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Last week, an uproar mounted when the Harvard Right to Life (HRL) put up posters depicting an in utero fetus named Elena, captioned by crayon font, reading, “I’m 25 days old…and my heart already BEATS!!” Some in our community have taken justice in their own hands and deemed these posters unfit for public view. They have taken what in their view is a reasonable course of action: tearing down the posters. They are wrong. Vigilantes, we do not need your protection. HRL has a right to free expression...
...irrational trashing of “Elena posters” by students demonstrates once again the wisdom of Harvard Right to Life’s developing-baby poster campaigns. Those who favor legalized abortion often try to distract the abortion debate by agnostically temporizing about the status of the fetus and instead focusing solely on the social and economic situation of the mother. With this distraction in place, most people can tune out the abortion debate most of the time. This supposedly agnostic position is dishonest—the one-cell product of a human egg and a human sperm...
...might be afraid to tell their parents before the pregnancy becomes obvious. Outlawing the dilation and extraction procedure will not end these problems, nor will it end second and third trimester abortions. It will merely force women to seek dangerous, illegal abortions, possibly causing more pain to the fetus and the woman. The most effective way to make the incidence of late-term abortion zero is to make sure that women have easier access to early abortion, better medical coverage, and better sex education, not to outlaw it. SOPHIA P. SNYDER ’07 March...
...Elena posters” are the newest tactic of Harvard Right to Life. They feature a little fetus saying, “Oh, HI! I was just celebrating all my organs and me being 56 days alive!” I am not a fan. Here is my main problem with the posters: they don’t advertise anything. They don’t draw attention to a rally, or to a speaker, or to any kind of event; they are simply a statement of political belief. They don’t even say, “Feel enthusiastic...
...findings to Governor Rounds and the legislature last December. The task force report compares the experience of women who go to Planned Parenthood, the state?s primary abortion provider, with those who go to crisis pregnancy centers. It charges that women are ?misled? by abortion providers, who dehumanize the fetus (calling it ?tissue? or ?the contents of the uterus?) and do not reveal that ?the procedure will terminate the life of a human being.? An epidemic of remorse and depression results. At the crisis pregnancy centers, nearly a third of women arrive considering having an abortion, but barely...