“Get your rosaries off our ovaries” chanted a group of men protesting the first meeting of the Manchester Pro-Life Society, a student group established at Manchester University in January 2024 to "create a pro-life culture on campus".
"Get your rosaries off our testicles" would have been more accurate, but it just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Besides, the group of protesters heckling the pro-life students didn't appear overly concerned with matters of truth, rather with creating a terrifying and hostile spectacle – one in which Inge Botha, a first year undergraduate dental hygiene and therapy student and member of the society, found herself immersed in as she tried to attend the meeting.
