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April 9. Comment by Cole Peters:
“WHY do you keep putting up posters at school??????? Do you really think its an appropriate place to spread this crap? The majority of the student body is PRO-CHOICE and we are sick of seeing this **** at school. Women have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies and NOONE is going to tell me what I can or cannot do with my uterus!!! So seriously, mind your own ******* business.”
In response:
We do realize that a lot of people on campus are pro-choice, and we’ve been putting up these posters to raise awareness regarding abortion. Our mission as a student group is to “protect, defend, affirm, and celebrate all human life, from conception until natural death”.
A women’s right to choose what she does with her body ends as soon as it infringes on another person’s body. The human fetus, from the moment of conception, is a genetically programed, distinct individual of the species Homo sapiens. You even learn it in Bio 107, Bio 108, Psych 105. Before conception, you did not exist. Your father’s sperm was not you. Your mother’s egg was not you. Scientifically, we must have (and do) an objective beginning. The fetus is neither simply part of the mother; no one person has two sets of heartbeats, two sets of brainwaves, two different blood types, etc.
But, just for the sake of argument, here’s a short excerpt from Dr. Peter Kreet’s book “Making Choices”, 120-121:
“A second thing we know by formal logic alone is that either we do or do not know what a fetus is. Either there is “out there,” in objective fact, independent of our minds, a human life, or there is not; and either there is knowledge in our minds of this objective fact, or there is not.
So, there are four possibilities:
The fetus is a person, and we know that;
The fetus is a person, but we don’t know that;
The fetus isn’t a person, but we don’t know that;
The fetus isn’t a person, and we know that.
What is abortion in each of these four cases?
In Case 1, where the fetus is a person and you know that, abortion is murder. First-degree murder, in fact. You deliberately kill an innocent human being.
In Case 2, where the fetus is a person and you don’t know that, abortion is manslaughter. It’s like driving over a man-shaped overcoat in the street at night or shooting toxic chemicals into a building that you’re not sure is fully evacuated. You’re not sure there is a person there, but you’re not sure there isn’t either, and it just so happens that there is a person there, and you kill him. You cannot plead ignorance. True, you didn’t know there was a person there, but you didn’t know there wasn’t either, so your act was literally the height of irresponsibility. This is the act Roe allowed.
In Case 3, the fetus isn’t a person, but you don’t know that. So abortion is just as irresponsible as it is in the previous case. You ran over the overcoat or fumigated the building without knowing that there were no persons there. You were lucky; there weren’t. But you didn’t care; you didn’t take care; you were just as irresponsible. You cannot legally be charged with manslaughter, since no man was slaughtered, but you can and should be charged with criminal negligence.
Only in Case 4 is abortion a reasonable, permissible, and responsible choice. But note: What makes Case 4 permissible is not merely the fact that the fetus is not a person but also your knowledge that it is not, your overcoming of skepticism. So skepticism counts not for abortion but against it. Only if you are not a skeptic, only if you are a dogmatist, only if you are certain that there is no person in the fetus, no man in the coat, or no person in the building, may you abort, drive, or fumigate.
We are putting up posters because we want to save lives. That’s it.
Thanks,
Nicole Severin
| Posted 1 year, 6 months agoPresident, Go Life: U of A Campus Pro-Life
In response to Cole Peters, I would like to say that even though both sides of the debate are passionate about this topic, I’d like to remind you that venting that anger doesn’t help either side. When a it turns from a civil debate/discussion to an argument, we move from an exchange of knowledge to an exchange of ignorance.
I admit that I do get very angry when I see the “pro-choice” posters up in humanities complex every day, but I don’t go so far as to rant and swear about it. I also don’t see your concern in the posters, seeing as how the “pro-life” posters simply advertise talks, symposiums and the like, whereas these “pro-choice” posters display statistics that are not only biased, but just plain false.
Nicole I’d like to thank and congratulate you on the level headed, firm defense of your position.
| Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago