University says donor money refusal not about abortion

The University of Alabama in the United States insists its refusal of a donor's money had nothing to do with abortion and it has released several emails to prove it, writes Nicole Chavez for CNN.

Last week, the university returned US$21.5 million to Florida-based lawyer and developer Hugh Culverhouse Jr and removed his name from its law school. Culverhouse claims the decision was retaliation after he urged students to boycott over the state’s recently passed abortion ban. But university officials said it was not related.

Kellee Reinhart, the university’s vice-chancellor for communications, said the “decision was never about the issue of abortion”, in a statement that included emails between university officials and Culverhouse, as well as internal emails about the attorney. “It was about ending the continued outside interference by the donor into the operations of the University of Alabama School of Law,” Reinhart added.
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