A professor at Hunter College in New York angrily cursed at a group of pro-life students before destroying their display, and his actions were applauded by pro-abortion students on campus.
According to Learner for life, Professor Shellyne Rodriguez approached a table manned by pro-life students and began swearing at them. “On May 2, 2023, pro-life students at Hunter College hosted our This is Chemical Abortion tour display,” said SFLA Northeast Regional Coordinator Taylor McGee. “About an hour before the table, a professor named Shellyne Rodriguez came to the table and scolded the students. She cursed at them and said, ‘this is b** *****, this is violence, you’re triggering my students’ by the fact that they were peacefully standing there. Then the professor threw the baby models and the subject cards over and off the table.
PROFESSOR GONE WILD: Pro-abortion professor Shellyne Rodriquez swears at pro-life students and destroys a table at Hunter College. pic.twitter.com/QNspuXB4KK
— Students for Life of America (@StudentsforLife) May 17, 2023
After his first outburst, pro-life students alerted campus security, but Rodriguez returned a second time. Although he was able to continue yelling at the students, he was unable to destroy their display again… even though he tried.
“Professionals in a workplace have no business harassing students for any reason let alone for peacefully engaging in dialogue,” McGee said. “Free speech is essential for the growth and development of society, and we have seen throughout history the adverse effects of suppressing free speech. Not only that, but the speech we demand is the protection of human rights, particularly the rights of the most innocent and the purest: the preborn.”
Another group of students, CUNY for Abortion Rights, posted support on Instagram for Rodriguez. Hunter College is one of the constituent colleges for CUNY, or the City University of New York. Rodriguez’s actions were labeled as “courageous” and “reasonable,” and they wrote that the attack on abortion is an attack on “all of us.” They even demanded the campus administration bar groups like Students for Life from participating on campus.
“In solidarity with Shellyne, we pledge to disrupt, dismantle, and uproot any of these far-right groups when they attempt to plant seeds of harm at CUNY,” the pro-abortion group wrote.
Earlier this month at Hunter College, a pro-abortion student stole two fetal models, impaled them on chicken wire, chewed them up, and painted them with what appeared to be fake blood. He also told a pro-life student to kill himself.
