The attacks on pro-choice speech are ramping up ….. Texas Tech University has canceled a speech by Dr. Shelley Sella, the first woman to openly practice third-trimester abortion care in the U.S., and the author of Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care.
The school canceled Dr. Sella’s speech after being lobbied by the Texas chapter of Turning Point USA—an organization of supposed free speech enthusiasts. Chapter president Preston Parsons told Inside Higher Ed that this wasn’t censorship or an attack on speech because Dr. Sella “would be speaking on government property, supporting an illegal activity.”
Explanation & context: Dr. Sella practices medicine in New Mexico, where there are no limits on late-term abortions. In Texas, the law allows late-term abortions if the pregnancy threatens the mother’s life. Anti-abortionists have filed lawsuits to block Sella’s medical practice in New Mexico, but her practice has been found to be legal there. The dispute here is over whether cancelling this college speech is censorship of legal free speech, or a legal means to block illegal speech not covered by the 1st Amendment. An assessment of the bias and fact accuracy of the substack, Abortion, Every Day, is at this link, at the second query, which is this: “Can you do an assessment of the substack Abortion, Every Day for fact accuracy and bias? The article linked to above is from that substack”.
Link to the substack article: https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-college-cancels-illegal-speech?utm=