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...original form, the proposal was a specific response to claims by anti-abortion group Harvard Right to Life (HRL) that its “Natalie” posters, which depict a fetus in progressive stages of development, are being widely vandalized...
Daniel L. Tapia ’05, a member of HRL, said at the meeting that Elgin K. Eckert, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Romance Languages, admitted to tearing down a poster in Boylston Hall...
...relevance for when they need to make life-and-death decisions such as whether to abort a child. As caring peers it is our duty to inform our fellows so that they can make informed decisions concerning their lives and the lives of their children. This is what HRL has been doing and what we shall continue...
Arguments that support abortion rights take as a given that a fetus is not a person. HRL takes the opposite position. While our opponents find a fetus’ lack of personhood obvious and try to squelch debate on the topic by focusing exclusively on the rights of a mother, we think fetal personhood is a question that needs to be carefully examined by voters (the target audience for the postering campaign) in order for them to make an informed voting decision. Consideration of fetal personhood is also important to any woman considering aborting a fetus. Our posters seek...
...told that a solution that centers on women means that a woman is fairly informed of all the options available to her. HRL does not feel that pregnant Harvard women are fairly informed of their situations and options. First, they lack the information we present in the Natalie campaign. Second, they must deal with the lies and misinformation that the supporters of abortion rights have spread for decades. We feel it is our moral duty to speak up whenever it is clear that the common knowledge is wrong. For example, one abortion urban myth is that for the first several...