University of Free Speech

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Where does free speech begin? Does it start with pro-feminist movements pushing for continued support of 90,000 terminated pregnancies a year?

Or is free speech the ability to advertise counseling services for women suffering depression?

Once again, the debate has hit the fan with the University of Queensland banning a Catholic student group (Newman Society) for 12 months for advertising support for women in strife.

It makes my blood boil when I hear of the battering people get when trying to stand up for all things life.
The petite girls at the Newman Society stall were promoting help for women suffering post-traumatic stress as a result of terminated pregnancies and they got the boot!

As reported on The Australian website, union president Mr Joshua Young said the University of ‘free choice’ voted 15 years ago to support women in their rights to choose abortion.

“I know the Newman Society thinks the union is being heavy handed, but the student union voted in 1993 for free, safe abortion on demand.”

All I can say is they’re just lucky their parents weren’t ‘pro-choice’ (anti-lifers).

It’s been proven (although not agreed by some) that the nightmares and post-traumatic stress of an abortion takes a tremendous toll on a would-have-been mother.

A report in the London Daily Mail said abortion is the new contraception; saying 1,300 British women who admitted to having an abortion, claimed it was at least their fourth time.

I think if we found out the Japanese were ripping calves from the womb of pregnant humpback whales, we wouldn't be as complacent as we are about terminated pregnancies.

The federal baby bonus was meant to encourage an incline in the Australian population, but no one’s questioned why one in every four Australian feotuses don’t make it out alive.

It’s all very well to encourage a woman to make her own choice, but who’s there to pick up the pieces? The Newman Society? The Priceless Life Centre? Of course not, these help lines have been kicked out of universities like Galileo.

I find it strange that for decades, the men and women campaigning for life have been called ANTI-abortion, whilst feotus killers get labelled PRO-choice.
Maybe we should take note of our Slovak counterparts, who just recently eradicated abortion, (except in the case of a woman’s life being at risk).

Jana Tutkova, a spokeswoman for the Centre of Bioethical Reform (CBR Europe), says their successful campaign was based on airing out the dirty laundry of abortion.

“No one with a functioning conscience who sees these images can support abortion," she said.

Until then, it looks like onward Christian soldier for the rest of us. But hey… there’s a whole lot of trees we should be saving before we even think about the babies... right?

By Josh Bavas

Related Links:

PULSE: http://www.myspace.com/pulseqld

Newman Society: http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=7175

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23700857-5006786,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=539728&in_page_id=1774

http://qutnews.qut.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=543&Itemid=1