Pro-life photo of the week: Student newspapers destroyed due to pro-life ad
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Via Campus Reform, October 3:
Dozens of Drake University student newspapers were vandalized last week after a pro-life advertisement upset an unknown perpetrator.
Austin Cannon, managing editor of The Times-Delphic, found 431 copies of his paper, apparently drenched in water, sitting in front of the newspaper’s office Thursday morning, an act of vandalism estimated at $200 worth of damage. Atop the pile was a single newspaper with a black circle drawn around an advertisement for AGAPE Pregnancy Resource Center, which offers free pregnancy tests, STD testing, and ultrasounds….
Cannon told Campus Reform that more than 1,000 copies of the paper were distributed around campus prior to the vandalism, meaning almost half of the papers were destroyed.
University president David Maxwell addressed faculty, staff, and students Friday in an email, calling the vandalism “antithetical” to Drake’s “core values.”
“This act goes beyond mere vandalism - it is an attempt to curtail First Amendment rights regarding free speech, and is thus antithetical to our core values as the Drake University community,” Maxwell wrote in the email. “[W]e should all be outraged by an act that not only entails the destruction of others’ property, but is intended to communicate a message in a manner that violates our sense of who we are and what we stand for as a university.”
Prior to the vandalism, Beth Younger, a professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at DU, wrote a letter to the editor, expressing concern with advertisements for AGAPE Pregnancy Resource Center. Such centers, she said are “largely fronts for anti-choice, anti-abortion organizations and they are known for providing misleading information to young women who may be facing an unplanned pregnancy.”
Younger urged the newspaper staff to publish a disclaimer alongside the ad “so young women won’t be fooled into thinking they can get free health care, when what they get is propaganda and harmful lies.”…
“It’s just a little disheartening to me because it doesn’t mean we support that organization, and we’ve run ads from Planned Parenthood in the past,” The Times-Delphic’s Editor-in-Chief, Courtney Fishman, said in an interview with KCCI. “So it’s interesting to me that people are upset about it, and they’re very welcome to be upset about it, but it’s upsetting that they’re vandalizing our property.”…
“It’s sad that it happened,” Brenda Knollenberg, executive director for AGAPE told Campus Reform. “I appreciate the openness of ‘if you don’t agree with something, to be able to voice that.’ I think that is what the United States was founded on…and I am grateful for that. I do think that sometimes more research has to go into people’s opinions just to make sure they have their facts correct.”
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.
Catholic schools, hospitals, clinics, and charities. The Little Sisters of the Poor. Pregnancy centers. Mandatory window warnings.
From all sides, the Culture of Death is attacking our charity and assistance. If they had their way, we would be arrested and prosecuted for performing charity illegally.
And yet, this vandalism will likely increase awareness and use of the pro-life resource center more than if the abortion zealots had just ignored the ad.
Ah yes, the professor of “gender and women’s studies” is upset. Of course she/he/it (don’t want to make any assumptions even if this persun goes by the name of Beth) is.
I think somebody ought to be interviewing Mizzzz Younger or see if this ‘professor (who ought to be ashamed for taking the money of hard-working parents while teaching such drivel as “women’s studies”) put her/his/its students up to the vandalism.
They need to keep their grubby hands off of our pro life signs articles crosses and so on. Whats wrong? Truth hurts? If they ever put their hands on me or anything that belonged to me I would not ever put up with it. Especially when they threw dog poop. I would tackle them down and smear it in their faces.
I always see pro-choice people complaining that pro-life people “only care about fetuses” and not the mother or the child after it is born, yet all the crisis pregnancy centers and charities would seem to attest against that sentiment.
However, they also despise these centers that help mothers of unplanned pregnancies, all while complaining that pro-life people don’t do enough/don’t care about the mother/child.
heather: “Especially when they threw dog poop. I would tackle them down and smear it in their faces.”
Precisely. Enough passively watching as they vandalize and assault. Twenty years ago, any act of defense would be painted by the media as the pro-lifers being violent. But we’re in the Internet/cell-phone-camera age now; they can’t get away with it so easily anymore.
Who do they think they are, helping women?!
What a great name & ad, good job AGAPE. I like how it doesn’t tell women they are poor, or victims, just asks a question and if their answer is yes, it gives them an answer. Very straight forward, with mass appeal.
The fact that it was vandalized is oddly, encouraging, because it says to me that it is affective if it is affecting the intolerant, who seam to hate women in crisis.
My my, the peaceful prolifers mentioning violence against others…”smearing feces in another persons face.” How very Christian of you……hypocrites.
Cause wanting to help women in crisis by not repeating the lie that liberation is had at the expense of your own child is, well, just so oppressive and patriarchal and misogynistic and …..
What else have I left out?
James..lol. Do you actually think I would allow someone get away with that?
It just clicked James A is another troll.
James Ashby: “My my, the peaceful prolifers mentioning violence against others…”smearing feces in another persons face.” How very Christian of you……hypocrites.”
Can’t take what you dish out, Jimbo? Wow, knock me over with a toilet brush…
Bmmg39 ty for the support. I remember this troll. on another site i told him it make him a sandwhich. Hes like a blip on the map. Childs play compared to what Im used to.
Way to go pro-choicers! Thanks for all the free attention and publicity for the Pregnancy Center! I’ll betcha this silly juvenile stunt will draw even more scared girls through Agape’s doors.
P.S. I hope whoever did this gets caught and forced to pay for all the ruined papers.