VANCOUVER, Feb 16 (LifeSiteNews) - On Monday, three students at the University of British Columbia filed a lawsuit against the university’s Alma Mater Society (AMS), the UBC student government, and several individual students. The Plaintiffs, Stephanie Gray, Athena Macapagal and Michelle Laroya are all undergraduate students at UBC, and members of the Pro-Life groups “Students For Life” and the “AMS Lifeline Club”. On the morning of November 23rd, 1999, they set up an informational display on abortion that was destroyed by several members of the Alma Mater Society.
The attack was captured on videotape and broadcast nationally on televised newscasts and is also available on LifeSite. In the video, Erin Kaiser, the head of UBC Student’s for Choice, along with at least two other self-appointed UBC Thought Police, can be seen knocking down, kicking and ripping up signs as well as sweeping literature off tables and turning the tables over.
The pro-life students claim the University and the student government denied them their rights to freedom of speech and assembly. The suit suggests further that the Defendants conspired against the students and their pro-life club by canceling and denying room bookings, and refusing to allow certain signs or even certain words to be displayed in the Student Union Building.
The students are seeking damages, as well as an injunction to prevent the AMS from continuing to stifle their speech on campus.
For access to the video on LifeSite click here.
See the Vancouver sun coverage of this story.