From Kristan
Hawkins
President, Students for Life of America
While
I know we're winning with this
generation on abortion, we still have a long way to go, especially with
the those in our parent's generation who run our schools and
universities.
Last week as Students for Life of America was on the University of Michigan campus with our What Has Roe Done for Us? Tour,
educating and dialoging with students about how abortion exploits and
harms women, we found out that the university was endorsing a different
message
to their students.
The University is
currently sponsoring a pro-abortion "art" display called 4000 Years of Choice, which declares “Abortion as a Blessing”
and a “gift from God.” This directly counters the truth put forth in SFLA’s display which tells the stories of women like
Jennifer Morbelli, Karnamaya Mongar, Tonya Reaves, and Marla Cardamone who were killed through legal abortion.
Just
to be certain that the display
was in fact publicly funded through taxpayer dollars, our team called
the university’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), the
host and co-sponsor of this display, along with the UM’s Program for
Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. After
talking with them, it was discovered that the University of Michigan
paid $1,000
to have artist, Heather Ault, come onto campus to give a lecture, as a
part of that lecture she put up her “art display.” On the
phone, a representative for the school told us, “Contrary to what
they are saying this display is not about pro-choice or even
pro-abortion.
This is about the history of women learning to control their
reproductive system. Heather is trying to get past the hanger and the
idea of back alley
dirty abortions and celebrate the ways women, and men for that matter,
can control their reproductive system through birth control and even by
aborting a fetus.”
What???
While
Heather
Ault is trying to portray herself as an abortion historian, the truth is
that she is radical, abortion activist, and the University of Michigan
has
funded her message through taxpayer money. Take a look at her “art” and
decide for yourself whether or not her display is not
pro-abortion.
Abortion
is never safe for women,
legal or illegal, and for the University of Michigan to have the
audacity to use taxpayer dollars and a taxpayer-funded building to push
forth an
agenda and human rights violation that the majority of Americans oppose
is disgusting.
Can you do 2 things for me today?
1) Call the University of Michigan President, Mary Sue Coleman, at 734-764-6270
or email her at presoff@umich.edu
and demand that she sees that this display is taken down,
that all taxpayer money is returned for this event and display, and that
never again will UM align themselves so closely with abortion as to
allow
public funds to be invested in a flagrant agenda to support and promote
abortion.
2) Can
you chip in $15 or $30 to sponsor a mile or two on our What has Roe Done for Us Tour?
We still have 15 schools to reach in the next 3 weeks, and we are still
$14,727 short of our goal. As you can see, our message is badly needed
on
campuses. We have to be out there telling young women the truth about
abortion, because they aren't hearing it anywhere else on
campus.
It
is an outrage for the University
of Michigan to endorse this anti-human rights message that “abortion is a
gift from God” and that it is “a blessing.” I hope
you can join us to get the university to take down this horrific display
and help us reach thousands more of students with our message of truth
and
hope.
Use this link to help Students for Life of America reach their goal
Voices for Life Is a blog dedicated to informing and educating the public on pro-life and pro-family issues. Our focus is to protect the sanctity of all human life from conception until natural death. This includes protecting babies from abortion, fetal tissue experimentation, and embryonic research; and the general population from euthanasia, cloning, population control and human genetic engineering.
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