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...County, Calif., Grizzle grew up with strong conservative values. “At home, everybody is conservative and basically everyone is Christian too,” she says. From her first days at Harvard, Grizzle dove into activities that allowed her to promote these values: Harvard Right to Life (HRL), the Harvard Republican Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, and the Harvard Salient all count her as an active member. Grizzle might be best known for spearheading HRL’s highly controversial Elena campaign, a series of anti-abortion posters that pictured a developing fetus speaking as a young...
...will not be extended to the funding of Plan B, Gharib wrote. Plan B does not abort embryos implanted in the uterus but rather prevents ovulation and possibly fertilization and implantation, according to the Food and Drug Administration’s Web site. President of Harvard Right to Life (HRL) Mary E. Collins ’08 said her organization was ambivalent about the drug’s availability. “At this point, HRL is not focusing on trying to get UHS to change its procedures regarding Plan B,” she said. She added that although...
...editors: Re: “Twice Victimized,” op-ed, Nov. 2: The recent call by the co-directors of Harvard Students for Choice for “limits” on postering by Harvard Right to Life (HRL) only further confirms me in my belief that those who claim to support free expression, except when it is hurtful, quite simply do not get it. The price of living in an open society is that we are liable to find ourselves contradicted, offended, and distressed at every turn. We pay this price because we are aware...
...rights are a divisive and emotionally-charged issue. But HRL’s posters, which charging rape victims who have had abortions with murder, go beyond the pale of civilized debate. By stating that these women sentence their fetuses to “the death penalty,” HRL displays a total disregard for the emotional state of rape victims—both those who have had abortions and those who have not—on Harvard’s campus. Many rape victims, even years after their ordeal, experience Rape Trauma Syndrome (RTS), which can cause them...
...call on HRL to educate without endangering students’ mental health. Only then will the abortion debate become the rational, respectful discussion which all abortion-related organizations should seek to create...