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Dozens of incoming University of Michigan Medical School students walked out of a pro-life keynote speakers address, after a previous petition to get the speaker removed failed.

Shortly after Dr. Kristin Collier, a pro-life assistant professor of medicine at UMMS, took to the stage Sunday to address the new students at their White Coat Ceremony, several dozen people got up from their seats and headed for the auditorium doors, video of the ceremony showed.

A video of the walkout on Twitter quickly amassed over 200K likes.

Colliers speech was not expected to focus on abortion, but some students petitioned the school weeks prior to remove her as the keynote speaker over her support for the unborn.

"I want to acknowledge the deep wounds our community has suffered over the past several weeks," Collier started her speech, which could have been a veiled reference to the controversy surrounding the protest or the U.S. Supreme Courts overturning of Roe v. Wade.

"We have a great deal of work to do for healing to occur," she continued, the National Review reported. "And I hope that for today, for this time, we can focus on what matters most: coming together to support our newly accepted students and their families with the goal of welcoming them into one of the greatest vocations that exist on this earth."

The protesting group included students, donning their medical white coats, and some parents. The school said 168 new medical students attended the initiation ceremony and took the White Coat Pledge and the Hippocratic Oath.

Rookie mistake to have kept this person as speaker given the current climate. The school frankly should known better than that.

Good on them

Disgusting that "pro-life" people are even allowed to be doctors tbh

I can't tell if this post is satire.

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I interpret that as him just saying, if you're "pro-life", you're not prioritizing anyone's health or well being.