{"id":93023,"date":"2016-04-20T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=93023"},"modified":"2016-04-21T08:14:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:14:44","slug":"cu-boulder-student-govt-tries-to-block-abby-johnson-from-speaking-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cu-boulder-student-govt-tries-to-block-abby-johnson-from-speaking-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"CU-Boulder student government tries to block Abby Johnson from speaking on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A recent speech by pro-life speaker Abby Johnson at the University of Colorado-Boulder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/27102\/\">would not have happened<\/a> unless Alliance Defending Freedom intervened to halt pro-abortion discrimination by the student government.<\/p>\n<p>Student-sponsored events such as guest speeches are funded at CU-Boulder by the student government&#8217;s Cultural Events board. When the campus&#8217;s Students for Life chapter applied for a grant to bring in Johnson, the board asked SFL whether they could find a speaker willing to discuss abortion &#8220;without attacking the organization of Planned Parenthood&#8221; or who could provide \u201can educational perspective\u201d &#8212; despite the fact that as a former Planned Parenthood facility director, Johnson possesses detailed firsthand knowledge of the issue and organization.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->SFL answered the questions, but the board then denied the request, claiming she &#8220;will not provide an unbiased view on pro-life issues.\u201d Further, the Board did not name a separate entity to which SFL could appeal their decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3.jpg\" alt=\"NewDefundAd3\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So SFL got in touch with Alliance Defending Freedom, who found that the Cultural Events board had no problem previously funding a variety of controversial figures, including Communist leader and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/11\/jury-isnt-out-on-angela-davis\/?page=all\">alleged domestic terrorist<\/a> Angela Davis, transgender activist Janet Mock, and illegal-immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas, without requesting that different speakers be brought in to balance their positions.<\/p>\n<p>ADF then <a href=\"https:\/\/adflegal.blob.core.windows.net\/web-content-dev\/docs\/default-source\/documents\/resources\/media-resources\/students-for-life-v.-university-of-colorado-boulder\/2016-03-01-letter-to-university-of-colorado-boulder.pdf?sfvrsn=2\">wrote to<\/a> CU-Boulder administrators to inform them that the Cultural Events board was engaging in viewpoint discrimination and request clarification. The board then reversed itself, asking SFL only content-neutral questions and agreeing to 98 percent of their funding request. Johnson&#8217;s speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/cu-news\/ci_29754205\/dont-be-silent-anti-abortion-activist-abby-johnson\">took place<\/a> on April 11, part of which can be viewed below:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KY3VK2CMj4&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent speech by pro-life speaker Abby Johnson at the University of Colorado-Boulder would not have happened unless Alliance Defending Freedom intervened to halt pro-abortion discrimination by the student government. Student-sponsored events such as guest speeches are funded at CU-Boulder by the student government&#8217;s Cultural Events board. When the campus&#8217;s Students for Life chapter applied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":93057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[150,19,7420,2508,190,318,909,74,4601,1872,8472],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CU-Boulder student government tries to block Abby Johnson from speaking on campus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CU-Boulder&#039;s student gov&#039;t had refused to fund a pro-life speaker, while allowing group funds to go toward transgender and pro-illegal immigration speakers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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