Inside Higher Ed: Settlement on Abortion Signs
Rhode Island College and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island have settled a lawsuit brought by a women’s group over the college’s censorship of signs supporting abortion rights, the ACLU announced Tuesday. The campus Women’s Studies Organization, a student group, sued the college after a December 2005 incident in which its president ordered campus police officers to take down signs that the group had posted near the college’s entrance that said “Our bodies, our choice” and “Keep your rosaries off our ovaries.” Rhode Island officials argued at the time that the students hadn’t gone through the necessary campus procedures to post signs on campus property. Under the settlement, the college did not admit wrongdoing, but it agreed to cover the student group’s legal costs and to give it $5,000, the ACLU said.
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