UC Santa Barbara Settles Lawsuit With Pro-Life Teen Assaulted by Prof
We covered this story when it happened. A professor stole the sign right out of the pro-life girl’s hands.
Eric Owens has an update at the Daily Caller.
Public University PAYS UP After Professor Claimed ‘Moral Right’ To Censor, Batter Teen Abortion Foe
The University of California, Santa Barbara has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit brought by two anti-abortion protesters after feminist studies professor Mireille Miller-Young mocked them, stole their sign, destroyed the sign and scratched up the wrists of one protester — a 16-year-old girl.
The financial details of the settlement will remain confidential, reports Campus Reform.
The plaintiffs, sisters Thrin Short and Joan Short, say they are “very satisfied” with the settlement amount.
The events that gave rise to the lawsuit occurred in March 2014. At the time, Thrin Short was 16 and Joan Short was 21.
The Short sisters, members of a Riverside, Calif.-based pro-life group called Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, were standing in a designated “free speech zone” on the UC Santa Barbara campus with at least one large, very gruesome poster depicting aborted fetuses.
Thrin Short told Fox News that Miller-Young approached her and her sister, who had already been arguing with a gaggle of angry counter-protesters. Miller-Young eventually became enraged, filched the sign and waddled away.
“Before she grabbed the sign, she was mocking me and talking over me in front of the students, saying that she was twice as old as me and had three degrees, so they should listen to her and not me,” Thrin Short explained. “Then she started the chant with the students about ‘tear down the sign.’ When that died out, she grabbed the sign.”
Public University PAYS UP After Professor Claimed ‘Moral Right’ To Censor, Batter Teen Abortion Foe (The Daily Caller)