ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A video posted on social media shows some University of Michigan medical students walking out of their White Coat ceremony after a pro-life speaker and professor stepped up to the podium.

 

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Dr. Kristin Collier, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, had been scheduled as the keynote speaker, but students tried to remove her from the speaking position with a petition a few weeks earlier.

 

Dr. Collier, who is openly pro-life, did not address abortion in her speech. Her entire remarks can be viewed below.

 

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University of Michigan Medical School officials said 168 new medical students attended the initiation ceremony, where they took the White Coat Pledge and the Hippocratic Oath.

This is not the first time U of M has been in the spotlight during the last week. Jim Harbaugh, the U of M head football coach, told a crowd at a recent pro-life fundraiser, “I love life. I believe in having a loving care and respect for life and death. My faith and my science are what drives these beliefs in me … I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born.”