Student Governments at Several Schools Vote to Deny Funding to Campus Groups Opposing Abortion
Donald DeMarco wrties in the March 4-10 edition of the National Catholic Register:
Student governments at several schools have voted to deny funding and services to any campus group that opposes abortion. Pro-life students are nonetheless obliged to provide financial support for all other student activities. This attitude makes it abundantly clear that the so-called “pro-choice” people do not know the first thing about choice.My Comments:
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The presence of pro-life students on a college campus represents an invaluable asset for choice. In providing information and reasoned argumentation, pro-life students are helping certain women to make a choice rather than a guess on so vital a matter as abortion.
By a strange perversion of thought, in order to join the “pro-choice” orthodoxy, one must be resolutely anti-choice.
The students who voted to outlaw funding for pro-life activities are neither pro-choice nor pro-education. They are not even students, since a student is one who “desires learning.”
They are pro-abortion, and in order to defend that position, they find themselves opposing both knowledge and choice, while shrouding themselves in darkness and fiercely dedicating themselves to discrimination.
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I hadn't heard about this. Does anyone know which schools he's talking about?
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posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:05 AM
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I've not heard of abject funding denials, although pro-life groups are regularly funded to the tune of hundreds or thousands less than the campus pro-abortion groups. That said, I can't see the complete denial of funding being legal if its a public university.
I did a Google search...looks like a university in Canada did this:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ae49adbf-8f14-4f93-9341-f9b3ec047a8c&k=8324
Haven't found anything else yet, but I'll let you know if I do. As to legality, well...it depends on the jurisdiction. With Canada's legal idiosyncrasies, I couldn't hazard a guess as to whether it would be permissible.
"Students registered on campus pay a Student Organization Resource Fund fee each term to support the Student Legal Service and to help fund programs or services of registered student organizations. A student who does not wish to support SORF programs may receive a refund of the SORF fee by presenting his or her validated ID card to the cashiers at 100A Henry Administration Building during the refund period. See the current Class Schedule for further details at www.oar.uiuc.edu/current/financial/tuition_details.html#fees."
Back in 1979 a group of radicals took control of the SORF (Student Organization Resource Fund) board at the U of I. They refused to fund our student pro-life group L.I.F.E. (Life Is For Everyone) or any groups they perceived as "conservative". We spearheaded a refund campaign and convinced 46% of the students to obtain refunds. Before this only about 10% of students bothered to request a refund. This crashed the SORF budget, and the board had to slash their allocations. Next year, in coalition with conservative groups, fraternities and sororities, the rads had been very anti-Greek in their funding, we defeated the rads and took control of Sorf. The student pro-life and pro-abort groups received equal funding that year, since we refused to play their dirty game of depriving our opponents of funds.
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