I love UA and my DD17 is receiving a wonderful education. However, if this were going on a few years ago she would have never considered UA and I am hesitant to recommend the school to others now. The disregard for health and well being along with the bad press nationally will impact her while job hunting. People are already talking about it at her internship. I am pretty confident that any thoughts about staying in Alabama after graduation are out. She loves the school but she would not encourage her siblings to attend.
One clarification to the OP. UA did not return the Culverhouse $ and remove his name from the law school due to his stance on abortion or his call for students to boycott (mentioned in the OP). This is all a convenient spin that he has created and perpetuated to protect himself from the embarrassment of the actual reason. These actions by the university were initiated prior to any discussions about abortion. The donor leveraged his donation to be a part of university decisions on hiring and firing. He wanted to put his own people in key positions. He wanted unrestricted access to the campus at will (sit in on classes and meetings unannounced and without restrictions). He called for the firing of 10 professors. He held a large family donation in his father’s estate to the business school hostage a few years earlier. He insulted and tried to undermine the dean of the law school. He tried to manipulate the dean and president of the school and they stood up for academic integrity. This is all outlined in a series of emails going back that have been released.