UNIVERSITY FACES LAWSUIT FOR MASK MANDATE FIRING – The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill issued an executive order preventing Pro-Life groups from getting funding. The move has been met with legal action from FIRE, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which issued a letter to the student body president to rescind the order.
Free speech group calls out UNC student leaders for banning funds to pro-life clubs
From www.thecollegefix.com
2022-07-29 11:48:54
Matt Lamb – Associate Editor
Excerpt:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s student government is in violation of the First Amendment due to a July executive order, according to a leading campus free speech organization.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a letter on Thursday to Taliajah Vann, student body president, as well as university and student government leadership, and asked them to rescind an executive order against funds going to pro-life organizations.
The executive order came as a result of the June 24 Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which reversed Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to the states.
The letter informed Vann that the July 6 executive order that prohibits funds from going to “any individual, business, or organization which actively advocates to further limit by law access to reproductive healthcare,” violated the viewpoint-neutrality principle of the First Amendment.
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