{"id":254244,"date":"2022-07-25T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/video-shows-medical-students-walking-out-of-their-white-coat-ceremony-before-an-anti-abortion-professor-made-the-keynote-speech"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:13:45","slug":"video-shows-medical-students-walking-out-of-their-white-coat-ceremony-before-an-anti-abortion-professor-made-the-keynote-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/video-shows-medical-students-walking-out-of-their-white-coat-ceremony-before-an-anti-abortion-professor-made-the-keynote-speech","title":{"rendered":"Video shows medical students walking out of their white-coat ceremony before an anti-abortion professor made the keynote speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A still from a video that shows medical students in white coats walking out. Illustration by Insider. Brendan Scorpio\/Insider University of Michigan med students walked out of their white-coat ceremony on Sunday. They protested the choice of Dr. Kristin Collier, an anti-abortion medic, as the keynote speaker. Dozens of students had signed a petition to remove her as the speaker, but the university refused. University of Michigan medical students walked out of their white-coat ceremony on Sunday as an anti-abortion professor was about to give the keynote speech. More than 340 current and incoming students had signed a petition before the ceremony that said Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor at the school, should not be the event&#8217;s keynote speaker, reported The Michigan Daily , a student newspaper. The petition to remove Collier linked to posts in which she described abortion as an act of &#8220;violence directed at my prenatal sisters&#8221; and said that &#8220;God is the maker of our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Michigan students walked out as Dr. Kristin Collier, who had shared anti-abortion views in the past, went to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}