Opponents of Maine campus pro-life group invoke Charlie Kirk in social media threat : 'gotta be careful'

A radical of students who founded a section of a pro-life enactment astatine the University of Southern Maine (USM) accidental they were targeted with a societal media menace that invoked the sanction of assassinated blimpish person Charlie Kirk.

"[T]hese Charlie Kirk enthusiasts gotta beryllium cautious don't they cognize what happened to the guy," the post, which did not see punctuation, said.

The menace was posted connected Yik Yak, an anonymous chat exertion mostly utilized by assemblage students.

A screenshot of a Yik Yak station directed toward pro-life students astatine the University of Southern Maine successful precocious November 2025.  (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

Recently, respective USM students founded a section of Students for Life, a pro-life nine with chapters connected assemblage campuses nationwide. The field radical is called Huskies4Life, and its leaders told Fox News Digital that the hatred began earlier the section was adjacent officially founded.

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Matthew Gozzi is the northeast field enactment coordinator for Students for Life. He said the USM radical is emboldened by the societal media hatred, astir of which is anonymous, and by 2 protests against the caller section connected campus.

"We knew that present much than ever, you person to talk out, and you person to beryllium authentic astir who you are and your values, and that we weren't going to backmost down if immoderate of this worldly happened," helium told Fox News Digital.

He said that erstwhile the nine petitioned the pupil legislature to beryllium officially recognized, the protests began. Opponents began taking photos of the section members during tabling events, and reported them to the schoolhouse to effort to person them removed, according to Gozzi. Two protests against them broke out.

"I deliberation that they judge that determination is nary absorption to their ideas and that they don't recognize however regular blimpish values are," Gozzi said. "I besides deliberation that they've been told done media, done politicians, done everything, that thing that disagrees with their views constitutes unit and naturally, you know, you should combat unit with violence."

University of Southern Maine students and unit protestation the warfare successful Gaza. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

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USM inferior Jadyn Carrigan captured the screenshot of the Yik Yak station referencing Kirk.

"I deliberation that, you know, each idiosyncratic has the close to workout their, their escaped speech, and that's precisely what myself and my nine members are present to do," she told Fox News Digital. "We're not present with immoderate malicious intent. We're not present truly adjacent to argue. We're present to person respectful dialogue, and that's the full quality of ideology is proceeding some sides of the spectrum, immoderate that is."

"I deliberation myself, arsenic good arsenic my different nine members, are doing the champion we tin to not combat hatred with hate, but amusement everyone the respect that they deserve, careless of their opinion," she said.

Abby Patenaude is besides a subordinate of Huskies4Life.

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She sent Fox News Digital screenshots of a trove of societal media posts targeting the group.

"[W]ishing rabies upon your families," a remark connected the group's Instagram says.

"Pro beingness isn't pro woman," said different comment, which added 2 emojis.

Similar comments riddled different Instagram post.

University of Southern Maine students astatine the process extremity of the processional intermission to look for acquainted faces successful the assemblage during the 138th commencement ceremonial astatine the Cross Insurance Arena connected May 12, 2018. (Ben McCanna/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

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"How is this a existent club? Embarrassing! Petition to get escaped of this anserine club," said a comment.

[P]ro prime is the lone prime babe!! [J]ust accidental you hatred women and determination on," said another.

"I deliberation it's truly telling, like, the quality betwixt america and them," Patenaude told Fox News Digital. "And, like, I hatred to usage that division, but, they hatred maine for reasoning differently, and we proceed to respect and emotion them regardless."

"We're encouraging respectful dialogue, and we're present to prevention babies, we're present to enactment moms, and we're present to make a civilization of beingness connected and disconnected the campus, and hopefully each astir Southern Maine and this is conscionable however we person to bash that," she said.

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USM confirmed to Fox News Digital that it is alert of the posts.

"USM is alert that the pupil radical and its module advisor person precocious been the taxable of threatening social media posts, astir of them connected an anonymous app," she said. "That app is not owned oregon controlled by the University."

"USM’s Department of Public Safety and Office of Student Engagement and Belonging are engaging with the pupil nine to connection enactment and resources, and the pupil members person besides reported these posts via the app," the connection continued.

Students who founded a section of a pro-life enactment astatine the University of Southern Maine accidental they were targeted with societal media threats. (KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images)

Gozzi noted that helium was pleased with however the schoolhouse has handled the situation.

The connection continues, explaining that if immoderate students down the threatening oregon harassing posts are identified, they volition beryllium taxable to the University of Maine System’s Student Code of Conduct reappraisal process, and that field constabulary besides prosecute erstwhile threatening oregon harassing posts are made.

"USM encourages escaped enquiry and welcomes respectful discussions among those with differing viewpoints," the schoolhouse said, noting that its escaped code argumentation aligns with the First Amendment.

"There shall beryllium nary regularisation astatine immoderate System institutions connected these cardinal rights, though the University whitethorn prohibit code that violates the law, defames circumstantial individuals, genuinely threatens oregon harasses others, oregon violates privateness oregon confidentiality requirements oregon interests," the schoolhouse argumentation says.

Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, reprimanded the anonymous poster for invoking Kirk's name.

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"As idiosyncratic who is inactive mourning the assassination of my friend, Charlie Kirk, I’m horrified that Students for Life students successful Maine had to woody with that benignant of societal media bullying," Hawkins said. "But the courageous effect of our pupil leaders and their willingness to basal up for mothers and their children — calved and preborn — shows wherefore we are winning."

"Abortion is the quality rights atrocity facing the Pro-Life Generation, and we are not going to enactment silent, though we volition instrumentality each the precautions needed to support those committed to loving them both."