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Since the “Little Natalie” poster campaign began last fall to educate Harvard students with factual representations of a baby’s development before birth, hundreds of posters have been torn down as Harvard Right to Life (HRL) members sat back in frustration. This blatant oppression of free speech, however, has recently been dealt with by the Undergraduate Council in a recent meeting to discuss the intolerance towards the posters. The council passed a bill supporting measures for reimbursing organizations like HRL for all posters torn down by students seeking to silence other opinions...
...face the similar horrible fate of losing their child. No woman who has suffered a miscarriage would wish it upon another—the death of one’s baby constitutes one of the most painful experiences a mother could endure. It is for this reason that HRL works to spread information to better inform other mothers, and the student body in general, about the facts of a baby before it is born so that the pain felt by these women can be avoided...
...Sunday, the Undergraduate Council took action on behalf of those groups whose issue advocacy campaigns have met with vandalism. The original resolution specifically referenced the Harvard Right to Life (HRL), whose “Natalie” campaign posters have been consistently torn down across the campus. These references were amended out, and the final resolution, which passed 28-10-5, spoke out for all groups on campus—including Students for Choice and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance—whose campaigns have faced similar defacement...
...heard. The battle the University and the council must ultimately fight is one of persuasion—to convince students that the correct way to fight the message of posters is not to tear them down, but to put up their own. Fortunately, most students who fiercely disagree with HRL have already taken this sensible route, retaliating with their own opinions through all outlets of Harvard’s marketplace of ideas. Although the council’s resolution is not without flaws, it nonetheless reaffirms this notion of free expression—a worthy position whatever the circumstance...
After exhaustive debate and a parade of amendments, the council also removed all mention of HRL due to some members’ objections that other groups’ posters have been vandalized as well...