Med School Beats First Amendment Suit Over Student’s Online Rant

The University of New Mexico doesn’t have to face a First Amendment lawsuit by a medical student who had to undergo professionalism training after posting a profanity-laced anti-abortion screed on Facebook, the Tenth Circuit ruled Nov. 14.

Paul Hunt’s Facebook post, written shortly after the 2012 election, referred to Barack Obama’s supporters as “sick, disgusting people” who support “genocide against the unborn” based on their “depraved belief in legal child murder.” It described Democrats as “Moloch worshiping”—an allusion to the Mesopotamian god of child sacrifice—and said they were worse than Nazis who participated in the Holocaust out of “honest patriotism.” ...