Prolife students at Eastern Michigan sue university for refusing to fund prolife activity

With the help of the Alliance Defense Fund, Students for Life of Eastern Michigan is suing their university after they were denied university funding for a prolife exhibit.  Every student who attends Eastern Michigan is required to pay a mandatory student fee.  A portion of the money from these fees provides funding for activities organized by student groups on campus.  The student government denied the prolife group funding because they thought their exhibit would be too controversial.

The lawsuit says that the student government should have allocated the roughly $5,000 that Students for Life had requested in February to sponsor the Genocide Awareness Project. The project uses large displays to compare abortion to the Nazis' mass killing of Jews, the lynching of African Americans, and genocide in Cambodia......

Asked by Students for Life why the money was denied, a member of the board of student government said in an e-mail: "The images you want to display are very controversial ... a little biased," according to the lawsuit.

The e-mail said that student senators "would prefer to fund something that brings awareness to both sides of the issue."

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