Free speech only applies to liberal-left. They teach this at school. The school in this case is Harvard… Harvard being the liberal university notable for its elite intellectuals among its faculty—well OK a disclaimer is in order here: elite liberals and far-lefties—and its liberal student body which falls in line as directed. Real thinkers here.
This is how they argue their case:
Posters Celebrating Fetal Development Ripped Down at Harvard
By Gudrun Schultz
CONNETICUT, United States, March 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A series of simple posters by Harvard Right to Life, showing the early stages of fetal development, accompanied by cheerful text and line drawings, have so outraged pro-abortion students they are ripping the posters down.
In February, HRL began posting the series on campus. The posters contain photos of an unborn child named “Elena,” who offers enthusiastic, slightly goofy commentary on her development and enjoyment of life. One reads “Oh hi! I was just celebrating all my organs and me being 56 days alive, eight weeks old.” They are accented with colourful doodles and line drawings, and end with the statement “A person’s a person no matter how small.”
The posters generated heated controversy and triggered some violent reactions among abortion advocates on campus.
One person told the Harvard Crimson the image was “disgusting.”
“I personally find the image disgusting and don’t want to walk past it everyday,” Nichele M. McClendon said. “It doesn’t have to do with abortion as an issue or free speech; it’s about being decent and not being disgusting.”
Another Oh Harvard blogger wrote, on February 16:
“I think I have a right to not see that crap on my way to breakfast, lunch, and dinner…Ethically charged poster like that have no place in common spaces. Quite simply, if one is pro-choice, they make you uncomfortable and annoyed…Some things aren’t suited to cute posters with girly fonts and doodles. Some things don’t serve a real purpose…”
A Harvard Crimson editorial, written by Alexandra Atiya on March 10, said:
“[I]t is simply a statement of anger to express your ideas in the way of the “Elena Posters”…[I]t’s unnecessarily divisive…[T]his deliberately flattens an intensely painful and complicated issue. It also happens to misrepresent the pro-choice members of this campus as bloodthirsty baby killers.”
HRL president Meghan E. Grizzle said the posters were getting torn down “left and right,” and the organization had to constantly replace them.
”Apparently people find the picture of a fetus gruesome and I don’t understand why, because we’re not showing pictures of an aborted fetus or a dead baby.”
Thanks to Jill Stanek for the story tip:
http://www.jillstanek.com
It’s hard to fathom what it is that abortion advocates dislike about the message. They want all people to dislike the life process and admire the abortion process I guess.
The blog entry by the good Jill Stanek includes the posters and this observation in her blog:
I’m reminded by this story of the recent flak created when a newspaper considered ultrasound photo ads “too graphic” to run.
The pro-life movement has apparently discovered something infuriating to pro-aborts: ultrasound photos of preborn humans.
Click to see larger version of this example of one of the posters
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As we know, there is absolutely no abortion law in Canada, thanks to liberals in various governments. Abortions are allowed to occur for any reason or no reason at all whatsoever— at any time in any pregancy, no questions asked, all at taxpayer expense. Abortions are legal at 4 months, 8 months, or 9 months—it really doesn’t matter in Canada. That’s the liberal-left way. Each year there are in excess of 100,000 abortions in Canada. The number of induced abortions per 100 live births is about 31.0. Today, for instance, 284 innocent human lives were snuffed-out on purpose, assuming my math is valid, which includes doing abortions 365 days per year (why the hell wouldn’t the do ’em on Sunday and Christmas Day?)
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