Law School Student Under Fire for Writing Pro-Life Column
We’ve reached the point where standing up for the unborn makes you suspect.
Paul Caron reports at the TaxProfBlog.
Ohio State Law School Under Microscope For Reaction To 2L’s Pro-Life Op-Ed
Washington Times, Ohio State Law School Under Microscope for Reaction to Pro-Life Column:
Student: Leaders more concerned about squelching conservative voice than ensuring safety.
All Madison Gesiotto wanted to do when she met with the dean of her law school was report a threat prompted by a newspaper column she wrote pointing out the high abortion rate in the black community.
She assumed the meeting would last 10 minutes. Instead, she said, she was there for about an hour as three deans at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law critiqued her on what they saw as problems with her Oct. 23 column in The Washington Times, The Number One Killer of Black Americans. …
A second-year law student who writes the Millennial Mindset column for The Washington Times online opinion pages, Ms. Gesiotto said she tried repeatedly to steer the conversation back to the threat made against her, but that the deans appeared to “blow it off.”
“I’m a very tough person. I very rarely get upset or sensitive about things,” said Ms. Gesiotto. “But I was crying in that meeting for about 30 minutes, I was so shocked. I’ve never been in a situation with people I respected and looked up to and felt so violated.”
Ms. Gesiotto knew that many of her peers at the law school would disagree with the column. She expected to take some flak. What she didn’t expect, she said, was having administrators show less interest in her safety than in tearing apart a column entirely unrelated to her coursework. …
Ohio State Law School Under Microscope For Reaction To 2L's Pro-Life Op-Ed (TaxProfBlog)