Pro-life vid of day: Pro-life display angers Canadian students
by Kelli
News surfaced this week of the rejection of a pro-life student group on a Canadian college campus.
In yet another example of how Canada’s institutions of higher learning are becoming more hostile to free pro-life speech, University of Alberta students protested an upcoming pro-life display, featuring images of abortion victims, which was to be displayed in their quad. The main point of contention seemed to be that some believed the display could be upsetting to women who have had abortions or miscarriages.
One student even went so far as to say that she had an abortion and abortion is horrible, so women shouldn’t be further traumatized by having to actually look at it.
With all the hubbub about how the display might “infringe on students’ rights,” a gay pride parade was set to happen on campus simultaneously, and some students planned to block the pro-life display so the gay pride parade participants wouldn’t have to listen to the free speech of others, which might somehow dampen their festivities.
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By the way – the Latin phrase on the University of Alberta’s seal, pictured above, means “Whatsoever things are true.”
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
every time I read or hear of pro-abortion people trying to stop anyone seeing what it’s actually LIKE I’m put in mind of Ted Hughes’s poem, which many here will know, which is about the WWI poet Wilfred Owen, who carried photos of the trenches with him when on leave, to show people what it was like. The poem takes an oblique look at its subject through an even earlier episode. Basically the story is, seeing what it’s like changes you.
Wilfred Owen’s Photographs
When Parnell’s Irish in the House
Pressed that the British Navy’s cat-
O-nine tails be abolished, what
Shut against them? It was
Neither Irish nor English nor that
Decade, but of the species.
Predictably, Parliament
Squared against the motion. As soon
Let the old school tie be rent
Off their necks, and give thanks, as see gone
No shame but a monument–
Trafalgar not better known.
‘To discontinue it were as much
As ship not powder and cannonballs
But brandy and women’ (Laughter). Hearing which
A witty profound Irishman calls
For a ‘cat’ into the House, and sits to watch
The gentry fingering its stained tails.
Whereupon . . .
quietly, unopposed,
The motion was passed.