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Harvard Right to Life (HRL) has just launched a vicious campaign against Harvard women. This is not a policy initiative campaign or an awareness campaign. It is a campaign aimed at intimidating pregnant college women into not seeking abortions. To take the edge off, HRL has sugar-coated their message by couching it in childish language with a quote from Dr. Seuss and identifying the fetus as a little girl. Even the name choice is not benign: “Natalie” is derived from the Latin word for “birthday?...
...HRL website schedule refers to this as “Natalie Postering,” which is a four-part event. The first poster let us know that Natalie is a girl and that she is growing. The third round tells us that on Day 49, Natalie’s skeleton has developed! Only time can tell what round four will bring—they come out today...
According to its mission statement, HRL is committed to “fostering an open dialogue” on the dignity of human life from conception through death and “increasing awareness to the Harvard community and beyond.” The Natalie campaign is not about awareness or education. Awareness posters inform students about pregnancy resource centers and remind them that abortion is not the only option. Slapping an oversized fetus on neon yellow paper, giving it a little girl’s name and using exclamation points is so inflammatory that it cannot qualify as educational...
...Really, how does one respond positively to a yellow fetus on their wall? The posters are astutely designed to pluck the heartstrings of a scared 19-year-old college girl who just found out that she’s three weeks pregnant. Natalie is aimed at her emotions, and HRL is going to make sure that her heart skips a beat at the thought of baby Natalie every time she gets on the elevator and every time she walks past a bulletin board on campus. And just to make sure that she’s good and scared, they?...
James E. Kruzer ’04, a government concentrator in Eliot House, is president of Harvard Right to Life (HRL). Melissa R. Moschella ’02, a social studies concentrator in Currier House, is a former president of HRL. This article does not necessarily reflect HRL’s official position...