Quote: The case began when Betsy Hansen was censored from speaking at a "Homosexuality and Religion" panel, sponsored by the school and organized by the school's Gay/Straight Alliance during Diversity Week. Hansen requested that she be allowed to invite a pro-life clergyman to sit on the panel to help her express her Catholic views. Her request was refused. A judge has ordered Ann Arbor Public Schools in Detroit, Mi. to pay over $100,000 in attorney fees and costs to the Thomas More Law Centre.

Quote: In December 2005, Arizona State University Students for Life submitted a request to display its pro-life exhibit, a comprehensive display designed by Justice for All. But after attempting to reserve several areas on campus in which to display their information, ASU administration officials told the group it would be restricted to just one location. Then, university officials told the pro-life club it would have to pay two separate fees in order to display their exhibit -- a $50 reservations fee, which the group had not been charged in the past, and a $300 fee to speak on campus. The group was also told it would need to submit a certificate of insurance. ASU Students for Life contacted the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), which sent the school a letter on the club's behalf. After receiving the letter, the university dropped the fee requirements but insisted that the pro-life group obtain insurance in order to display its exhibit, despite the school's lack of a written policy to that effect. The club experienced similar space restrictions and was again required to purchase insurance for a subsequent event in April 2006. ADF litigation counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker believes Arizona State University has singled out ASU Students for Life for discriminatory treatment. The school allows other groups, even some with a reputation for provocative demonstrations, to display on campus without burdening those groups with a lot of fees and restrictions, she notes, and once ASU even permitted PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to erect a display that equated farm animal slaughter with the Holocaust.A Lawsuit has been filed.

Quote: “As a pro-life, Christian conservative, I received death threats in my campus mailbox, was shouted down by students and (once) was even shouted down in class by my own professor,” stated David French the 2005 President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. French now spends much of his time explaining to university general counsels that being “offended” by another’s views is not intimidation – a distinction that might seem obvious but is apparently not so on today’s campuses.

Quote: In 2005 Keith Mason and Jonathan O’Toole, members of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, sued the Colorado School of Mines U.S. District Court claiming a violation of their first amendment rights. Mason and O’Toole asked that the college's “permits” policy be ruled unconstitutional. The case began when a campus police officer told Mason and the group that they needed a permit to protest. Since the group did not have permits to protest on the sidewalk, the police officers told them they would have to leave. Mason said he resisted and was arrested, as was O’Toole, who refused to show the officer his identification. A year later, they decided to settle the case. According to a draft of the settlement provided to the Student Press Law Center by O’Toole, he would get $25,000 if the settlement is finalized.“I’m fairly disappointed in the settlement, but I was/am involved in too many other similar free speech cases at the moment...to even think about appealing this judgment,” O’Toole said in an email. “In any case, the criminal charges were dismissed and I only spent a couple of hours in jail.”

Quote: "Educators need educating, for some reason, school officials have a hard time distinguishing between what students can do and what schools can do. This case puts religion in the same category as profanity. It's incredible that they've done that. Why they think they can do it is beyond me." said Matt Staver of the Legal Group: Liberty Counsel after student Michelle Heinkel and her mother filed a federal lawsuit against Lee County School District because Heinkel and Freedom to Learn, a pro-life group based in Florida, were denied permission to pass out literature during the group's "Day of Remembrance" on April 16, 2003.

Quote: Denbigh High School in Newport, for the past two and a half years a student has been wearing a sweatshirt that says "Abortion is Homicide. You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop killing my generation. Rock For Life. "The school's assistant principal told him the message on his shirt violated a school rule that prohibits students from using obscene or profane language. He was told not to wear it to school again, even though he had been doing so without incident going on three years. Attorney Ed White of the Thomas More Law Center believes his client is being singled out because he is a Christian. He says at Denbigh High, most students are given fairly free rein to express themselves through their choice of clothing. White wrote a letter demanding that the pro-life student be allowed to wear his shirt to school.

Quote: “This student courageously took a stand for his views and our constitution. The ruling is clear-public schools don’t have the right to silence the pro-life speech of students.” stated Richard Thompson, Chief counsel for the Thomas More Law Center who represented a Fillmore High pro-life student after he was prohibited from wearing a pro-life shirt to school. The student’s shirt displayed the following message: “Abortion is Homicide. You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop killing my generation. Rock for Life.” Judge Elfvin ruled that the student’s first amendment rights were violated when Fillmore Central High School principal, Kyle Faulkner sent the student home.

Quote: In 2004, according to FIRE, a student liberties advocate, failed to intervene despite Gonzaga Law's that promise to be a "welcoming environment for students of all religious backgrounds or secular moral traditions." FIRE said the Christian Pro-Life Law Caucus was rejected at the university as an official student group when Student Bar Association (SBA) president Albert Guadagno declared that the Christian group's requirement that its leadership be Christian was "discriminatory."

Quote: In March of 2006, pro-life posters were torn down at Harvard by pro-choicers. The posters were placed up by Harvard Right to Life and depicted an in utero fetus named Elena, captioned by a crayon font, reading, “I’m 25 days old…and my heart already BEATS!!” In a follow-up story to the vandalism Jason D. Misium , founder of the Abortion Policy Group said, "It’s something not talked about [abortions], but it happens on campus. There is a reason why these posters get torn down—and not just by students. Some faculty members will occasionally do it."

Quote: in 1998, a pro-life advertising insert is believed to be the primary motive behind the theft and burning of approximately 800 student newspapers at Ithaca College. "[The dean] voiced his support for the paper's right to publish controversial material,Whether in the form of reporting, editorials, or advertising." The college president also issued a statement calling for all students to respect each other’s opinions, but declined to address the issue of burning and stealing papers directly.

Quote: "The pro-life abortion display sponsored by Justice for All contains content that is shocking and gross…The graphic nature of the exhibition is too inappropriate to be displayed on a college campus. It is offensive because of its excessive size. Students and faculty are forced to go out of their way to avoid it this week…" , stated a Kansas State College staff member in an editorial.

Quote: Brian Ramirez, a student at Maxwell High School of Technology was told by school authorities that his pro-life clothing, which bore messages such as "Abortion is Homicide" and "She is a Child not a Choice" were prohibited. Ramirez had worn the clothing at various times throughout the school year. After respectfully refusing to adhere to an assistant principal's request to remove the clothing, he was served an in-school suspension. Additionally, he was penalized with a "0" grade for each day's lab missed while in suspension and informed he would remain on suspension each day he continued to wear pro-life messages. After the Alliance Defense Fund intervened on his behalf this high school is now free to wear shirts promoting a pro-life message.

Quote: in 2004,Osbourn Park High School backed down from its policy prohibiting students from wearing pro-life clothing after threat of a lawsuit by the Thomas More Law Center. Heather Holbrook, a senior, said it began on April 16, 2004 when an assistant principal said that she could no longer wear her sweatshirt to school. The sweatshirt displayed the message: “Abortion is Homicide. You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop killing my generation. Rock for Life.” The assistant principal’s reason for prohibiting the clothing kept on changing. First, the assistant principal claimed the shirt displayed a message the school did not want to promote. Later, when questioned by Heather’s mother, the assistant principal claimed the shirt expressed a political message, the same as a Confederate flag. Finally in a letter to Heather’s family, the assistant principal claimed Heather’s pro-life message was “offensive.” The Holbrook family then contacted the Thomas More Law Center, which does not charge for its legal services. In a letter sent to school officials, the Law Center explained that Heather has a First Amendment right to express herself on campus, even on such controversial subjects as abortion, and requested immediate written assurance that Heather’s First Amendment rights would be restored. School officials were warned that if they continued to silence Heather, the Holbrook family had the right to file a federal lawsuit to restore Heather’s free speech rights. Two days later, the school district provided written assurance that Heather would be permitted to wear her pro-life sweatshirt to school.

Quote: “Yesterday I was in my Women Studies class where one group of students decided to give presentations on abortions. The next thing I know, we were spending the whole period learning about how abortion should be completely legal, that it is a good thing for society to abort babies, and that people need to learn how to positively say the word ‘abortion’ because women should be proud of the fact that they had one. The professor made us start chanting ‘abortion, abortion’ and to be honest I started to cry because there seemed to be no room for my pro-life opinion. The one time I did raise my hand to say that I disagreed with abortion and that it shouldn’t be shoved down my throat, the professor completely cut my opinion down by saying that people like me shove their beliefs down their throats and are keeping women down. I don’t get how I’m shoving my opinion down their throats when they’re making me chant ‘abortion’ at 9 a.m.”

Quote: "It is unclear why someone has written 'Princeton Univ. Pro-Choice' on the back of the sign that reads 'It's a woman's right to choose,'" said Anne Twitty, a graduate student who co-chairs Pro-Choice Vox at the campus. The statement came after 347 pro-life flags on the north lawn were vandalized. The flags were meant to represent the lives of students who might have become members of the University's Class of 2010 had abortion not been legalized. The pink and blue flags were pulled out of the ground and there were strewn coat hangers all around. In addition, the sign in front of the display was trampled and signs were put in place that read "support smaller class sizes: support abortion" and "347 rusty coat hangers were saved from mangling and mutilation."

Quote: "There was never an argument in class, a lot of people said, 'We're glad you're standing up for your beliefs.' I want an apology and for my sister to graduate and to wear the shirt again, that's all." this statement was made regarding Brittany and Tamera Chandler, two students at Roosevelt High School who say their right to free expression was violated when they were directed to change their pro-life T-shirts because administrators said the shirts might have disrupted school. The students said they were threatened with suspension when they wore the T-shirts, which included a picture of a fetus above the words "Abortion Kills Kids," as part of "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day".

Quote: August 31,2003 vandals spray-painted the South Dakota State University (SDSU) Newman Center building along with a pro-life sign out front. Between 1 and 7 a.m. vandals sprayed a female symbol on the traveling pro-life sign. They also painted “No Iraq War” on the church exterior. The incident is another example of the hate that pro-life groups have experienced.

Quote: “What about our right to free speech?” claimed three middle school students in Texas after they were forced by their teachers to conceal the pro-life message on their shirts because of the “disruption” they were causing. Amazingly, when one of the courageous pro-life students questioned, “What about our right to free speech?” the students say the teacher responded, “Freedom of speech does not apply at school!” Oh really? Texas is in the United States, right?! Of course the parents of these students were livid at the situation and challenged the school. After being informed by one of the assistant principals that the pro-life shirt was causing other students to act disruptively, the parent asked, “So what disciplinary actions were taken on the disruptive students?” Fuming, the assistant principal quickly avoided the question and informed the parent that if his daughter did not change or cover her T-shirt, she would be suspended. Again, this brave, pro-life trooper told her assistant principal that she would not remove the shirt, and her father supported her. Two hours later the school principal called the parent to apologize then informed him that his daughter had a right to wear the T-shirt.

Quote: "The "tolerant" types at UMass/Amherst protested a pro-life exhibit by taking crosses off dead babies in a mythical graveyard, throwing them in a pond and breaking them in half. They've also threatened to beat up students, who have had to call the police a total of four times in the last three days. One Umass /Amherst undergraduate was assaulted while manning the exhibit that was displayed next to the Student Union."

Quote: “I am confident that they [the university administration] won’t give the Pro-Life Cougars as many problems as they gave me,” commented Sheree Tullos after the University was sued because it discriminated against a pro-life group. Sheree Tullos, filed the lawsuit in 2001 when the school prohibited her pro-life group from displaying a picture of aborted babies in a high-traffic area of campus. U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein declared the university's former policy unconstitutional, and a settlement was reached between the parties. The settlement also required the university to pay $93,000 in attorney fees to the anti-abortion group, the Pro-Life Cougars. Tullos said she was optimistic that the new policy would allow future Pro-life Cougars to express their views on abortion without conflicting with the administrators.

Quote: "what concerns us the most about the Carolina Women’s Center is the fact that they admitted to our leadership in our March 5, 2004 meeting that “Choice USA" (a pro-abortion group) is more compatible with CWC because their mission statement promotes the right for women to choose abortion.The CWC has overstepped its legal bounds as a University Organization by taking a pro-abortion stand and excluding pro life sentiments,"stated Carolina Students for Life (CSFL),in a letter to the Directors of the Carolina Women’s Center (CWC) at the University of North Carolina pointing out pro-life discrimination. CSFL claimed that the Carolina Women’s Center refused to accommodate requests to link to the CSFL (pro-life) website on their site while, the pro-abortion group ,Choice USA, is linked to the site.

Quote: in 2004, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 27 upheld a district court ruling that the pro-life student group, Justice for All should have been allowed to hand out pamphlets on campus, even though they did not list a campus group responsible for them. The case began in February 2001 when members of Justice for All requested to erect a large display of abortion pictures in the main plaza on campus. The group’s members claimed that while near the display, they were prevented from handing out pamphlets reading “Life is beautiful — choose life” because, Justice for All was not identified as the group responsible for the pamphlets. The group, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, brought the lawsuit against the university. The court ruled that the outdoor open areas of the University of Texas at Austin campus were designated public forums for students, faculty and staff, and thus content-based restrictions on speech would rarely survive First Amendment scrutiny.

Quote: According to FIRE, a student liberties advocate, Chancellor Mark Stephen Wrighton and Law School Dean Joel Seligman of Washington University refused to allow a student pro-life organization to be recognized officially on campus: The Student Bar Association (SBA) (Whom they gave oversight to) which the University Chancellor has authorized to act officially in these matters, interfered with the rights of Law Students Pro-Life, a student group that sought permission to exist at the University. SBA President labeled "the narrowness of your group’s interests and goals." SBA also felt that the organization was not touching on all possible Pro-Life issues because it did not have an "anti-death penalty" position in its constitution. The concluded, "In short, Law Students Pro-Life had the wrong conscience."

Quote: In May of 2006, a WWU student attacked a pro-life display and did over $2700.00 in damage. According to Bellingham Herald pro-choicer, David Janus Zhang allegedly jumped over the 3-foot-high aluminum fencing surrounding the pro-life exhibit. Dave Doughty, assistant chief of the Western Washington University Police Department reported that Zhang then "went on a rampage," punching, tearing and pushing over the pro-life display. He was arrested. The display was sponsored by the Center for Bio-ethical Reform.