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...HRL’s opportunistic campaign seems almost understandable given its mission. The University’s position, however, is less explicable: In providing an opt-out option for abortion specifically, the University unduly elevates the moral claims of anti-abortionists over any other. Jehovah’s Witnesses have no right to opt out of blood transfusion fees, and religious individuals who do not believe in modern medicine are required to have health coverage despite their moral objections. In both of these cases, we as a community have decided that the availability of these procedures and services trumps...
...refused to pay delinquent poll taxes on the grounds that they would be used to support the Mexican-American War, he spent a night in jail. Harvard’s current conscientious objectors are treated a little differently. The Harvard Right to Life (HRL) campaign to encourage students to opt-out of the portion of their Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) insurance fees that fund elective abortions has ruffled more than a few feathers on campus. Some have argued the campaign—in the form of mass e-mails and opt-out cards delivered to student mailboxes?...
Therein lies the flaw in HRL’s campaign. In order to get students to opt out, it exaggerates the numbers and mischaracterizes the impact. Some students might even want the refund simply because it is “free money.” That being said, students should certainly know about the option to opt out and be free to do so if they so please and are fully informed about the refund and where it goes. Given that BCBS allows opting out, the awareness element of HRL’s campaign is reasonable. Its particular methods, however...
Students are certainly free to opt in or opt out of the elective abortion option, but they should strongly consider the possible implications of their decision to opt out of the fee. The decision is not simply a moral issue; the implications of such an action could have an effect on other controversial services that are offered not only by an insurance company, but also by the University at large...
...Proponents of gay marriage will be most effective when they stop alienating social conservatives and opt to highlight the ways in which their own aims are consistent with the latter’s values. It is not an adaptation of aims that is necessary, but rather an adoption of a strategy that privileges consensus over paranoid dogmatism. When this adoption comes to be, the country as a whole will benefit...