with new bill]</a>The bill bans a litany of &ldquo;divisive concepts,&rdquo; including the notions that &ldquo;one race or sex is inherently superior or inferior to another race or sex,&rdquo; that &ldquo;an individual should be discriminated against, favored, or receive differential treatment solely or partly because of the individual&#39;s race or sex,&rdquo; and that &ldquo;an individual, by virtue of the individual&#39;s race or sex, bears responsibility or is to be held accountable for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex.&rdquo;Furthermore, teachers are disallowed from teaching that meritocracy or capitalism inherently originate with any particular race or sex. Educators are not to state that &ldquo;the concepts of capitalism, free markets, or working for a private party in exchange for wages are racist and sexist or oppress a given race or sex.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17197" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Iowa bill targets colleges that teach New York Times&#39; &#39;racist&#39; and &#39;historically inaccurate&#39; 1619 Project]</a>The legislation would also stop teachers from alleging that &ldquo;either the United States of America or the state of Louisiana is fundamentally, institutionally, or systemically racist or sexist.&rdquo;&nbsp;Rep. Garofalo&rsquo;s bill would apply to public postsecondary institutions and nonpublic postsecondary institutions that receive state funds. Lawmakers across the country are making similar proposals following the growing popularity of critical race theory and so-called &ldquo;diversity, equity, and inclusion&rdquo; trainings.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16254" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Oregon promises to ignore Trump&#39;s critical race theory executive order]</a>Most recently, Iowa legislators proposed a bill that would defund any school forwarding the tenets of Nikole Hannah-Jones&rsquo; 1619 Project.Many such pieces of legislation stem from President Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping,&rdquo; which barred federal agencies from instituting or funding diversity trainings that taught false narratives about race, sex, or the United States.&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to Rep. Garofalo for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Other states are enacting similar proposals in the mold of President Trump’s 2020 executive order.

Louisiana introduces bill to ban teaching of Critical Race Theory topics like 'institutional racism'

In an essay <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/op-ed-give-californias-college-students-vaccine-priority-without-it-fall-campus-life-is-in-danger/ar-BB1dN7FQ">published</a> in the Los Angeles Times, two UCLA deans argued that <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">California&rsquo;s college students should have priority in getting the Covid-19 vaccine.Law school dean Jennifer Mnookin and music school dean Eileen Strempel argued that California&rsquo;s college students should have priority in getting the Covid-19 vaccine.&ldquo;Faculty, staff and students need to be given access to the vaccine sooner rather than later so that a full university life can resume in the fall,&rdquo; they wrote, recommending that &ldquo;students must also be part of the vaccine equation by summer.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17305" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UK universities could end up paying students back for services not provided during COVID]</a>Mnookin and Strempel do not think students necessarily need to be in line in front of the elderly, front-line workers, and those with an elevated health risk, but that the negative impacts of Covid-19 on college campuses provide enough reason to vaccinate them as soon as possible.The video conference teaching model does not, they said, allow for the usual &ldquo;high-density spaces where students and faculty interact inside and outside classrooms, laboratories, dorms and practice rooms.&rdquo; And the current &ldquo;low-density&rdquo; campus model &ldquo;cannot be the hub of intellectual intensity, the powerful collective place of invention and inquiry, nor fully inhabit its proven role as an engine of educational and economic activity.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17375" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: New &#39;G&#39; grading policy will allow Pitt professors to pass students who don&#39;t complete coursework by end of semester]</a>Online teaching has also been harder on minority communities than others, they said, arguing that the &quot;digital divide&quot; has become apparent throughout Covid-19, and will be more so if online learning continues.&nbsp;And they hope returning students to campus will reverse &quot;the estimated COVID-19 related economic losses through the end of 2020 (excluding the health system) topped $400 million.&quot;Neither Strempel or Mnookin responded when asked for further clarification on the op-ed.Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/profile?pid=6097034" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Addison Pummill</a>

The professors argued that the Zoom classroom does not allow for much interaction.

UCLA deans call for vaccine priority for California college students

Skidmore College in New York will <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/22/skidmore-college-says-progressive-zionists-for-peace-can-form-trial-club/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">allow</a>&nbsp;a student group called the &quot;Progressive Zionists for Peace&quot; to undergo a trial period as a student group on campus, reversing its previous <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/15/skidmore-college-students-denied-trial-period-for-progressive-zionists-for-peace-club/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">decision</a> not to recognize the pro-Israel group as an official club until it gained &quot;more diverse perspectives.&quot;&nbsp;As first reported by <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/15/skidmore-college-students-denied-trial-period-for-progressive-zionists-for-peace-club/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Algemeiner</a>&nbsp;on March 15, the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Club Affairs Committee of the Student Government Association (SGA) at Skidmore College denied the group&rsquo;s application for trial status in March because of concerns &ldquo;that a dialogue focused club with one perspective being conveyed could be troublesome.&quot;The students could reapply to become a club, according to student government senator Sarah Baker, after they made efforts to gain &ldquo;more diverse perspectives&rdquo; or &quot;reframe the mission to be more advocate focused with a specific stance.&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16616" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Banning Israeli hummus and more anti-Semitic acts in 2020]</a>Progressive Zionists for Peace founder Nessa Goldhirsch Brown told <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/15/skidmore-college-students-denied-trial-period-for-progressive-zionists-for-peace-club/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Algemeiner</a> that she hoped to recruit &ldquo;pro-Israel, pro-peace students to organize to act together on behalf of a two-state solution and a more peaceful, secure, and democratic future for both Israelis and Palestinians.&quot;They were motivated, she said, by the Student Government Association&#39;s previously granting trial status to the Students for Justice in Palestine in New York.&nbsp;Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in New York City is a student group that <a href="https://nycsjp.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">describes itself as</a> &ldquo;a diverse group of students and community members in New York City organized on democratic principles to fulfill our role as solidarity organizers against U.S. imperialism and Zionist settler-colonialism.&quot;The subject has also been brought up in the state legislature, with <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S3712?utm_content=in_senate_comm&utm_campaign=bill_alerts&utm_source=ny_state_senate&utm_medium=email" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Senate Bill S3712</a> in New York being aimed at stopping universities from funding students groups that promote &ldquo;hate speech.&quot; This included groups like Boycotting, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17308" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Virginia Tech soccer player who refused to kneel during anthem sues coach for alleged &#39;abuse and retaliation&#39;]</a>The college&#39;s reasoning for denying Progressive Zionists for Peace trial status &ldquo;was very hypocritical, confusing, and clear of a political bias against Israel. Zionism is an issue close to our hearts and we are enraged and disappointed that our school is clearly lenient towards some social/political issues but not others&rdquo;, Brown <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/15/skidmore-college-students-denied-trial-period-for-progressive-zionists-for-peace-club/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>.&nbsp;Jewish groups and free speech advocates also decried the decision. Stopantisemitism.org, a watchdog for anti-semitism, tweeted &ldquo;Skidmore College: Social Justice for Palestine has our full support. Also Skidmore College: Progressive Zionists for Peace. DENIED. Why is this discrimination being allowed at your school @skidmorecollege&rdquo;<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Skidmore College: &#39;Social Justice for Palestine&#39; has our full support. Also Skidmore College: Progressive Zionists for Peace&#39; DENIED. Why is this discrimination being allowed at your school <a href="https://twitter.com/SkidmoreCollege?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SkidmoreCollege</a>?! <a href="https://t.co/lczL6Swmlx">pic.twitter.com/lczL6Swmlx</a>&mdash; StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1371613758099972099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2021</a></blockquote> The college was also denounced in a scathing <a href="https://www.thefire.org/fire-letter-to-skidmore-college-march-17-2021/">letter</a> by Sabrina Conza, a program analyst for the <a href="https://www.thefire.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)</a>.&ldquo;This viewpoint-based rejection is a form of censorship that violates Skidmore&rsquo;s commitment to its students freedom of association and expression,&rdquo; she wrote, noting that the university&rsquo;s student handbook guarantees &ldquo;freedom of speech, peaceful assembly, the press, and religion, and the right to petition, limited only by protection of property, safety, and mutual respect.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17252" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UMKC promotes &lsquo;Angry White Men and How They Ruined the World&rsquo;]</a>Sara Miga, the director of external relations and strategic communications for Skidmore College told Campus Reform&nbsp;that the decision was &quot;never an issue of religion or ideology,&quot; but said that the Progressive Zionists were granted a trial period after a &quot;follow-up discussion&quot; occurred.&ldquo;On Friday, March 19, the Club Affairs Committee and the students seeking to establish Progressive Zionists for Peace engaged in a follow-up discussion to clarify technical matters of definition and scope, and the Club Affairs Committee voted to move the club into a trial period. This was never an issue of religion or ideology. &nbsp;Skidmore does not and will not tolerate anti-Semitism or religious discrimination of any kind. Skidmore seeks to create a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment for all, and there is no place for discrimination at Skidmore. Skidmore College is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community in which members develop their abilities to live in a complex and interconnected world. In line with this mission, thoughtful, spirited and sometimes challenging discussions are encouraged. We support our students in their efforts to work out student governance and organization.&rdquo;In a statement to&nbsp;Campus Reform, Rena Nasar First, executive director of campus affairs for <a href="https://www.standwithus.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">StandWithUs</a>, an international non-partisan Israel education organization, said while its they&#39;re happy the decision was reversed, it&#39;s &quot;unacceptable&quot; that the club was denied recognition in the first place.&quot;It is good that this decision was reversed, but unacceptable that it happened in the first place. The Skidmore administration should take action to ensure that something like this never happens again,&quot; First said. Follow this author:&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SamPaco2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SamPaco2</a>

The student government eventually allowed the group to enter a trial period as a student group after a "follow-up" discussion occured.

In reversal of initial decision, college gives Zionist student group recognition on campus

Republican Representative Mo Brooks (R-Al.) introduced legislation Thursday that would require colleges and universities to report and disclose any gifts from foreign countries and entities.The <a href="https://brooks.house.gov/sites/brooks.house.gov/files/Zero%20Foreign%20Influence%20in%20Education%20Act%20of%202021.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zero Foreign Influence in Education Act</a> amends Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 which states that higher education institutions are only required to report gifts from foreign sources amounting to $250,000 or more in a calendar year.The new<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3136?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr+3136%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;legislation</a> would &ldquo;require American universities to report any and all monetary contracts or gifts from foreign countries and entities,&rdquo; &ldquo;require universities to publicly disclose the names of all foreign donors,&rdquo; as well as &nbsp;&ldquo;require universities to list gift reasons, any gift conditions, and the department, college, or project the money is intended for,&rdquo; according to a press release.Cosponsors of the bill include Congressman Barry Moore (R-Al.), Congressman Daniel Webster (R-Fl.), Congressman Lance Gooden (R-Tex.), Congressman Brian Babin (R-Tex.), Congressman Trent Kelly (R-Miss.), Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.).In an interview with Campus Reform, Brooks said that it &ldquo;probably&rdquo; will not gain bipartisan support because the &ldquo;socialist Democrats by and large have a great affinity for the communist Chinese party.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16857" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Multiple universities under the microscope for allegedly failing to disclose foreign ties]</a>In the <a href="https://brooks.house.gov/media-center/news-releases/congressman-mo-brooks-introduces-bill-exposing-foreign-influence-college" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">news release</a>, Brooks claims that Section 117 had &ldquo;historically gone unenforced until the Trump Administration started forcing schools to report.&rdquo; Because universities &ldquo;ignored&rdquo; Section 117, &nbsp;&ldquo;billions in foreign funds&rdquo; have been funneled to American universities in secret.&nbsp;When asked how this legislation would be enforced should it pass, Brooks told Campus Reform, &ldquo;Hopefully the universities of their own accord will obey the law out of fear that the penalties could have a significant, adverse effect on their universities. Ultimately, if universities are not obeying the law, then it comes down to the President of the United States or the Justice Department.&rdquo;&ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t have this law, you can&rsquo;t expect the president to be able to do anything of substanceThe news release highlights a 2020 U.S. Department of Education <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/institutional-compliance-section-117.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">report</a> which found that at least $6.5 billion in foreign money failed to be disclosed by universities and colleges.&nbsp;&ldquo;Universities already have to keep track of where their dollars come from and what gets spent where. Shedding light on which foreign countries influence American education via large cash donations is a basic transparency requirement not only for students and faculty but for general oversight and national security,&rdquo; the news release states.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16739" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: GOP lawmakers demand UPenn Biden Center release foreign donation records]</a>The release also points out that there is a potential loophole in the current legislation that America&rsquo;s adversaries take advantage of.&ldquo;Foreign enterprises more adversarial to the United States know about the $250,000 threshold currently required in statute so they space out their checks or keep them under the $250,000 bar so the schools do not have to report.,&rdquo; the news release claims.Brooks also brought up Confucius Institutes in America as the &ldquo;most glaring and egregious instance of a foreign power infiltrating American universities.&rdquo;&nbsp;For years, Campus Reform has <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14847" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a> on the prevalence of Chinese Communist Party funded Confucius Institutes on U.S. college campuses. These institutes are marketed as Chinese language and culture centers; however, U.S. intelligence officials have warned that these centers are basically &quot;propaganda&quot; arms of the communist country.&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not concerned much about whatever influence there is from other Republics, but I am greatly concerned about wrongful influence via the Communist Chinese Party,&rdquo; Brooks told Campus Reform.&nbsp;&ldquo;Because in their worldview, there is no place for America&rsquo;s Bill of Rights and there is no place for the citizenry electing the political leadership,&rdquo; he continued.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17195" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Marco Rubio targets Confucius Institutes with new bill]</a>&ldquo;Recent reports of academic espionage and foreign influence in American higher education highlight the need for robust transparency requirements for foreign gifts to universities,&rdquo; Brooks said.&ldquo;The American people deserve to know when foreign countries, many of whom are America&rsquo;s geopolitical foes, are attempting to buy access to research universities or covertly trying to mold young American minds by surreptitiously influencing curriculum or extracurricular activities,&rdquo; he continued.&ldquo;If universities, which are heavily subsidized by the American taxpayer, are going to take foreign money, they should have to show all of it,&rdquo; Brooks stated.&ldquo;Sunshine is the best disinfectant,&rdquo; he concluded.When asked what the next step is in ridding higher education institutions of foreign influence, Brooks said it is &ldquo;to cut off federal funding to any university that persists in engaging in joint ventures or partnerships or the like with undesirable foreign interests.&rdquo;&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/redwave1776" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@redwave1776</a>

Rep. Mo Brooks wants to change that with a new bill that would mandate the disclosure of all foreign gifts received by U.S. colleges.

Republicans introduce legislation to require colleges to report all foreign gifts

The College of William &amp; Mary and the University of Southern will close their Confucius Institutes, Campus Reform&nbsp;recently learned.The College of William &amp; Mary wrote that its Confucius Institute, which was launched in 2011, will <a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/index.php">close</a> on June 30 &ldquo;at the completion of the current agreement with the university.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17199">[RELATED: Tennessee governor moves to end Confucius Institutes]</a>&ldquo;William &amp; Mary will continue to explore and strengthen its independent collaborations with Beijing Normal University (BNU) and other universities in China in order to maintain robust language, cultural and research opportunities for our students, faculty and the wider Williamsburg community,&rdquo; the school said.&nbsp;The school&rsquo;s Confucius Institute &ldquo;is a collaborative program in partnership with Beijing Normal University (BNU) and the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban), a public institution affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17016" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Senate passes bill to combat Chinese Communist Party propaganda on campus]</a>William &amp; Mary Director of News and Media Suzanne Clavet told&nbsp;Campus Reform that they will maintain their relationship with BNU &ldquo;in order to maintain robust language, cultural and research opportunities for our students, faculty and the wider Williamsburg community.&rdquo;According to the William &amp; Mary Confucius Institute <a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/wm-agreement-with-hanban_signed-2016_english-version.pdf">agreement</a>, the center has a mandate to &ldquo;increase mutual understanding among people in China and in the United States.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=16758" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Calls to close CCP-funded Confucius Institutes grow louder. Here&#39;s what&#39;s fueling them.]</a>The University of Southern Maine likewise shuttered its Confucius Institute, stating that it &ldquo;reached too few students to be sustainable,&rdquo; as the <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2021/04/13/usm-cutting-ties-with-chinese-government-funded-program/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Press Herald</a> reported.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17189">[RELATED: Students at Tufts successfully organize to get their school&rsquo;s Confucius Institute scrapped]</a>Leading American officials consistently warn that despite these seemingly benign intentions, the Confucius Institute program functionally exists to propagate and justify the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.Most recently, Sen. Marco Rubio proposed passing the Foreign Influence Transparency Act, which would officially recognize that Confucius Institutes are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and would require &ldquo;institutions that have entered into an agreement with a Confucius Institute to disclose the full agreement on its website and to the Department of Education or risk losing their Student and Exchange Visitor Program.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16882">[RELATED: House Republicans urge Biden to reconsider rule on CCP&#39;s Confucius Institutes]</a>Likewise, House Republicans asked the Biden administration to reinstitute Trump-era regulations that would compel universities to reveal their ties to the Confucius Institute.Under pressure from top lawmakers, other schools, like Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, shuttered their own Confucius Institutes in recent weeks.Campus Reform reached out to the College of William &amp; Mary and the University of Southern Maine for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.&nbsp;Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://@BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

American officials consistently warn that Confucius institutes functionally exist to justify the ideology of thus Instite Chinese Communist Party.

William & Mary, U of Southern Maine become latest schools to close down Confucius Institutes

Oklahoma State University-Tulsa will join other campuses across the United States in creating &ldquo;racial healing circles.&rdquo;According to the university&#39;s <a href="https://tulsa.okstate.edu/trht" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, the new &ldquo;Center for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation&rdquo; is part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation&rsquo;s nationwide initiative to &ldquo;address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17333" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Prof tells Senate Judiciary Committee that election security laws &#39;target Black voters&#39; like &#39;Jim Crow&#39;]</a>According to the Kellogg Foundation&rsquo;s <a href="https://healourcommunities.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>, each of the fourteen TRHT initiatives across the United States received between $1.5 and $4 million in funds that last between two and five years. In 2017, the organization committed $24 million to fulfill the projects.OSU-Tulsa Communications Coordinator Aaron Campbell told Campus Reform that the center&rsquo;s activities &ldquo;will be donor and grant funded.&rdquo; The center &ldquo;has applied for a Kellogg Foundation grant and is awaiting an award decision,&rdquo; while OSU-Tulsa &ldquo;is paying a small stipend to the acting director of the center, who is a faculty member.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16816" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Kentucky promotes segregated &#39;racial healing circles&#39;]</a>Among the TRHT center&#39;s first initiatives will be &ldquo;racial healing circles&rdquo; &mdash; which involve &ldquo;conversations between participants to discuss experiences with race and conscious and unconscious biases.&rdquo;Racial healing circles &mdash; which are run by &ldquo;trained racial healing circle practitioners&rdquo; &mdash; provide &ldquo;opportunities to reflect and acknowledge the participants&#39; unquestioned assumptions and biases in a way that is non-threatening and encouraging.&rdquo;&nbsp;Participants become able to &ldquo;confront the historic and contemporary causes and effects of systemic racism while being empowered to promote equity and social justice.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16612" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Prof leading &#39;racial healing&#39; commission says &#39;racial reconciliation&#39; is &#39;not applicable&#39;]</a>Campus Reform has reported on several instances of colleges establishing &ldquo;racial healing circles&rdquo; and &ldquo;Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation&rdquo; groups.For instance, a University of Kentucky professor hosted a free six-week virtual series of racial healing circles to &ldquo;allow Black community members to discuss racial identity development, racial socialization and cognitive, emotional and somatic responses to racism.&rdquo;Participants were able to join sessions such as &ldquo;Surrendering Superwoman Syndrome,&rdquo; &ldquo;Healing While Black,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Family Matters&rdquo; &mdash; geared toward Black women, men, and families, respectively.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17259" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: While spending millions on luxury homes, BLM co-founder told college students that capitalism is &#39;more tragic&#39; than COVID-19]</a>Likewise, a group of professors is attempting to launch an official &ldquo;United States Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation&rdquo; movement alongside a similar push from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).Campus Reform reached out to Oklahoma State University-Tulsa for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Other universities across the United States have been establishing similar initiatives.

OSU-Tulsa becomes the latest campus to run ‘racial healing circles’

Responding to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/derek-chauvin-trial-verdict" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">conviction</a> of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, American University announced that it will now offer &ldquo;Black Affinity Housing.&rdquo;&ldquo;The murder of George Floyd and the many other acts of violence against Black people and communities of color are horrible reminders that racism still exists in many forms&rdquo; the university <a href="https://www.american.edu/president/announcements/april-20-2021.cfm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> on Tuesday. It stressed the importance of creating &ldquo;the space to process these events and care for ourselves and one another.&rdquo;In accordance with this goal, it is &ldquo;working to open Black Affinity Housing in the fall and advance a sense of belonging for the community.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17241" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Chico State president will lead university in &#39;antiracist&#39; journey after reading book by Critical Race Theorist]</a>American University says on its 2021-2022 room selection <a href="https://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/room-selection.cfm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a> for returning students says that &ldquo;the Black Affinity Housing located in Roper Hall provides an intentional residential community dedicated to celebrating, exploring, and affirming black student experiences at AU and beyond.&rdquo;&ldquo;The live-in experience encourages dialogue and community building that is mindful of the diverse social, cultural, and academic needs of Black and multicultural students,&rdquo; the university continues. &ldquo;Black Affinity Housing will enrich all of campus life by promoting solidarity among students of all backgrounds and identities.&rdquo;Campus Reform recently covered an op-ed written by American University freshman Kayla Kelly, who argued that welcoming White students back to campus after COVID-induced shutdowns &ldquo;could evoke similar effects of settler colonialism and negatively impact&rdquo; the Black community of Washington, D.C.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16917" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student newspaper publishes op-ed criticizing return of &#39;invasive species&#39; White peers to &#39;Chocolate City&#39;]</a>&ldquo;Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism that replaces the original population with a new invasive species,&rdquo; Kelly wrote, &ldquo;the settler system stakes over the space, resources and culture of the environment it encompasses, displacing the original population.&rdquo;&nbsp;Other prominent universities across the United States have also experimented with segregated housing and events.&nbsp;The Executive Director of Residential Life at the University of Nevada-Reno, for example, said on April 1 that racially segregated dorms &ldquo;are a national best practice in university residential life and housing communities.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17167" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &#39;A national best practice&#39;: University employee doubles down on defense of racially segregated housing]</a>Campus Reform reached out to American University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

In its letter about the Derek Chauvin verdict, American University announced that it would institute “Black Affinity Housing.”

American University announces 'Black Affinity Housing'

The University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business sent an email to students on April 7 announcing the creation of &ldquo;identity spaces.&rdquo; According to an email obtained by Campus Reform, &ldquo;The Program Office [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] DEI Team across all platforms are facilitating open identity spaces for students to meet, network, and socialize with other students across all programs that share the same identity.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17045" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17045" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17045" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley &#39;Black Graduation&#39; under fire for bringing back &#39;Democrats&#39; segregationist history&#39;]</a> There are 11 different &ldquo;communit[ies]&rdquo; for students to join, with those being first-generation students, women, veterans, Black/African-American, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, Native American, religious minorities, international students, Asian Americans, and disability. The &ldquo;identity spaces&rdquo; will be held until the end of the spring semester, according to the email. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17001" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17001" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17001" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UC-Berkeley unveils plan for racial quota]</a> Communications Director for the California College Republicans Dylan Martin told Campus Reform, universities should &ldquo;not be pushing anything that encourages segregation of students into racial, sexual, and religious groups.&rdquo; &ldquo;Instead of forming &#39;identity space&#39; cliques, our universities should focus on bonding us around things everyone has the potential to take interest in, not fixed racial, sexual, and religious backgrounds. Our students should &#39;meet, network, and socialize&#39; with people from all walks of life. They should bond on ideas, on sports, on campus events, on music, on art &mdash; not on things like the color of their skin. If students choose to pursue creating identity groups on their own accord, then they have the freedom to do so. However, our universities should not be pushing anything that encourages segregation of students into racial, sexual, and religious groups,&rdquo; he said. Martin went on to say how this decision was not surprising following UC Berkeley&rsquo;s decision to host a separate &ldquo;Black Graduation ceremony for students.&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to UC-Berkeley, but did not receive a response. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ashleyecarnahan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ashleyecarnahan</a>

Students are to use these spaces to “meet, network, and socialize.”

Berkeley Haas School of Business creates 11 different 'Identity Spaces' for networking

Over 226 students and 43 organizations at Harvard University signed a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NtNoEeGoHUFPhUJJxhw0EXKJTpC0n9fi_bXrx3YbVYU/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> calling on the university administration to condemn Israel&rsquo;s &ldquo;excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians.&rdquo; The petition, created by the Palestine Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, and more organizations, states that Israel is committing &ldquo;ethnic clensing.&rdquo; &ldquo;We, as the Palestine Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, the Harvard Palestine Health Initiative at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Divinity School Students for Palestinian Rights, and the Middle East and North Africa Student Organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design write to firstly acknowledge and express our outrage at the latest wave of Israeli state-sanctioned violence against Palestinians,&rdquo; the petition reads. &ldquo;The current escalation of violence against Palestinians in Palestine and in Israel follows years of systematic oppression and ethnic cleansing committed by the State of Israel.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15905" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: CSUN professor runs &#39;Boycott Israel Resource Page&#39; on university website]</a> The petition goes on to state that the violence is &ldquo;right-wing&rdquo; and &ldquo;Israeli state-sanctioned,&rdquo; also claiming that Israel &ldquo;has erected a web of discriminatory laws that pervade every aspect of Palestinian life.&rdquo; Additionally, the petition calls on the Harvard University administration to divest from all companies who are &ldquo;involved in the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise.&rdquo; &ldquo;We call on our university to end its complicity with Israeli apartheid policies and occupation by removing its investments in companies that are involved in the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise until equal rights are guaranteed for all citizens in Israel and Palestine,&rdquo; the petition states. The student groups state that Israel has enacted &ldquo;the most intense aerial bombardments of Gaza since 2014&rdquo; this week, but fail to mention the rockets being fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, with targets including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and more, according to <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-diverts-flights-rocket-barrage-palestinians-death-67-1.9796891" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Haaretz</a>. Making multiple demands, the students who signed the petition want Harvard to make a &ldquo;public statement rebuking Israel&rsquo;s excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16441" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: San Francisco State University passes BDS resolution against Israel]</a> The Executive Director for Campus Affairs for SandWithUs, a pro-Israel education organization, Rena Nasar First told Campus Reform that they are &quot;appalled&quot; by the efforts of Harvard students to spread &quot;misinformation and hate against Israel.&quot; &ldquo;We are appalled by the efforts of Harvard University student groups to spread misinformation and hate against Israel. Israel has the right to defend itself from the constant barrage of rockets targeting Israeli civilians by Hamas, a terrorist organization,&quot; First said. &quot;Such misinformation and hate will only serve to harm innocent Israelis, Jews and Palestinians. We call on Harvard&rsquo;s administration to condemn this misinformation and hate and, the terrorism inflicted against innocent Israelis by Hamas. It is imperative that Harvard&rsquo;s administration brings communities together in pursuit of accurate education and peace building to ensure a campus environment free from hate.&rdquo; The petition also calls on students to call the U.S. State Department and Deoartment of Defnse to &ldquo; Demand the end of Israel&rsquo;s forced displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalem,&rdquo; write to their congressperson and ask them to support H.R. 2590, the <a href="https://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-introduces-historic-legislation-defending-human-rights-palestinian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act</a>, and speak out on social media. &ldquo;Educate yourself and your community about human rights abuses in Palestine. Write, tweet, and share on social media platforms, but above all, reach out to your representatives at the federal and local levels,&rdquo; the petition states. As of May 13, the petition has gained 226 signatures from students at Harvard, and 43 signatures from student organizations. Campus Reform reached out to Harvard University for comment. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/asabes10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@asabes10</a><a href="https://twitter.com/asabes10" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600;" target="_blank"></a><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/asabes10" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600;" target="_blank"></a>

The petition also demands the university make a “public statement rebuking Israel’s excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians.”

Harvard students demand university to 'condemn' Israel’s 'excessive use of force'

A senior fellow at Yale University&rsquo;s China center wrote an article explaining why Confucius Institutes should not be removed from American university campuses.&nbsp;<a href="https://law.yale.edu/jamie-p-horsley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jamie Horsley</a> &mdash; senior fellow at Yale Law School&rsquo;s Paul Tsai China Center and a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution &mdash; wrote in a Lawfare&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/its-time-for-a-new-policy-on-confucius-institutes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">article</a> reposted by Brookings that &ldquo;the U.S. government should increase funding for Mandarin language and China studies courses, but also stop forcing cash-strapped universities to choose between federal funding and properly managed CI programs.&rdquo;As Campus Reform&nbsp;has frequently <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15448" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a>, &nbsp;Confucius Institutes have drawn suspicion from American lawmakers as a &ldquo;foreign mission&rdquo; closely tied with the Chinese Communist Party.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15448" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: US designates Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes as &#39;foreign missions&#39;]</a>Horsley discussed &ldquo;a decline of American student interest in China studies and learning Mandarin Chinese&rdquo; &mdash; a trend which, combined with &ldquo;inflammatory rhetoric&rdquo; about Confucius Institute programs &mdash; exacerbates &ldquo;a national foreign language deficit at a time when training Mandarin speakers familiar with an ever more consequential China should be a national priority.&rdquo;She also recommended that the Biden administration &ldquo;lift, or provide necessary waivers of, federal funding restrictions on universities that demonstrate appropriate academic freedom and institutional safeguards around their CIs, which are no longer directly funded by the Chinese government.&rdquo;&ldquo;It should also consider authorizing the Confucius Institute U.S. Center (CIUS) to serve as a visa sponsor to assist Chinese teachers and staff of CIs obtain the proper visas, as well as enable CIUS to serve as a clearinghouse for information on such PRC personnel for relevant U.S. government agencies,&rdquo; she added.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17168" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: A Stanford researcher was recently indicted for China ties. As new China center opens, has Stanford learned its lesson?]</a>Later in the article, Horsley admitted that Confucius Institutes generated &ldquo;legitimate concerns about academic freedom and independence due to their direct support from, and admitted role as a &ldquo;soft power&rdquo; instrument for, China&rsquo;s party-state.&rdquo; Though she also acknowledges that &ldquo;The CI project is intended to promote a favorable understanding of China,&rdquo; she notes that the program does not &ldquo;enjoy a monopoly over information available on campuses.&rdquo;The <a href="https://law.yale.edu/china-center/about-us" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paul Tsai China Center</a> &ldquo;works collaboratively with a broad range of top experts in the Chinese government, universities, and civil society on concrete projects designed to have a positive practical impact.&rdquo;In 2016, Taiwanese-born <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/joseph-tsai/?sh=2848bf137b32" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Tsai</a> &mdash; son of Paul Tsai and co-founder of Chinese e-commerce business Alibaba &mdash; funded the center with a $30 million investment. The center was subsequently named after his father.Campus Reform reached out to Horsley for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.&nbsp;Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ben Zeisloft</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;

The China center is funded by a co-founder of Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba.

Senior fellow at Yale’s China center explains why Confucius Institutes should stay

JACOBSON: If we defund police on college campuses, 'we will certainly see an increase in violent crime' in academic institutions  

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several hundred professors and doctors requested that the United States Food and Drug Administration waive regulations stopping them from sending abortion pills to mothers through the mail. Nearly ten months later, many of these same professors want the regulations permanently removed. The professionals <a href="https://downloads.regulations.gov/FDA-2020-D-1106-0100/attachment_1.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote</a> to the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director Janet Woodcock in April 2020, asking that the agency waive drug safety <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/risk-evaluation-and-mitigation-strategies-rems" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">requirements</a> for mifepristone &mdash; also known as RU-486, the key ingredient in an abortion pill. &ldquo;Primarily, we are concerned that any delay in accessing abortion care is unsafe for patients,&rdquo; read the letter. It later went on to say that &ldquo;during this unprecedented public health crisis, it is imperative that patients, especially those who are vulnerable or who live in rural areas, can use telehealth and mail-order pharmacy services to access needed healthcare without unnecessary restrictions, particularly for medications that do not pose a risk of abuse or overdose.&rdquo; Campus Reform asked 25 of the roughly 150 academics who signed the letter if they would currently support the waiving of the FDA&rsquo;s safety requirements. Of the five professors who responded, all support a continued removal of the regulation. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16747" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16747" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16747" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Young, pro-life activists across US make their voices heard in pandemic era March for Life]</a> <a href="https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/133101" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/133101" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/133101" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeremy Golding</a>, a professor of family medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, told Campus Reform that &ldquo;the FDA&rsquo;s restrictions are purely political in origin and have little or nothing to do with good medical practice.&rdquo; <a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/elizabeth_gromet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elizabeth Gromet</a>, a resident affiliated with Yale School of Medicine, told Campus Reform that she is entirely in favor of the elimination of in-person dispensation requirement &mdash; &ldquo;both in the context of this pandemic but also in general.&rdquo; &ldquo;Abortion care should be accessible and safe, and requiring our patients to come into a clinical setting simply to receive a medication in-person exposes them and their loved ones to unnecessary risk without clinical benefit, when we as health care providers and more broadly as a country should be utilizing every possible strategy to decrease our transmission rates,&rdquo; she explained. Gromet stated that her views are not necessarily reflective of Yale University&rsquo;s views on the matter. <a href="https://health.ucdavis.edu/team/search/11714/eleanor-schwarz---women-s-health---health-services-research---epidemiology-sacramento" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eleanor Schwarz</a>, a professor of internal medicine at the University of California-Davis, explained to Campus Reform&nbsp;that &ldquo;given the current state of the pandemic and mifepristone&rsquo;s robust safety profile, mailing this medication to patients makes perfect sense.&rdquo; &ldquo;More broadly, the goal of our healthcare system should always be to ensure prompt access to treatments needed for time sensitive conditions,&rdquo; she said. <a href="https://eisenberglab.mbi.ucla.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Eisenberg</a>, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California Los Angeles, still supports the letter. &ldquo;In truth, the REMS governing mifepristone is always a barrier for people who need access to timely abortion care,&rdquo; continued Eisenberg. &ldquo;While the delays imposed by REMS impose health risks for patients, the in-person provision also poses serious health risks to staff and healthcare providers like me too.&rdquo; <a href="https://case.edu/law/our-school/faculty-directory/jessie-hill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jessie Hill</a>, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, told Campus Reform that the measure &ldquo;remains necessary.&rdquo; She explained that in December, a Maryland court decided that &ldquo;the pandemic conditions are worse than before and that the requirement should remain suspended.&rdquo;&nbsp; However, the Supreme Court overturned the ruling in January. &ldquo;The virus is still extremely prevalent and transmission rates are still near their peak. The in-person pick-up requirement is a medically unnecessary bureaucratic restriction that should not be applied even in non-pandemic times,&rdquo; Hill said. &ldquo;Studies have shown that the drug is very safe and can be taken safely with remote physician supervision.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16527" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: 5 times campus leftists attempted to silence pro-lifers in 2020]</a> The FDA <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/questions-and-answers-mifeprex" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lists</a> cramping and vaginal bleeding as &ldquo;expected effects&rdquo; of mifepristone usage. The agency states that very heavy vaginal bleeding that requires medical attention can sometimes result from mifepristone. Mothers are legally permitted to use the abortion pill to end their pregnancies through 70 days of gestation. Babies have a heartbeat 21 days into a pregnancy. Campus Reform reached out to the FDA for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Ten months later, many indicated a desire for the mail restriction to be permanently removed.

Profs who support abortion pills by mail due to COVID still support it 10 months later

A new Washington State House Bill would give Washington State college students with student healthcare plans access to abortions. <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1009&Initiative=false&Year=2021"></a> <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1009&Initiative=false&Year=2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House Bill 1009</a> sponsored by 18 Democrats, held their first hearing on January 13 to discuss mandating that student healthcare plans provide abortion coverage.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16664"></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16664" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: College Board scraps key parts of SAT to &#39;reduce demands&#39; on students. Expert questions that logic.]</a> The legislation states, in part, that &quot;if a health plan issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2019, provides coverage for maternity care or services, the health plan must also provide a covered person with substantially equivalent coverage to permit the abortion of a pregnancy.&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16564"></a>If approved, the bill would require healthcare plans initiated after January 2022 to provide abortion access for full-time undergraduate and graduate students. In 2018, state lawmakers passed the Reproductive Parity Act, which required state-sponsored health care plans to provide abortion coverage if they include maternity care, excepted student health insurance plans from the requirement, <a href="https://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_29685e8c-5627-11eb-bc24-efeedd025633.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according to the Daily UW student newspaper</a>. Washington State Democratic Representative and bill sponsor My-Linh Thai commented to The Daily UW that the original piece of 2018 legislation should have included abortions. She insisted that there should not be an argument over it, but instead fixed.&nbsp; National Right to Life Director of Communications Laura Echevarria told Campus Reform that her organization opposes &quot;anyone or any entity being forced to include abortion coverage or being forced to pay for it.&quot;&nbsp; &ldquo;Further, if the plan is at all subsidized, the taxpayers are paying for it&mdash; which we also oppose,&rdquo; she added.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16564" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Medical profs argue against sex designation on birth certificates]</a> Students for Life of America Spokesperson Kristi Hamrick told Campus Reform&ldquo; that &quot;real healthcare protects, cares for, supports and nurtures life.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Let&rsquo;s be clear,&quot; she added, &quot;pregnancy is not a disease &#39;cured&#39; by an abortion.&quot;&nbsp; &ldquo;Adding life-ending drugs and surgeries pollutes medical care and forces healthcare providers and insurance plans to market deadly abortions. People&#39;s conscience rights will be violated as they are forced into business with abortionists, paying to end lives no matter their viewpoint on the human rights issue of our day,&quot; Hamrick said.&quot; This is a sign that a predatory abortion industry has moved from &#39;choice&#39; to coercion, using the threat of law to force their agenda into daily life.&rdquo; Hamrick added that transforming state-funded institutions into &ldquo;abortion vendors doesn&#39;t serve their mission to equip the next generation with the skills they need to prosper.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Ending the lives of future students is not the purpose of our schools and plays into a misogynist, anti-woman mindset that says women can&#39;t succeed in relationships, at school and at work so we should sever the relationship between mother and child,&quot; she said.&nbsp; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/Jess__Custodio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;@Jess__Custodio</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Jess__Custodio" style="text-decoration:none;"></a>

Pro-life groups told Campus Reform that abortion is not “real healthcare," and condemned the move.

Washington State Dem lawmakers seek to mandate abortion coverage in student health care plans

During a University of Montana event on abortion access in the state, a speaker said that <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;crisis pregnancy centers are intentionally deceptive,&quot; that they &ldquo;prey on people,&quot; and said that abortions are <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;safer than most dental surgeries.&rdquo; On December 8, the University of Montana released a recorded Zoom <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Symlqkv1mT4&list=PLwNOzHpg-9XZ1HJ20M_hYSr1d1CNl3gi0&index=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lecture</a> about the alleged stifling of abortion access in Montana after previously being presented to students on October 29 during the university&rsquo;s annual <a href="https://www.umt.edu/diverseu/schedule/default.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DiverseU week</a>.&nbsp; The university released the video after being contacted by Campus Reform multiple times. Maggie Bornstein, a student at the university, gave the presentation and stated that she had been a longtime volunteer of Planned Parenthood.&nbsp; &quot;Abortion Access in Montana has been stifled by anti-choice legislation, acts of terrorism against Montana clinics, and a reduction in the number of clinics across the state,&quot; stated the description<iframe width="100%" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Symlqkv1mT4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> The 35-minute Zoom recording, now available on YouTube, addresses a concern for Amy Coney Barrett&rsquo;s nomination and includes the &ldquo;Unstoppable&rdquo; video produced by Planned Parenthood, which Bornstein claimed motivates her.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16006" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford OB-GYN prof claims late-term and post-birth abortions are &lsquo;not real.&#39; Pro-life groups beg to differ.]</a> While then addressing the decline in abortions in Montana, Bornstein claimed: &ldquo;abortions are steadily declining,&rdquo; but &ldquo;not because abortion is a bad thing.&quot; One of her biggest concerns however is that &ldquo;there are actually more crisis pregnancy centers in Montana than there are abortion providers&rdquo; She argues that this is of concern because &ldquo;crisis pregnancy centers are intentionally deceptive&rdquo; and &ldquo;prey on people.&quot; Bornstein even included a chart titled &ldquo;Signs You&rsquo;re at a Crisis Pregnancy Center,&rdquo; and the list included that &ldquo;their advertisements address your fears,&rdquo; &ldquo;they do outreach in low-income neighborhoods,&rdquo; and&nbsp;&ldquo;they might use images of infants, sometimes religious references, or the word &lsquo;hope.&rsquo;&rdquo; Bornstein finally declared near the end of her presentation that abortion is &ldquo;safer than most dental surgeries.&rdquo;&nbsp; Dr. David Roberts, however, is a practicing physician at the LaVie Pregnancy Clinic in Billings, Montana, and commented on the inaccuracy of such a statement.&nbsp; He said he personally completed abortion procedures throughout a stretch of roughly six years and stated that abortions are nowhere near as safe as <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Bornstein claims. &ldquo;I am personally aware of a young lady who died of Sepsis after an abortion,&quot; Roberts said. He also explained to Campus Reform that he was once contacted by an insurance company to review a chart for a woman who underwent an abortion procedure and her &ldquo;bowels were accidentally sucked up by the suction cannula&rdquo; after her uterus had been perforated. Overall, he concluded, &ldquo;I have been aware of patients that have come into the hospital with rather severe complications from an abortion.&rdquo; Dr. Al Olzewski is a physician who practiced in Montana for 32 years as a surgeon and said that &ldquo;the claim that abortions are safer than most dental surgeries is a hyper-exaggeration.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14471" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14471" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Utah health prof who advocates abortion fails to disclose Planned Parenthood ties]</a> Vince Tarallo, a student at the university, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that the event only shows how biased the university is toward the left. &ldquo;There is an obvious bias in most of the events put on at the university. They simply cultivate a left wing echo chamber and slap on the label of &lsquo;diversity.&rsquo;&rdquo; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Hailey Michelson, the Student Involvement and Branch Center Program Manager, told Campus Reform that presentations for the DiverseU event were <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">accepted through a topic proposal process in which the &ldquo;DiverseU student coordinator reviews and selects the presentations.&rdquo;&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">She said that <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;we hope DiverseU helps create a more equitable campus.&rdquo; Bornstein was also contacted, but she refused to provide a comment for Campus Reform. Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=5457260" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emily Kokot</a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=5457260" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank"></a>

The University of Montana hosted a Zoom lecture discussing abortion, during which the speaker said that abortion is “safer than most dental surgeries.”

UM hosts lecture claiming abortions are 'safer than most dental surgeries,' doctors disagree

Just weeks after sitting down for an exclusive interview with her father, Dinesh D&#39;Souza, Campus Reform spoke one-on-one with Danielle D&#39;Souza Gill about her new book,<a href="https://www.amazon.com/61-Million-Counting-Abortion-Epidemic/dp/1546099867" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;The Choice: The Abortion Divide in America</a>.&nbsp;Touching upon both the &quot;facts&quot; and &quot;feelings&quot; components of the abortion debate, D&#39;Souza makes the pro-life case in her 20-minute sit-down with Campus Reform. Noting that while medical technology only continues to advance, making even more clear how early life develops, the left only becomes more &quot;radical&quot; on the issue, advocating abortion even in cases where the sole reason for having the procedure is that the woman doesn&#39;t want the child.Watch the full interview and subscribe to Campus Reform&#39;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8sK_Bba0Eb-k33bD0ldhw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a> to never miss a video.&nbsp;<iframe width="100%" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GA3HWQVr-8w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Danielle D'Souza Gill on her new book, 'The Choice: The Abortion Divide in America'

Jennifer Conti, an OB-GYN <a href="https://stanfordhealthcare.org/doctors/c/jennifer-conti.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">professor</a> at Stanford Medical School, claimed that late-term and post-birth abortions are &ldquo;not real.&rdquo;On Oct. 6, President Trump tweeted that Democrats are in favor of &ldquo;very&rdquo; late-term abortion, &ldquo;right up until the time of birth, and beyond.&rdquo; He then referred to comments by Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkTopSKo1xs" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">expressed approval</a> of legislation legalizing abortion up to the moment of birth.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15837" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: WATCH: Leftist students, encouraged by College Dems leader, destroy pro-life display in broad daylight]</a> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Biden and Democrats just clarified the fact that they are fully in favor of (very) LATE TERM ABORTION, right up until the time of birth, and beyond - which would be execution. Biden even endorsed the Governor of Virginia, who stated this clearly for all to hear. GET OUT &amp; VOTE!!!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313445293912920064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote> Conti quoted the president&rsquo;s tweet, declaring that &ldquo;THIS IS NOT REAL&rdquo; and &ldquo;none of this actually happens.&rdquo; She has since deleted her tweet.&quot;I am one of a few hundred MDs in this country that are trained in complex abortion care,&quot; Conti wrote. &quot;THIS IS NOT REAL. None of this actually happens (and I can&#39;t believe I have to keep saying this).&quot;<a href="https://www.createdequal.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.createdequal.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Created Equal</a>, a nonprofit that seeks to inform voters about abortion, told Campus Reform that &ldquo;all evidence points to Conti not telling the truth,&rdquo; as New Mexico, New York, and many other states allow abortion up to birth.Created Equal External Affairs Assistant Lexie Hall pointed Campus Reform to the website of an abortion <a href="https://abortionclinics.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">provider</a> with sites in Nebraska and Maryland, which openly states on its website that it provides &ldquo;abortion care throughout pregnancy, meaning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimester abortion care.&rdquo;This particular provider provides explicit details of how it <a href="https://abortionclinics.org/third-trimester-surgical-abortions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">performs</a> abortions on pregnancies &ldquo;25 weeks and up.&rdquo;Hall also referred Campus Reform to Jill Stanek&rsquo;s February 2020 <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Stanek%20Testimony.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">testimony</a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Stanek explained that she was a nurse in a hospital that regularly left babies who survived abortions in the hospital&rsquo;s Soiled Utility Room until they died.Likewise, <a href="https://www.humancoalition.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Human Coalition</a> spokeswoman Heather Cirmo pointed Campus Reform to research from the Guttmacher Institute -- a pro-choice research organization -- <a href="https://s27589.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CLI-Fact-Sheet-Late-Term-Abortion-February-24-2020.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">suggesting</a> that late-term abortions compose at least 1.3 percent of all abortions in the United States.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15776" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Georgia Tech coughs up $50k to settle free speech lawsuit involving MLK&#39;s niece]</a>Live Action Director of External Affairs Alison Centofante pointed Campus Reform to an <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/state-abortions-happening-later/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">analysis</a> of state abortion data, indicating that more than 100,000 late-term abortions may have occurred in a single year. In many states, second and third-trimester abortions account for up to 17 percent of all abortions, according to Live Action.&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to Conti for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Evidence from both pro-life and pro-choice organizations speaks to the contrary.

Stanford OB-GYN prof claims late-term and post-birth abortions are ‘not real.' Pro-life groups beg to differ.

Salt Lake City-based obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr. <a href="https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0168735&name=david-k-turok" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Turok</a>, who is also an associate professor at the University of Utah Health, recently wrote an <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/08/david-turok-trust-people/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">op-ed</a> in The Salt Lake Tribune about how people should be trusted when they decide to get an abortion.&nbsp;Turok advocates for abortion, having on his resume one of the nation&#39;s largest<a href="https://abortiondocs.org/abortionists/david-keith-turok/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;abortion providers</a>, Planned Parenthood. &nbsp;It&#39;s unclear whether Turok currently works for Planned Parenthood, but media reports suggest Turok worked at Planned Parenthood as recently as in 2018, and he was listed as the Director of Surgical Services in Planned Parenthood of Utah&#39;s 2012-2013 <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/4213/9896/2457/2012-2013_AnnualReport.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Annual Report</a>.&nbsp;Planned Parenthood of Utah did not respond in time for publication after being asked by Campus Reform if Turok is still employed there.&nbsp;In his op-ed, &nbsp;both his title of professor and his ties to Planned Parenthood were absent. Instead, he is simply described as &ldquo;an obstetrician/gynecologist practicing in Salt Lake City.&quot;Turok suggests that abortion care is &ldquo;extremely safe&rdquo; and that the same techniques are used with miscarriages while expressing concern that Utah politicians are interfering with patient-provider relationships. He asserts that this will also &ldquo;worsen the current state of medical care and jeopardize the future provision of care here because medical providers do not want to practice in such an environment.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13466" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Pro-choice U Utah profs: Abortion tied to academic, financial success]</a>Utah lawmakers Sen. Curt Bramble (R) and Rep. Karianne Lisonbee (R) have been pushing for a <a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/SB0067.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">bill</a>, criticized by Turok, to require &quot;disposition of fetal remains&quot; through cremation or burial.&nbsp;Turok also stated that he may need to &ldquo;coerce&rdquo; a person to view an ultrasound, tell someone who is pregnant with an abusive partner that nobody would be able to provide her abortion care, and that he may even be forced to discuss burial or cremation with someone dealing with a miscarriage. He is concerned that he would not be permitted to honor the individual&rsquo;s freedom to decide.He also <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6629029333874814977/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">shared</a> an <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYMgK0DlkKkam4ED3P4OQ_I4lLNAK3Yar9JkawF8AeszassA/viewform" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">open letter</a> to Utah legislators on his LinkedIn profile urging health care providers in the state to sign and oppose pro-life legislation.&ldquo;During the 2020 legislative session we will likely see the introduction of an abortion ban at 6-weeks, a time before many of our patients even know they are pregnant, as well as forced ultrasound viewing,&rdquo; the open letter stated.&nbsp;The author of the open letter wrote that the legislation presented will bring harm to women and families who will not be &ldquo;able to continue pregnancies&rdquo; and seek to do abortions on their own.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11824" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Utah rep. pulverizes prof who called abortion limit &#39;barbaric&#39;]</a>&ldquo;When 500+ Utah health care workers signed the letter opposing upcoming pro-life bills, many likely did not realize they were signing their name below the Surgical Director of Planned Parenthood of Utah, Dr. David Turok,&rdquo; Vice President of Pro-Life Utah Deanna Holland told Campus Reform.&nbsp;She then stated that Dr. Turok likes to play both sides by using his title of Associate Professor in the University of Utah Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to appear credible in circles where his Planned Parenthood title may be looked down upon.&nbsp;&ldquo;But he unapologetically touts his position at Planned Parenthood in circles where abortion is celebrated. He is the driving force in the killing of Utah babies and also in the training of other doctors in performing this atrocious act,&rdquo; Holland said.&nbsp;Students at the University of Utah had concerns about the professor&rsquo;s stances on the legislation being presented.&nbsp;&ldquo;[Turok] argues that both the child and mother are important, then immediately disregards the life of the child. There are no other cases where we can choose to end a life for convenience, mental well-being or the ever undefined &lsquo;best interest of someone else.&rsquo;&rdquo; Students for Life at the University of Utah told Campus Reform.&nbsp;The group also explained that requiring mothers to view ultrasounds &ldquo;can only reinforce the truth, that [the child] is a life being ended.&rdquo;&ldquo;Nothing quite summarizes what Dr. Turok wrote than the two pregnancies he mentioned, one of which he said received an abortion, that one of those children will get to live out a full natural life and experience a fullness in life. Meanwhile, the other child was viciously deprived of this on the mention of freedom. No one has the freedom to deny a child the life it was supposed to have,&rdquo; the group added.The University of Utah Health Department declined to comment on the matter.Campus Reform also reached out to Turok who did not respond in time for publication.Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/francesanne123" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@Francesanne123</a>

Utah health prof who advocates abortion fails to disclose Planned Parenthood ties

All California State University campuses will now have a &nbsp;special qualification for crimes committed against abortion providers.&nbsp;Any crimes committed against these organizations or individuals will now be billed as &lsquo;reproductive rights crimes&rdquo; by all California State University Police Departments. According to Cal State-Long Beach student newspaper <a href="https://daily49er.com/news/2020/02/09/reproductive-rights-crimes-to-become-upd-crime-classification/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">The Daily 49er</a>,&nbsp;the University police will begin to classify these specific crimes in response to a new California law, Senate Bill 24.<a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB24" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Senate Bill 24</a> mandates that all California State University campuses provide access to abortion via medication which will become <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13862" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">available to students in 2023</a>. The bill was signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13978" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: University abortion course taught by woman identified as PP employee discussing selling fetal tissue in sting video]</a>In concert with providing mandated access to abortion medication in 2023, University police will begin classifying crimes against abortion providers on campus as &ldquo;reproductive rights crimes.&quot; As of right now, even though violence or other crimes might have been or currently are being committed, the crimes are not considered to be more egregious for being committed against an abortion provider.&ldquo;In order to qualify as a reproductive rights crime, it has to be a crime that occurs against a facility or health care provider who is providing reproductive rights services,&rdquo; communications supervisor for the University Police Department &nbsp;Greg Pascal, told The Daily 49er. &ldquo;And because the university did not provide those services [and] once the health center starts providing those, then it&rsquo;s a possibility,&rdquo; he added.&ldquo;Each California State University campus police department is dedicated to maintaining a safe environment for all students and to enforcing all state and federal laws,&quot; <a href="https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/administration/ura/Pages/about-our-staff.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Director of Public Affairs Toni Molle</a> for California State University told Campus Reform. &ldquo;The classification regarding &ldquo;reproductive rights crimes&rdquo; did not originate from any of CSU&rsquo;s University Police Departments.&rdquo;Anti-reproductive rights crimes have been on the <a href="https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_agencies/100/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">State of California&rsquo;s books</a> since January 1, 2002. These crimes are, according to the California law, defined as, &ldquo;a crime committed partly or wholly because the victim is a reproductive health services client, provider, or assistant&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp;The law also bans the intimidation of any of the aforementioned individuals involved with the abortion process.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14258" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Students support abortions up to birth]</a>&ldquo;Myself or any members of the groups wouldn&rsquo;t condone those actions,&rdquo; Rachel Haering, secretary for the <a href="http://beachnewman.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Catholic Newman Club</a> at CSU-Long Beach said. &ldquo;That isn&rsquo;t the way to have a productive dialogue.&rdquo;One part of the California Senate Bill that has students concerned is the financial component of providing abortions on campus.&nbsp;&ldquo;All the bill says is they&rsquo;re not requiring student fees to be used, but nothing prohibits it down the line,&rdquo; Haering said.&nbsp;According to The Daily 49er, Student Senator Raquelle Hafen expressed her concern that SB 24 likely wouldn&rsquo;t be able to provide the financial support saying, &ldquo;financial responsibility would likely fall on the students, contributing to the ever-increasing price of higher education.&rdquo;Haering, a fourth-year student at Cal State Long Beach, told Campus Reform that she is worried about the &quot;vagueness&quot; of the definition for such a crime and if it &quot;could also be used to justify discouraging activities like the peaceful protest of on-campus abortions or the distribution of pro-life literature.&quot;&quot;This would stifle possibilities for dialogue as well as violate free speech principles. It&#39;s also unclear whether or not this classification will be skewed in favor of the abortion agenda,&quot; Haering said. &quot;For example, there have been several cases within the last 10 years where husbands or boyfriends have slipped mifepristone and misoprostol, the same abortifacient drugs that will be offered on campus, into women&#39;s food or drink and induced the abortion of their unborn child without their consent. Will these forced abortions be classified and reported as &#39;reproductive rights crimes&#39; as well?&quot;Haering says that while she understands the desire of the police to take precautions, she and fellow pro-life students on campus &quot;vehemently&quot; oppose violence against anybody &quot;in the name of opposing abortion.&quot;&nbsp;&quot;However, the UPD&#39;s anticipation that the bill &#39;won&#39;t go over quietly,&quot; to quote communication supervisor Greg Pascal, plays on the false assumption that pro-lifers as a whole are violent, intolerant fanatics,&quot; she added. &quot;This type of polarization only widens the divide between those who identify as pro-life and those who identify as pro-choice and makes productive dialogue more difficult.&quot; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AlexTokie" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AlexTokie</a>

Cal State schools give special treatment to crimes against abortion providers

A pro-life Robert Morris University student alleged that a pro-abortion activist confronted her at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. and threatened to &quot;slit&quot; her throat.&nbsp;Selene Cerankowsky, a junior at Robert Morris and president of her school&rsquo;s chapter of Students for Life of America, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/27/exclusive-i-will-fin-slit-your-throat-protester-threatened-girl-at-march-for-life-student-says/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">claims</a> that at the end of the march, a protester wearing a black hoodie and white pants with &ldquo;blood on the crotch area&rdquo; confronted her, standing only three inches away from her face. She suspected the student was part of one of the pro-choice groups that were on Capitol Hill protesting the March for Life.&nbsp;Campus Reform has not independently confirmed the student&#39;s account. Campus Reform contacted the United States Capitol Police, which referred the inquiry to the U.S. Supreme Court Police. The Supreme Court Police did not respond to Campus Reform in time for publication.&nbsp;Cerankowsky told The Daily Caller&nbsp;that the protester <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/01/24/students-for-life-of-america-student-threatened-slit-your-throat/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">told&nbsp;</a>her to &ldquo;back up or I will fucking slit your throat.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;So I said, &lsquo;did you really just say that?&rsquo;&rdquo; Cerankowsky <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/27/exclusive-i-will-fin-slit-your-throat-protester-threatened-girl-at-march-for-life-student-says/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">said</a>.&nbsp;Cerankowsky says the protester replied, &ldquo;I swear to God, back up. Back up.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14258" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Students support abortions up to birth]</a>The junior at Robert Morris <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2020/01/24/students-for-life-of-america-student-threatened-slit-your-throat/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">said</a> that she refused to back down even though she &ldquo;felt a little fearful&rdquo;.&nbsp;&ldquo;If we make a habit of that, the pro-choice bullies will know to keep employing that tactic.&rdquo;&nbsp;Cerankowsky reported the incident to Students for Life of America Regional Coordinator Stephanie Stone, who reported it to the police.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">&nbsp;The individual was reportedly later seen being arrested.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14271" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: VIDEO: Eduardo Neret commends Trump for &lsquo;courageous&rsquo; appearance at March for Life]</a>President of Students for Life of America Kristan Hawkins told Campus Reform the &ldquo;violence of the abortion industry&rdquo; must be held accountable.&nbsp;&rdquo;At Students for Life of America, we are taking stronger steps to protect our staff and students who boldly go to their campuses, communities, and legislatures to say that the human rights issue of our day, abortion, must be addressed. We don&#39;t take this trend toward violence lightly,&rdquo; Hawkins said.&ldquo;I joined Selene and my staff at the Supreme Court right after the incident to check on their safety and to take my place on the front lines of this struggle to protect both mother and preborn infants from a predatory, violent abortion industry. But we will not be silent. We will keep fighting for those who don&#39;t have a voice,&rdquo; Hawkins added.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14101" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: New York Dem lawmaker pushes bill requiring colleges to offer &#39;free&#39; abortions]</a>Hawkins also weighed in on how &ldquo;desperate&rdquo; the pro-choice movement has become in America, <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2020/01/27/feminist-arrested-after-threatening-pro-life-student-at-march-for-life-i-will-f-slit-your-throat/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">stating</a> that protestors &ldquo;poured water into the SFLA megaphone&rdquo;.&nbsp;&ldquo;The pro-choice movement is becoming increasingly desperate as abortion is being limited in most states across the country, and so the violence of abortion against people in the womb is now also becoming acts and threats of violence against peaceful pro-life people who care about them,&rdquo; she added.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/corkery_mrose" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;@corkery_mrose</a>

Cerankowsky said the protester was later seen being led away in handcuffs.

'I will f**king slit your throat': Student alleges pro-abortion activist threatened her at March for Life

This year marks the 47th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which held that the U.S. Constitution gives women the option of whether to have an abortion.&nbsp;For decades since, pro-life Americans have descended on Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life, and this year was no different.&nbsp;Campus Reform&#39;s Cabot Phillips went to this year&#39;s March for Life to ask attendees there what the most common misconceptions of pro-life individuals are and why they oppose abortion. &nbsp;Here are some of their comments:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14271" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: VIDEO: Eduardo Neret commends Trump for &lsquo;courageous&rsquo; appearance at March for Life]</a><ul><li>&quot;It&#39;s nice to see a bunch of Christians and non-Christians all coming together to fight for the cause of life.&quot;</li><li>&quot;The left likes to claim to be the party of science when in reality the science is that life does begin at conception.&quot;</li><li>&quot;I think it&#39;s very important that we make sure that all human lives are protected, especially the most vulnerable among us. Who&#39;s more vulnerable than babies, right?&quot;</li><li>&quot;In many of the same ways that we look back and regret not having something about some of the worst atrocities of our time, be it the Holocaust, be it American child slavery, I think time will bear that this is a stain on both our nation&#39;s conscience and our individual conscience if we say nothing and do nothing.&quot;</li><li>&quot;You shouldn&#39;t just get to kill another human being just because it might be inconvenient to you.&quot;&nbsp;</li><li>&quot;They like to say it&#39;s just an old white man Christian thing but we see there&#39;s a multitude of younger people, a multitude of women...&quot;</li><li>&quot;One person&#39;s recklessness shouldn&#39;t have to cause another person&#39;s life to end.&quot;</li></ul>Watch the full video to hear the rest of their answers and to hear the above answers in context.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13680" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Pro-life org doesn&#39;t buy survey showing that young Americans, college grads tend to favor abortion]</a><center><iframe width="950" height="666" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbxCoDsyEzo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> Follow the author of this article on Facebook:&nbsp;<a href="http://facebook.com/JonStreetDC" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JonStreetDC&nbsp;</a>and Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/JonStreet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JonStreet</a>

Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips went to the annual March for Life to ask attendees why they're pro-life.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: March for Life attendees explain why they oppose abortion 

Ahead of the national March for Life, Campus Reform&rsquo;s Eduardo Neret went to George Washington University in Washington D.C. to ask students whether they support women having abortions in the third trimester.&nbsp;Most students defended late-term abortions, citing a woman&rsquo;s right to choose whether to have an abortion.&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a woman&rsquo;s body to decide what she wants...if she wants to do it, then that&rsquo;s up to her,&rdquo; one student responded.When Neret pressed the student to see if that included abortions in the ninth month, the student maintained their position, saying &ldquo;it should be left to her choice.&rdquo;&nbsp;WATCH:<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13811" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Pro-life group warns Calif. universities after lawmakers pass abortion bill: &#39;You will get sued&#39;]</a> <center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8YzZZ9lV6dg" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" width="950" height="666" frameborder="0"></iframe></center> &ldquo;I think that if they feel [a third trimester abortion is] the right decision...it&rsquo;s their body,&rdquo; another student justified.&nbsp;Neret also asked students if there should be &ldquo;any limits&rdquo; on abortion.&nbsp;&ldquo;Is there a month that would be too far,&rdquo; he asked.&nbsp;&ldquo;If someone doesn&rsquo;t want a child or doesn&rsquo;t want to go through with a pregnancy, they should be able to opt-out,&rdquo; one student responded.&nbsp;&ldquo;Especially also because [women] can&rsquo;t take time off work, oftentimes they don&rsquo;t have the opportunity [to get an abortion] in the first two trimesters,&rdquo; another student said.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13978" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: University abortion course taught by woman identified as PP employee discussing selling fetal tissue in sting video]</a>Neret then asked the students if taxpayers should pay for abortions. Many students said the taxpayers should pay for abortions because it is a &quot;health service.&quot;&ldquo;[Abortion] should be considered a health service that everyone should have the right to,&rdquo; a different student argued.Most students also said they did not believe an unborn child is a human life. Some seemed surprised and stumped when Neret questioned why double homicide laws recognize the unborn in cases of murder of pregnant women.&nbsp;Watch the full video above...Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/eduneret?lang=en" style="text-decoration:none;">@eduneret</a>

Campus Reform went to George Washington University to ask students if they support abortions in the third trimester.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Students support abortions up to birth

A Tenessee Christian university has chosen to stand behind its student government in its denial of official student group status to a new pro-life student group, even though the university says that it holds pro-life values itself.The Bethel Student Senate reached the decision that the proposed chapter of Students for Life at Bethel University would not make the university a &ldquo;better&rdquo; place. &nbsp;The Senate is reportedly supposed to decide the sponsoring of clubs based on whether Bethel University would be a better place with this organization.&nbsp;The Student Senate currently sponsors 45 clubs, sports clubs, and advocacy groups.Students for Life is a student advocacy group with a <a href="https://www.studentsforlife.org/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">clearly stated mission</a>: &ldquo;We will abolish abortion.&rdquo; The group says it also exists &quot;to transform culture by helping young people make abortion unthinkable and obsolete on their campus, in their community, and in the nation.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13978" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: University abortion course taught by woman identified as PP employee discussing selling fetal tissue in sting video]</a>Bethel University issued a <a href="https://www.bethel.edu/news/articles/2019/november/students-for-life" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">statement</a> after the decision, responding to &ldquo;concern&rdquo; from the community. The statement reiterated Bethel&rsquo;s policy of letting student government have full control over the approval of student groups.&ldquo;Some have asked why Bethel&rsquo;s administration doesn&rsquo;t intervene in situations like this. In fact, we do, but in a way that honors the living/learning community we foster at Bethel,&rdquo; the university said, adding that &ldquo;learning and personal development can be a messy process.&rdquo;The school emphasized its goal of creating &ldquo;a safe space&rdquo; for students &ldquo;to think critically, learn, explore, and navigate the results of their decisions.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14101" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: New York Dem lawmaker pushes bill requiring colleges to offer &#39;free&#39; abortions]</a>The university defended itself by explaining that &ldquo;student life staff are working with student senators to explore the nuances of this decision,&rdquo; and that the pro-life group is &ldquo;working to amend and resubmit their proposal.&rdquo;&ldquo;We hold to the values outlined in our Covenant for Life Together to guide our discussions about sensitive issues of life and choice. We believe that life is sacred and all people have worth because they are created in God&rsquo;s image. We do not support abortion and maintain an attitude of love, forgiveness, and healing toward those immediately involved in decisions regarding this issue,&rdquo; the university said.Students for Life Action executive director Matt Lamb said in a statement to Campus Reform: &quot;We are disappointed in the university&#39;s decision not to intervene, but we are confident that they will eventually reverse the decision next semester and approve the Students for Life group.&quot;

Christian univ. says it does 'not support abortion'...but rejects pro-life group

A New York State lawmaker introduced a bill that would require public colleges in the state to offer free abortion services to students, just weeks after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a similar bill into law in that state.&nbsp;In the New York State Assembly, Democrat Assemblyman Harvey Epstein introduced a bill stating that &ldquo;each public college student health center shall make available to all students abortion by medication techniques onsite. This service shall be provided by medical professionals on staff at such student health centers or by a third party who has contracted with a university to provide such medical services.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13862" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Calif. Gov. signs law requiring colleges to offer &#39;free&#39; abortions]</a>Abortion &ldquo;by medication&quot; would be the method provided in public colleges. This refers to the abortion pill, which can be taken within the first ten weeks of pregnancy. There are two pills that need to be taken for a medication abortion. The first pill is Mifepristone, which terminates the pregnancy by depriving the baby of the necessary nutrients. The second pill is misoprostol, which expels the unborn baby out of the uterus.&nbsp;Epstein suggested the bill because he said students should not have to miss classes simply to get an abortion. Not only does Epstein plan to force the leftist propaganda on women in colleges, but he also plans to force this propaganda on health care workers.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13811" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Pro-life group warns Calif. universities after lawmakers pass abortion bill: &#39;You will get sued&#39;]</a>Campus Reform reached out to different leaders and student groups about this bill.Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told Campus Reform, &ldquo;The New York legislation, like the California legislation, will put women in harm&rsquo;s way. Women deserve better than dangerous toilet-bowl abortions; women deserve real help, like the help we [Students for Life] provide through our Pregnant on Campus Initiative.&rdquo;Bobby Miller from the College Republicans at NYU, added, &ldquo;This bill is an absolute travesty. Modern medical innovation has torpedoed the left&rsquo;s narrative that a fetus isn&rsquo;t an independent being. I am worried college campuses in NYS will become the latest in a long line of abortion victims. Sadly, the New York State legislators have repeatedly chosen to disregard scientific facts to forward their radical agenda.&rdquo;Just days before Newsom signed the California bill into law, Campus Reform Managing Editor Jon Street sat down with Students for Life Action executive director Matt Lamb. Lamb said that the bill, which is now law in the Golden State, would result in universities being sued.&nbsp;&quot;The [campus] health center workers are not trained on how to do this [perform abortions], so we&#39;ve warned the schools, you&#39;re putting yourselves at risk. You will get sued and the other thing is conscience rights. So students being forced to pay for it, taxpayers, but also health workers,&quot; Lamb said. &quot;So you assume you&#39;re a nurse and you apply to work at a health center at a school...they didn&#39;t sign up to work an abortion mill,&quot; he added. <center><iframe width="950" height="666" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vO55eYodaRw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center>

New York proposed a bill that will force all public colleges to give free abortions.

New York Dem lawmaker pushes bill requiring colleges to offer 'free' abortions

A course geared toward practicing clinicians at the University of Houston meant to &quot;help end abortion stigma&quot; was taught by two employees of a notorious Planned Parenthood location, one of whom has previously been identified as a Planned Parenthood employee caught on camera discussing the sale of fetal body parts.Campus Reform spoke to the Houston Coalition for Life, which circulated a&nbsp;<a href="http://houstoncoalition.org/events/petition-to-cancel-the-planned-parenthood-abortion-class-at-university-of-houston" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">petition</a> to the university to cancel the one day course, which took place on Nov. 1. The coalition told Campus Reform that it contacted the university about the petition on Oct. 28 and planned to visit the campus to meet with administrators the following day.&nbsp;The group claimed to have obtained more than 1,000 online signatures and more than 200 in-person petition signatures.The course listing <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180605154852/http://www.uh.edu:80/socialwork/alumni/ce/descriptions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">disappeared</a> from the university website on Oct 29. When Campus Reform asked the university why it had removed the course listing, University of Houston Executive Director of Media Relations Shawn Elyse Lindsey told Campus Reform that the course had been removed in error when registration for the course closed and that it has now been <a href="https://www.uh.edu/socialwork/alumni/ce/descriptions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">reinstated</a> on the website. When Campus Reform first viewed the active course listing, registration for the course had already been closed.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13264" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student proposes not funding abortions with student fees...and faces brutal backlash]</a>&ldquo;UH offers continuing education courses to professionals across disciplines that are not part of or required under University curricula. The courses, which are purely optional, are taught by instructors who span a wide array of backgrounds, associations and experiences, some of whom are unaffiliated with UH,&rdquo; Lindsey said, adding &ldquo;Academic freedom is a cornerstone of American higher education. American universities are forums for expression, discussion and debate, and therefore do not discourage the discussion of divisive topics because the positions or affiliations of those involved may be objectionable to some audiences.&rdquo;&ldquo;When registration closed, the CE course was temporarily removed from the Graduate College of Social Work professional continuing education webpage in error,&rdquo; Lindsey claimed, confirming that &ldquo;The course is scheduled and is listed online&rdquo; and had &ldquo;been moved to another location due to security concerns.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11905" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Emory University hosts &lsquo;abortion as a moral good&rsquo; lecture]</a>The course was taught by two Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast employees, one of whom has been previously identified as one of the individuals in a 2015 viral undercover sting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egGUEvY7CEg&feature=youtu.be&has_verified=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">video</a> showing Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast employees discussing the selling of fetal body parts.A woman who has been<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2015/08/04/center-for-medical-progress-video-planned-parenthood/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;identified</a> by multiple media outlets as Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Ambulatory Surgery Center Director Tram Nguyen can be seen in the viral sting video discussing how easy eyeballs are to find within abortive remains, saying that eyeballs or &quot;orbits&quot; are &quot;so easy [to find], like 95 percent of the time. &hellip; Yes, they come out, like firmer.&quot;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/13978/tram.png" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&ldquo;This comes out, like I said, the organs come out really well,&rdquo; she says as she and who she believes is a potential tissue buyer observe the remains of aborted twins. &ldquo;See, you can see all the intestines, pretty much all of it&rsquo;s intact.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13257" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Berkeley law dean: Alabama abortion ban &lsquo;clearly unconstitutional&rsquo;]</a>The course description lists Tram Nguyen as one of the course instructors, boasting about Nguyen&#39;s &quot;years on the front lines&quot; and explaining that &quot;for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Tram provides the leadership, direction and administration of the ambulatory surgical center&rsquo;s activities to ensure quality patient care, compliance with state and national regulatory and accreditation standards. She is often sought out for her expertise and knowledge in regulatory policies surrounding abortion in Texas.&quot;The Houston Coalition for Life told Campus Reform that it felt compelled to circulate the petition not only because of its general concerns about abortion but also because of issues related to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast&#39;s facility particularly, claiming that there have been concerns for years over the location&#39;s operational procedures and accusations of profiting from fetal remains.The University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work is offering students four &quot;Continuing Education Units&quot; for attending the one day course titled &quot;Abortion: A Person&#39;s Right to Choose, which is described as meant to &quot;educate practicing clinicians on providing unbiased pregnancy options counseling and resources,&quot; and &quot;help develop skills to help the client exercise the right to choose.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13811" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Pro-life group warns Calif. universities after lawmakers pass abortion bill: &#39;You will get sued&#39;]</a>In addition to how to &quot;help end abortion stigma,&quot; learning outcomes for the course include understanding &quot;the importance of asking clients their preferred pronouns, affirming your understanding that not everyone who has a uterus identifies as a woman,&quot; and understanding &quot;the history of abortion rights and access, including current Texas laws regarding abortion care.&quot;In the 2015 video, the woman who answers to &ldquo;Tram&rdquo; in the video expresses confusion at the notion that selling or donating fetal tissue may be illegal.&nbsp;&ldquo;Any idea why the other affiliates in Texas think it&rsquo;s illegal?&rdquo; another employee asks her.&ldquo;...really?&rdquo; she answers. <center>&nbsp;<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/egGUEvY7CEg?start=626" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></center> The university describes the course as &quot;addressing this deeply controversial issue at a time when legislatures nationwide have been passing extreme abortion laws with the goal of having the Supreme Court reconsider Roe v. Wade,&quot; which it claims would &quot;take away the rights of individuals to decide for themselves how to exercise their reproductive rights.&quot;&quot;This course appears to be a one-sided pro-abortion event. Ironically, the abortion industry fights real choices, such as those offered by maternity homes and pregnancy resource centers, even trying [to] force them to promote abortion, as we saw in California,&rdquo; Director of Communications for Students for Life of America Matt Lamb told Campus Reform.&ldquo;Meanwhile, the pro-life movement advocates for real options on campus, like<a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2019/10/23/students-for-life-of-america-launches-nationwide-campaign-to-educate-pregnant-and-parenting-students-about-their-title-ix-rights/" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;affirming the rights of pregnant and parenting students</a>, instead of stigmatizing pregnancy,&rdquo; Lamb added.Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/home" style="text-decoration:none;">@celinedryan</a>

One of the instructors for the course has previously been identified as having appeared in a 2015 viral sting video showing Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast employees discussing the selling of post-abortive body parts.

University abortion course taught by woman identified as PP employee discussing selling fetal tissue in sting video 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed a bill requiring all University of California and California State University campuses to offer chemical abortion to students for free.&nbsp;Senate Bill 24 &ndash; the &ldquo;College Student Right to Access Act&rdquo; &ndash; <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB24" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">passed</a> the California Legislature in September, giving Newsom about one month to either sign or veto the bill. Prior to Friday, when Newsom signed the bill into law, every indicator was that he would sign it.&nbsp;According to the most recent enrollment data, 481,210 students are enrolled at CSU and 280,380 students are enrolled on UC campuses- a total of 761,590 students. Of those, 272,779 females were enrolled at CSU schools while 147,131 female students were enrolled at UC schools- a total of 419,910 students who would be covered by the new law.California Campus Correspondent Fiona Moriarty-McLaughlin asked students at UC-Santa Barbara their thoughts.&nbsp;WATCH:&nbsp;<center><iframe width="950" height="666" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ybOFMMiZzFw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13264" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Student proposes not funding abortions with student fees...and faces brutal backlash]</a>&ldquo;As other states and the federal government go backward, restricting reproductive freedom, in California we are moving forward, expanding access and reaffirming a woman&rsquo;s right [to]choose. We&rsquo;re removing barriers to reproductive health &ndash; increasing access on college campuses and using technology to modernize how patients interact with providers,&quot; <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/11/governor-gavin-newsom-signs-reproductive-freedom-legislation-including-bill-to-expand-access-to-care-on-college-campuses/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Newsom said</a> in a news release.&nbsp;Previously, former California <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article219003280.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed</a> a similar bill. California state Sen. Connie Leyva introduced the bill that Newsom signed.&ldquo;In a time when states across our country are rolling back women&rsquo;s health care and access to abortion, California continues to lead the nation to protect every individual&rsquo;s right to choose,&rdquo; <a href="https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/news/2019-09-13-leyva-bill-ensuring-college-student-access-medication-abortion-heads-governor%E2%80%99s-desk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Leyva said</a>. &ldquo;SB 24 reaffirms the right of every college student to access abortion. By ensuring that abortion care is available on campus, college students will not have to choose between delaying important medical care or having to travel long distances or miss classes or work.&rdquo;&ldquo;In the absence of federal leadership on this issue, states must step up and put in place their own protections &ndash; both in statute and in their state constitutions, and through the expansion of family planning and education &ndash; to defend every American&#39;s right to reproductive freedom,&quot; <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-abortion-California-laws-Alabama-Roe-13914531.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Newsom wrote</a> alongside Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown in a May 2019 letter. &quot;Roe is settled law, but newly enacted and clearly unconstitutional laws in a handful of states compel our states to act now to reaffirm longstanding commitments to safeguard the fundamental rights of women.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11939" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Pro-life sign ripped off frame at UCLA]</a>Pro-life groups on California&#39;s campuses voiced their disapproval. Among those are Students for Life Action Executive Director Matt Lamb, who recently sent a warning to UC and CSU campuses, saying the new law could mean &quot; you will get sued.&quot;WATCH: <center><iframe width="950" height="666" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vO55eYodaRw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center>Daniel Frise, co-president of Students for Life at UC Berkeley said there is no need for SB 24 in the UC and CSU systems.&ldquo;I am deeply disappointed that public universities in California may use financial resources and tuition money to fund abortions on campuses,&rdquo; Frise told Campus Reform. &ldquo;I think the bill will cause a decline in the state of higher education. Rather than providing abortions to pregnant students, schools should be providing mothers the support and resources necessary for them to care for their child during pregnancy and after birth. Women are capable of being mothers and students &ndash; they shouldn&rsquo;t have to choose between one or the other.&rdquo;Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America shed light on the bipartisan agreement against abortion.&ldquo;One thing pro-life and pro-choice people have in common is that they don&#39;t want their tax dollars going to pay for abortions,&rdquo; Hawkins said. &ldquo;It&#39;s an area of bi-partisan agreement, and that&#39;s something to keep in mind in this election cycle. The state of California has sent a radical proposal to the desk of the Governor, pushing chemical abortion pills on college and university campuses. This will put women&#39;s lives at risk, and put the taxpayers and schools at risk as people&#39;s conscience rights are violated when forced to participate with the abortion industry.&rdquo;Jessica Manzo, a student at Sacramento State University said Newsom advocated for Newsom to veto the chemical abortion bill.&ldquo;The legislation would make university administrations further complicit in the violent exploitation of university women that has been brought to light by the &lsquo;Me-Too&rsquo; movement,&rdquo; Manzo of <a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/senate-bill-24/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">CalMatters</a> said. &ldquo;Senate Bill 24 is not about health care. It is an example of partisan posturing, consolidating the state&rsquo;s aversion to any restrictions of abortion.&rdquo;Both the Regents of the University of California and California State University Chancellor&#39;s Office declined to comment on SB 24.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/factswithfiona" style="text-decoration:none;">@factswithfiona</a>

Calif. Gov. signs law requiring colleges to offer 'free' abortions

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is expected to sign a bill that would require public colleges in the state to offer abortion pills for students who are pregnant up to ten weeks.&nbsp;The state legislature passed the bill in September. Newsom has until October 13 to sign it into law, the Sacramento Bee <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article235074852.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a>. &nbsp;But pro-life advocates, like Students for Life Action executive director Matt Lamb, are warning politicians and universities of the potential fallout.Lamb spoke with Campus Reform Managing Editor Jon Street about the bill, as well as what&#39;s on Students for Life&#39;s radar this school year.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13783" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood event claims fetuses experiencing pain is a &lsquo;misconception&rsquo;]</a>WATCH:<center><iframe width="950" height="666" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vO55eYodaRw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center>&nbsp;Lamb said the bill, if signed into law, &quot;poses a huge liability&quot; for public universities, warning the institutions &quot;you will get sued.&quot;&nbsp;&quot;From a fiscal level, it poses a huge liability to the school because how it works is you take [the abortion pills], and it basically induces a miscarriage but it&#39;s abortion because you&#39;re purposefully causing the death of your pre-born baby and you pretty much just have to wait in a bathroom or your dorm room until the baby essentially dies and you pass and deliver it....that&#39;s a huge liability,&quot; Lamb said.&nbsp;Lamb went on to explain why he sees the requirement imposed under the potential new law as a risk.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11905" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Emory University hosts &lsquo;abortion as a moral good&rsquo; lecture]</a>&quot;The health center workers are not trained on how to do this, so we&#39;ve warned the schools, you&#39;re putting yourselves at risk. You will get sued and the other thing is conscience rights. So students being forced to pay for it, taxpayers, but also health workers.&quot;&nbsp;&quot;So you assume you&#39;re a nurse and you apply to work at a health center at a school...they didn&#39;t sign up to work an abortion mill,&quot; Lamb said.California state Sen. Connie Layva, who introduced the bill that now awaits the governor&#39;s signature, <a href="https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/news/2019-09-13-leyva-bill-ensuring-college-student-access-medication-abortion-heads-governor%E2%80%99s-desk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">released a statement</a> following the legislature&#39;s passage of the bill, saying, &quot;by ensuring that abortion care is available on campus, college students will not have to choose between delaying important medical care or having to travel long distances or miss classes or work.&quot;&quot;I thank the Governor for inviting women from conservative states seeking abortions to come to California to access their right to abortion care. &nbsp;I also appreciate Governor Newsom&rsquo;s public declaration of support last year for SB 320&mdash;the previous version of SB 24&mdash;and am hopeful that he will continue to prioritize the rights of all Californians seeking abortion care, including those attending California&rsquo;s public university campuses,&quot; Layva added.&nbsp;California&#39;s previous governor, Jerry Brown, declined to sign similar legislation because &ldquo;services required by this bill are widely available off-campus.&quot; Therefore, he concluded, &quot;this bill is not necessary.&quot;Follow the author of this article on Facebook:&nbsp;<a href="http://facebook.com/JonStreetDC" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JonStreetDC</a>&nbsp;and Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/JonStreet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JonStreet</a>

Students for Life Action Executive Director Matt Lamb warned universities that they "will get sued" over a bill recently passed by the state legislature.

Pro-life group warns Calif. universities after lawmakers pass abortion bill: 'You will get sued'

Washington State University defended a pro-life display deemed objectionable by some students, citing free speech.The Center for Bioethical Reform (CBR), which travels around the nation with a display apparently featuring aborted fetuses, came to WSU in September, <a href="https://www.khq.com/news/abortion-demonstration-stirs-controversy-on-wsu-campus/article_0c175822-d98e-11e9-863d-2ba867f59d9f.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">KHQ</a> reported. CBR is a pro-life group that states on its <a href="https://www.abortionno.org/what-we-do/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">website</a> that it is working toward establishing &ldquo;prenatal justice and the right to life for the unborn.&rdquo; The group does so by publicly displaying images of abortion procedures, stating that &ldquo;until abortion is seen, it will never be understood.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8764" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: CSUSM issues warning about &#39;graphic anti-abortion display&#39;]</a>CBR&rsquo;s use of <a href="https://twitter.com/SassySydney_/status/1173657553202376704?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">detailed imagery</a> was criticized by some, including students at WSU.&quot;I understand this is a public school and they have a first amendment right,&quot; WSU student Cortney Gosset told KHQ. &ldquo;But these signs are so graphic. I don&#39;t think they&#39;re aware of how they&#39;re impacting people. We&#39;re just out here to be there for women who may need it right now.&quot;<script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>However, WSU refused to cancel or otherwise hinder CBR&rsquo;s event on the grounds that to do so would be a violation of the First Amendment.&quot;As an institution of higher learning, Washington State University prides itself on being a place where differing points of view can be heard and where we can all learn from each other&#39;s perspectives, the school said, according to KHQ. &ldquo;The United States Supreme Court strongly supports this vision writing that colleges and universities play a critical role in exposing students to the &lsquo;marketplace of ideas&rsquo; and instructing colleges and universities to be particularly vigilant in protecting the First Amendment free speech rights of individuals, regardless of the content of their speech. We take this responsibility very seriously, as it is at the core of our American form of government.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12070" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: WSU teaches students how to handle College Republicans at bias training]</a>Campus Reform reached out to WSU&rsquo;s Students for Life chapter for comment regarding CBR&rsquo;s event, as well as the university&rsquo;s handling of the situation.&ldquo;The event incited many negative responses, yet many people were touched and had their hearts changed by the event,&rdquo; the group, which suggested it did not invite CBR due to wanting to have a different image, told Campus Reform. &ldquo;Furthermore, the CBR group was very respectful and followed all University and Freedom of Speech rules. In regards to Washington State University&#39;s response, they did a good job of responding without taking a side but emphasizing that CBR could be there because of their First Amendment freedom of speech right. We look forward to continuing the pro-life movement on our campus and working to change hearts and minds on the issue of abortion.&quot;Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/bryanbabb316?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@bryanbabb316</a>

WSU defends pro-life group's ‘graphic’ abortion display, citing First Amendment

A new survey shows that both young Americans and college-educated Americans favor legalizing abortion more than older Americans and those who have not graduated from college.The Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">survey</a>, released in late August, found that 70 percent of Americans between the ages of 18-29 say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 64 percent of adults aged 30-49 hold the same belief. Only 54 percent and 55 percent of older Americans between 50-64 and 65 and up hold the same pro-choice views, respectively.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13538" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: SURVEY: Young Americans trust college profs more than military, police, religious leaders]</a>Virtually the same disparities were found when considering education levels, with 70 percent of college graduates and 60 percent of those with some college education claiming that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. The percentage of those who did not attend college and say abortion should be legal in all or most cases is 54 percent.&nbsp;Overall, in 2019, the survey found that 61 percent of the total adult population believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases -- a sharp 14 percent increase from the 47 percent total that held the same view ten years ago in 2009.&ldquo;Morality isn&rsquo;t determined by polling numbers,&rdquo; Matt Lamb, communications director for Students for Life, told Campus Reform.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13279" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Survey: Over 75 percent of college students support legal abortion]</a>Lamb went on to note the problems associated with abortion polling.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s one of the main flaws in most abortion polling. They use vague language and they don&rsquo;t define their terms,&rdquo; he stated. &ldquo;I would be very skeptical of the poll results.&rdquo;As previously <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13552" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">reported</a> by Campus Reform, college-educated whites are more likely to say Trump is racist than non-college educated ones.&nbsp;Another recent <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13538" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">survey</a> found that young Americans are more likely to trust college professors than other prominent authority figures including the military, police officers, and religious leaders.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ethanycai?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@ethanycai</a>

Pro-life org doesn't buy survey showing that young Americans, college grads tend to favor abortion

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared Wednesday that the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) violated the law by allegedly requiring a nurse to perform an abortion.&nbsp;The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) conducted a &ldquo;thorough investigation&rdquo; and stated that the policy requirement discriminates against employees who have explicitly objected to performing abortions for moral or religious reasons by compelling them to do so unless they would like to risk discipline, according to a <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019/08/28/ocr-issues-notice-violation-university-vermont-medical-center-after-it-unlawfully-forced-nurse.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">news release</a>.Since it receives federal funding, OCR also notified UVMMC to adjust its policies to conform with 42 U.S.C. &sect; 300a-7, known as the &ldquo;<a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/civilrights/understanding/ConscienceProtect/42usc300a7.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Church Amendments</a>,&rdquo; or risk action from HHS. UVMMC has 30 days to announce whether it will cooperate with OCR.&nbsp;OCR&rsquo;s investigation stems from a <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/uvmmc-nov-letter-final.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">May 2018</a> &ldquo;conscience and religious discrimination&rdquo; complaint filed by the UVMMC nurse. At the time, OCR claimed it sought information and documents related to the incident from UVMMC, which the hospital refused to supply.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13257" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley law dean: Alabama abortion ban &lsquo;clearly unconstitutional&rsquo;]</a>OCR concluded that not only was the nurse forced to assist in the abortion, but that the nurse had repeatedly objected for many years and that the objections had been previously documented.UVMMC has denied the allegations, and maintains the nurse&rsquo;s claims are false.&nbsp;&ldquo;We do not discriminate against any employees for exercising their rights to opt out of procedures to which they object,&rdquo; Anne Mackin, a UVMMC communications official, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/politics/hhs-notice-of-violation-vermont-nurse-abortion/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">told</a> CNN.&nbsp;In a <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019/08/28/ocr-issues-notice-violation-university-vermont-medical-center-after-it-unlawfully-forced-nurse.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">statement</a>, OCR Director Roger Severino said the UVMMC policies were not only a violation of federal law, but were also &ldquo;unnecessary and wrong.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Forcing medical staff to assist in the taking of human life inflicts a moral injury on them that is not only unnecessary and wrong; it violates longstanding federal law,&rdquo; Severino said. &ldquo;Our investigation has uncovered serious discrimination by UVMMC against nurses and staff who cannot, in good conscience, assist in elective abortions.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11905" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Emory University hosts &lsquo;abortion as a moral good&rsquo; lecture]</a>In a statement to Campus Reform, <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2019/08/28/great-news-hhs-tells-university-of-vermont-to-stop-forcing-nurses-to-participate-in-abortions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Students for Life</a> chief media strategist Kristi Hamrick praised the Trump administration for defending pro-lifers and their right to object from aiding abortions. &nbsp;&quot;The abortion industry has shown their radical commitment to ending life by moving from &#39;choice&#39; to coercion in their policy demands,&rdquo; Hamrick said. &ldquo;The Constitution promises to us all conscience rights, meaning that we should not be forced to act against our beliefs.&rdquo;&ldquo;But for those committed to abortion, forcing others to act in support of their agenda or face fines or job loss or worse is a pattern we again and again,&rdquo; she continued. &ldquo;Whether it&#39;s this nurse in Vermont or the Little Sisters of the Poor, brave people have been targeted by abortion advocates. Students for Life applauds the Trump Administration for standing up for those who don&rsquo;t want to participate in the atrocity of abortion.&quot;&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to UVMMC, but received no response in time for press.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/eduneret" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@eduneret</a>

The University of Vermont Medical Center allegedly required a student nurse to assist with abortions, even after the nurse objected several times.

U Vermont in hot water with HHS after allegedly forcing student nurse to aid with abortion

The University of Utah has released a study suggesting that men who avoid parenthood through their partner&rsquo;s abortion will have a better educational and financial future.Several University of Utah professors conducted the study, according to a July <a href="https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2019/07/abortion-economic-benefit.php?fbclid=IwAR270B_kzuFH52vllDMvupg5397aeNJvC6N9pl_OodI89leEtVFCKl-roBM" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">news release</a> from the school.UU sociology professor Bethany Everett led the <a href="https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(19)30255-1/fulltext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">study</a> and stated that &ldquo;what we found is that women&rsquo;s use of abortion during adolescence increases the likelihood that their male partners will graduate from college.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Given what we know about the links between education and future income, it is likely that the wage gap will widen as these men age, allowing men whose partners reported abortions to continue to reap financial benefits from access to abortion.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7982" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Abortion is nation&#39;s leading cause of death, if counted, study finds]</a>The professors analyzed a sample of men who reported pregnancies before 20 years of age using data from a 1994 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health collection and compared pregnancies that resulted in a live birth or abortion.They found that 5.8 percent of men who reported a baby&rsquo;s birth reported that they had graduated from college and 32.4 percent had some form of post-high school education. Conversely, men who reported an abortion reported a 22.1 percent college graduation rate and a 58.5 percent completion of other post-high school education.&ldquo;Parental age at first birth is an important indicator of educational attainment and economic mobility: teenage parents are less likely to complete high school or college than their peers who postpone childbearing.&rdquo;Pro-Life Utah shared that it was concerned about potential bias in the research, as several of the authors have shared their views on abortion.&nbsp;Pro-Life Utah <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ProLifeUtah/posts/2329815877271151" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">wrote</a> on its Facebook page that study co-author <a href="http://abortiondocs.org/clinic/abortionist/687/david-keith-turok/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">David Turok</a> is a medical director and abortion provider at Planned Parenthood of Utah. Co-author Kyl Myers supported abortion in a Westminster College <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfPnv3WHTUV/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">speech</a> in February 2018. Co-author Jessica Sanders wrote in favor of abortion and called Planned Parenthood a &quot;critical provider of health care&quot; in a recent <a href="https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900078192/guest-opinion-why-utah-will-never-and-should-never-be-abortion-free.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">opinion piece</a> for Deseret News.&nbsp;Everett, whose Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/bethanygeverett?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">bio</a> lists her personal pronouns as &ldquo;she&rdquo; and &ldquo;her,&rdquo; does not appear to have publicly endorsed abortion.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11824" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Utah rep. pulverizes prof who called abortion limit &#39;barbaric&#39;]</a>&ldquo;Look how abortion empowers women,&rdquo; Pro-Life Utah President Mary Taylor told Campus Reform. &ldquo;It encourages men to go on with their life &lsquo;unencumbered,&rsquo; leaving women to cope with the emotional consequences of killing their own baby. We have been sold a pack of lies!&rdquo;She also said that abortion is the most anti-woman thing to happen in the United States.&ldquo;The promise of future income to men is a morally reprehensible argument for the intentional killing of a human being,&rdquo; the group&rsquo;s vice president, Deanna Holland, told <a href="https://fox13now.com/2019/07/10/teen-males-who-avoid-parenthood-through-abortion-have-better-socioeconomic-future-study-says/?fbclid=IwAR0L1ZHjdGywTDyd809eN7iAslEH6PecF5V8iSXmAX1Nlhkr73JLCDSBCbc" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Fox 13</a>. &ldquo;You cannot place a price tag on a life, and no amount of money justifies killing a child.&rdquo;&ldquo;The way [the study] is phrased is clearly encouraging abortion instead of encouraging safe sex and birth control to reduce teen pregnancy,&rdquo; University of Utah student Rachelle Peltier told Campus Reform.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/francesanne123" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@francesanne123</a>

Pro-choice U Utah profs: Abortion tied to academic, financial success

As I walked across the quad recently on my way to a final exam, a fellow student called out to me, cursing at me. It&rsquo;s a greeting I&rsquo;ve become accustomed to hearing even weeks after I introduced a bill in the University of Chicago&#39;s Student Government to restrict our mandatory student fees from funding abortions.All students at the University of Chicago are required to pay a mandatory Student Life Fee as a part of our tuition. These funds are intended for educational, social, cultural and recreational activities. But in May 2017, the Student Government established a new committee as a grant program called The Emergency Fund. This committee is partly funded by the Student Life Fee. And for the 2018-2019 grant application, &quot;all emergencies related to reproductive health (were) automatically considered first priority.&quot;This new mandate initially went unnoticed. Then, about a month ago, a group of students were alerted to this funding reinterpretation and asked me, a Student Government representative, to draft legislation that would keep their Student Life Fees from being used against them in violation of their consciences.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13264" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student proposes not funding abortions with student fees...and faces brutal backlash]</a> <center><iframe width="650" height="366" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7CeBjaIrWXU" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> My bill, which failed to pass, is hardly radical. Although Democratic presidential front-runner&nbsp;Joe Biden caved under pressure last weekover his past support for the measure, the Hyde Amendment&nbsp;&mdash; which prohibits the use of tax money to pay for abortions&nbsp;with three exceptions&nbsp;&mdash; served as a model for my bill and has been federal law for 43 years. It was&nbsp;upheld by the Supreme Court&nbsp;in 1980 and protects the First Amendment rights of the&nbsp;majority of Americans&nbsp;who morally object to financially&nbsp;participating&nbsp;in ending another&rsquo;s life.The Constitution&rsquo;s protection of free speech is about more than just words. It includes protections for a variety of expressive acts, from religious beliefs to financial contributions. When the powers that be coerce people into acts that infringe on their sincerely-held beliefs, this is a serious abuse of authority and a violation of free speech principles. It is the equivalent of being forced to swear an oath or read a statement against your will.First Amendment violations have sprung up across our nation&rsquo;s college campuses, but the focus has been on what can be seen:&nbsp;free speech zones,&nbsp;rescinding speaking invitations,&nbsp;punishment for students voicing&nbsp;contrary opinions, and sometimes even&nbsp;violent attacks. Now, I&rsquo;ve seen first-hand that the threat to our First Amendment goes far deeper.When it comes to&nbsp;mandatory student fees, the University of Chicago isn&rsquo;t alone in forcing students to fund controversial &mdash; often politically-charged &mdash; organizations, programs, and services unrelated to education. This is happening at colleges all over the country.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13269" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UChicago student gov leader: &#39;I received death threats&#39; over pro-life legislation]</a>Michigan State University&#39;s student government used its mandatory student fees to pay for lavish gifts for a banquet; the University of Maryland student government considered (though eventually rejected) a fee to pay for Metro rides in order to build what the student who introduced the measure called a &ldquo;socialist society&rdquo;; and UCLA students are required to pay a quarterly fee to support &ldquo;social justice efforts.&quot;Since I introduced the bill, I have received many emails from Planned Parenthood and the Chicago Abortion Fund thanking me for donations that have been made in my name. Ironically, these donations&nbsp;only accomplish my bill&rsquo;s stated goals by helping to shift the financial burden off the backs of unwilling student participants. It also highlights the obvious: People express their freedom of speech through financial contributions. In this case, their donations were intended to send a message to me&nbsp;that they disapproved of my bill and support an expansive understanding of abortion access.Students shouldn&rsquo;t be forced to surrender their morals just to get an education. The bill I proposed wasn&rsquo;t a campus abortion ban; it simply removed an unnecessary student government&nbsp;subsidy.<div>I call it unnecessary because, according to the chair of the new committee, only 10% of their funds come from the Student Government, including Student Life Fees (the other 90% comes from private donations and fundraising); and although the committee has been operational for more than a year, no student has yet sought funding for an abortion.At this point, it would appear that our student government is intentionally and needlessly dangling a conscience violation over the heads of hundreds of students.The University of Chicago&rsquo;s failure to protect the free expression of pro-life students is a disappointing revelation. And worse, the college has failed in its duty to convey a holistic understanding of the First Amendment to some of America&rsquo;s next generation.This op-ed was originally published by&nbsp;<a href="https://amp.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/06/13/university-student-fees-fund-abortions-column/1418850001/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">USA Today.</a></div>