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...past two weeks, Harvard students opened their mailboxes to find a blue “opt-out” card as part of the Abortion Opt-Out Campaign of Harvard Right to Life (HRL). The initiative allows students to request a refund of the part of their Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) health insurance plan that funds elective abortions—one dollar per term...
Harvard University Health Services (UHS) gave out 128 refunds in the 2006-2007 academic year for students who objected to their money funding elective abortions, according to Melanie Green, a spokesperson for UHS. That number should rise. Jeffrey Kwong ’08-’09, president of HRL, said that his organization has collected over 400 waivers from undergraduates throughout this year...
Kwong is vice president of Harvard Right to Life (HRL), professes that abortion is murder, but has nonetheless elected to be the head of Students for Rudy Giuliani—a man who does not seem yet to have hit the precise position he will pretend to believe on abortion. In the past, and apparently today, Giulani has been for government funding of abortions, and he’s also given thousands of dollars to Planned Parenthood...
...promulgate bad interpretations of science and let women who have an abortion think that this caused their breast cancer when there is absolutely no evidence that it does,” Bernstein said. Jeffrey Kwong ‘09, vice president of Harvard Right to Life (HRL), said that while the HRL supports scientific research to better understand the effects of abortion, he finds a flaw in Michels’ study: that 93 percent of the women were premenopausal. “This means the period of study is too short to determine a link between abortion and breast cancer...
Despite the misdirection of ALL and others, it is encouraging to find that groups such as Feminists for Life (FFL) and Harvard Right to Life (HRL), of which I am a member, embrace a more constructive approach. Alongside students who disapprove of HRL’s boldness to display photos of a fetus at various stages of development are many who stop and consider a FFL poster that HRL has distributed: “They say I have a free choice, but without housing on campus for me and my baby, without on-site daycare, without maternity coverage...