{"id":198594,"date":"2019-03-22T06:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=198594"},"modified":"2019-03-22T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:36:18","slug":"pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Students for Life chapter at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor set up a pro-life display in remembrance of lives lost to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>. Called the Cemetery of the Innocents, the group placed pink crosses as part of the Students for Life of America #PlannedParenthoodTruth Tour, aimed at exposing the truth of how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/abortioncorporation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> treats women. But a group of pro-abortion students interfered, <a href=\"https:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/2019\/03\/15\/pro-choice-students-try-to-steal-pro-life-cemetery-of-the-innocents-at-university-of-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vandalizing the display<\/a> in an attempt to prevent the message from reaching students.<\/p>\n<p>The display was set up around nine o&#8217;clock in the morning, with permission from the university. But throughout the day, pro-abortion students kept approaching to vandalize it by removing crosses, throwing them away, and putting them on top of trash cans.<\/p>\n<p>A video caught an exchange between Kaylena Wiederhold, Students for Life\u2019s Michigan Regional Coordinator, and one of the pro-abortion protesters.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3TWAaFCSUp0\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there a reason why you&#8217;re doing this?&#8221; Wiederhold asked. Yet despite Wiederhold&#8217;s calm tone, the activist refused to engage with her, repeatedly insisting that the conversation was &#8220;not going to work,&#8221; and refusing to give the pro-life group the crosses back. It wasn&#8217;t until police officers approached that she caved, although she tried to play innocent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were just picking up this garbage on the school campus,&#8221; she began. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve realized that apparently, this is someone&#8217;s property. And you&#8217;re telling us to leave it, I&#8217;m assuming, correct?&#8221; The officers reaffirmed that the pro-life group had a permit, and the crosses would be returned. Wiederhold asked the activist to return them how she found them, but instead, she dumped them out of a trash bag onto the ground and left.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>READ: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-fight-abortion-5-minutes\/\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">5 pro-life ways to fight abortion in 5 minutes or less<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree-speech on college campuses continues to be an issue,&#8221; Wiederhold said in a blog post on the Students for Life of America <a href=\"https:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/2019\/02\/13\/amid-fight-over-infanticide-at-state-and-federal-level-students-for-life-to-screen-gosnell-movie-on-90-campuses-and-counting\/\">website<\/a>. &#8220;The abortion activists on campus should be ashamed of themselves for trying to disrupt a peaceful memorial to not only babies harmed by abortion, but also women, men, and families harmed by abortion. We hope the University of Michigan will come out strongly in defense of free-speech on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This kind of vandalism is not unheard of by any means; signs promoting pro-life talks have been <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/signs-lila-rose-stolen-ucla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stolen<\/a>, and other on-campus displays are <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/two-campus-pro-life-displays-vandalized-in-one-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-display-at-marquette-university-vandalized-by-pro-abortion-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">targets<\/a> for vandalism, sometimes even accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-display-attacked-by-masked-man-wielding-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violence<\/a>. And it&#8217;s not only an assault on pro-lifers but an attack on free speech as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Students for Life chapter at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor set up a pro-life display in remembrance of lives lost to abortion. Called the Cemetery of the Innocents, the group placed pink crosses as part of the Students for Life of America #PlannedParenthoodTruth Tour, aimed at exposing the truth of how Planned Parenthood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":198681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pro-abortion students at the University of Michigan attempted to remove a pro-life display placed in memory of aborted children. Police had to intervene.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pro-abortion students at the University of Michigan attempted to remove a pro-life display placed in memory of aborted children. Police had to intervene.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-22T11:37:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-03-22T11:36:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pro-life-display-vandalized.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"798\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"407\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\"},\"headline\":\"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-22T11:37:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-03-22T11:36:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/\"},\"wordCount\":421,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Activism\",\"Newsbreak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/\",\"name\":\"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-22T11:37:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-03-22T11:36:18+00:00\",\"description\":\"Pro-abortion students at the University of Michigan attempted to remove a pro-life display placed in memory of aborted children. Police had to intervene.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\",\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Cassy Cooke\"},\"description\":\"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display","description":"Pro-abortion students at the University of Michigan attempted to remove a pro-life display placed in memory of aborted children. Police had to intervene.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display","og_description":"Pro-abortion students at the University of Michigan attempted to remove a pro-life display placed in memory of aborted children. Police had to intervene.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2019-03-22T11:37:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-03-22T11:36:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":798,"height":407,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pro-life-display-vandalized.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cassy Cooke","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cassy Cooke","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/"},"author":{"name":"Cassy Cooke","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392"},"headline":"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display","datePublished":"2019-03-22T11:37:48+00:00","dateModified":"2019-03-22T11:36:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/"},"wordCount":421,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Activism","Newsbreak"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/","name":"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-03-22T11:37:48+00:00","dateModified":"2019-03-22T11:36:18+00:00","description":"Pro-abortion students at the University of Michigan attempted to remove a pro-life display placed in memory of aborted children. Police had to intervene.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vandalize-pro-life-display\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392","name":"Cassy Cooke","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Cassy Cooke"},"description":"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198594"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198834,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198594\/revisions\/198834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}