Who’s Afraid of an Abortion Debate?
— Posted by John (March 3, 2008 at 4:54 pm)
An abortion debate at York University in Toronto—a public univeristy, and the third-largest university in Canada—was cancelled by the university’s Student Union just hours before it was scheduled to take place.
Margaret Fung, the president of the pro-life group Students for Bioethical Awareness—one of the groups that sponsored tried to sponsor the debate—said:
I was told in a meeting by members of the York Federation of Students [YFS] that debating abortion is comparable to debating whether a man should be allowed to beat his wife. They said that there is freedom of speech to a limit, and that abortion is not an issue to debate. They demanded that the event not take place and shut us down. [emphasis added]
The interesting thing is that debating abortion is actually like debating whether a man should be allowed to beat his wife—only for the exact opposite reason why the YFS thinks it is.
Also at this meeting, Fung says that Jeremy Salter, the executive director of YFS, “compared pro-lifers to the KKK”.
Considering the report UCLA pro-life students released last week about Planned Parenthood employees’ willingness to take donations for the specific purpose of killing black babies, Salter’s comparison was, um, not very well timed.
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ChristineM says:
Living in Toronto, I can honestly say that freedom of speech only applies to Liberal views. Even Catholics schools had to relinquish their rights by allowing a gay student to bring his date to the school prom, now York U is further stepping all over the Charter of Rights.
In terms of the pro-life position on abortion debate being comparable to wife-beaters is disgusting. Even when I was pro-choice/abortion I never would have thought-up something like that; it’s practically stating that unborn children are like woman-beaters
Comment posted March 4th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Naaman says:
Apparently, unborn children are worse than woman-beaters, because domestic violence is not a capital offense.
Comment posted March 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
ChristineM says:
you know, that’s very true. Most people who tend to be pro-choice/abortion are usually also against the death penalty, even though a criminal has done something wrong while the unborn is innocent.
Non-the-less, that doesn’t stop many of them from believing an unwanted-unborn is a parasite, leeching off of their nutrients and making their host fat…
Comment posted March 5th, 2008 at 6:49 am
rosie says:
lots of animal rights activists are pro-aborts too, that has never made sense to me.
Comment posted March 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am