One university after another is denying students who are pro-life, the right to form a club. The latest victims of this onslaught are the young students at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay Ontario. They have just been informed that their application has been denied because they are "too controversial." Defending the right to life of the most vulnerable has become too controversial for a university campus. What ever happened to Freedom of expression at institutes of higher learning? What about the "Free exchange of ideas"?To make things worse, each student must pay $50 or so off pocket for a mandatory membership in the very same union that denies him his freedom of association. The silver lining in all that is that a debate on whether or not a pro-life group should be "allowed" on campus, usually raises awareness of fetal rights issues among students and more of them start reconsidering the pro-abort dogmas that are being spread by the media, the radical professors and the "student union" establishment.
The students should not be shocked or surprised by this latest denial. It falls on the heals of identical decisions at Kelowna BC's UBC campus, North Vancouver's Capilano College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the list goes on. In total more than 20 universities across this country have denied, banned or in some way interfered with the freedom of speech and assembly of university students in recent years. These decisions are not so much being made by the institutions themselves as they are by the student governing bodies on campus. The student unions are affiliated with the Canadian Federation of Students who have a radical "pro-choice" policy when it comes to abortion. They will tolerate no opposition to abortion on their campuses to the extent of infringing on member students personal liberties guaranteed under the Canadian Charter.
Obviously, keeping their influence over students is vital for the pro-abortion activists and for the abortion industry as whole. Not only, because most of the women who resort to abortions are of a university age, but also because they wouldn't want to lose their influence over the youth. So they'll never lay down their arms voluntarily.
But it doesn't mean there's no way for the pro-life students to advance fetal rights on the university campuses. Here's my report on the National Campus Life Network meeting at the recent National Pro-Life Conference. Theresa Matters, NCLN Executive Director gave us a few great suggestions and delegates from various universities shared their experience. Yes, winning the pro-life battle on campus won't be easy. But easy doesn't mean impossible.
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