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...disappointed with the recent column by Meredith B. Osborn ’02 (“Arguing Abortion, Responsibly,” March 15), particularly the parts concerning the “Abortion: The Legal and Political Landscape” policy group I am leading at the IOP. Osborn points out that one of the initial outreach e-mails I sent mentioned “tentative plans...to invite two speakers, a convicted abortion clinic bomber and someone as far to the Left on the issue as possible.” However, I made it very clear to her, after...
This week the Institute of Politics (IOP) began a study group on abortion entitled, “Abortion: The Legal and Political Landscape.” In an e-mail sent out to students urging them to attend, the study group’s chair, Bolek Z. Kabala ’03, who is also a Crimson editor, wrote, “Tentative plans right now are to invite two speakers, a convicted abortion clinic bomber and someone as far to the Left on the issue as possible.” Abortion is at a critical juncture in America today...
...Kabala and the IOP want to sponsor a debate on abortion that is beneficial to participants on both sides of the issue, they should not consider the widespread implications of banning abortion. They should bring in medical professionals who can speak to the issue of the intrusion of government in medicine. There is a whole medical ethics debate about abortion which is often ignored when people start calling fetuses “babies.” This debate has many corollaries in and implications for the debate about cloning and stem cell research, and as such demonstrates that abortion...
...crowded Institute of Politics (IOP) event, “Future of the Republican Party” focused on the ways the United States’ war on terrorism could transform the Republican party, then moved on to a host of possible changes in the Republican party’s platform...
...votes against you, then they gleefully vote against you, and then they exuberantly vote against you,” said former Senator and IOP director Alan K. Simpson...