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Toba Spitzer (letter, May 3) is simply mistaken in saying that no Radcliffe Union of Students-sponsored speaker at their April 14 "teach-in" "openly admitted that an abortion kills a human being." Panelist Vilma DiBiase, director of counseling at the Crittendon Clinic, said: "Everyone knows that an abortion kills a human being." This sentiment was also echoed and repeated by various pro-choice people in the audience. It is after all, not surprising that this statement was made, because everyone knows that it is true...
There was indeed no discussion at that "teach-in," because RUS adhered strictly to its format, which allowed audience members only to ask the panelists questions, not state contrary views or conflicting facts. Moreover, it is quite strange that, when 80 percent of Americans favor abortion only in the cases of rape, incest and threat to the mother's life, and when more women than men oppose abortion (as Gallup polls have consistently shown over the last 10 years), all three RUS panelists supported abortion-on-demand. Spitzer admits that there is a lack of consensus and disagreement...
Last Wednesday 45 students staged a non-violent teach-in in the offices of the Harvard Corporation at 17 Quincy Street. Their action was an appropriate response to the Corporation's continued indifference to the concerns of a community dedicated to free and open discussion and pursuit of the truth. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism to ensure that students, faculty, alumni, and staff have input into the Corporation's decisions. The ACSR, the only institution related to the Corporation with any presense of representing community concerns, has served only as a lightning rod to deflect criticism from the Corporation itself...
...writing to alert the members of the Harvard community that there is an undergraduate organization that openly promotes, encourages, and applauds the killing of human beings as a means to attaining its ends. This group is the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). A week ago RUS sponsored a "teach-in" and "discussion" (but there was no discussion) on abortion, during which the proponents of abortion openly admitted that an abortion kills a human being, but said that abortion must nonetheless remain legal. One woman said "I believe abortion is no different from infanticide. But I'm pro-choice. Women must...
...BLSA might feel if a white student group invited a representative from the KKK to speak at Harvard? And how would it feel if in the third consecutive year of the KKK visit, Black students were invited only to observe and not to participate in a KKK "teach-in"? The point here is not to draw an exact analogy between the KKK and the PLO, but to underscore the importance of fairness and freedom of speech in the context of a controversial and emotionally-charged issue...