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York U calls for absolute free speech…

March 11, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

…at McMaster.  

Recently, the York Federation of Students cancelled an on-campus abortion debate just five hours before its scheduled start time. Gilary Massa, vice-president equity for YFS, told Maclean’s the debate would be discussing taking away women’s rights. She also compared an abortion debate to one about whether or not beating women should be allowed.

But don’t go thinking the YFS is pro-censorship. The day after the debate’s cancellation, Massa led York delegates to McMaster University to protest that institution’s infringement on free speech.

The YFS and several other student unions rallied to condemn McMaster for censoring a controversial poster containing the phrase “Israel Apartheid” and a violent graphic. The various student unions called for McMaster to allow absolute free speech on its campus.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: , ban debate, Freedom of speech, Gilary Massa, York University

I’m gestating on this one…give me a moment

March 6, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

What a letter.

I wasn’t sure how to title this post: “No need to debate abortion, but a definitive need to speak clear English” or how about “Pro-choice letter writer admits we are all just in various states of gestation…the quintessential pro-life point” or finally, “Yes! I’m in a state of gestation too.”

One small point on this letter to the editor: A debate can’t occur in isolation, in someone’s mind. That’s not a debate, that’s solitary contemplation. And women and men don’t contemplate abortion unless they are challenged to do so. Let me reiterate a point I’ve made before: An unexpected pregnancy is a very bad time to contemplate one’s views on abortion for the very first time.

Muriel Beauroy’s views are profoundly anti-woman, and I might add, contrary to making an informed choice.  

But keep up the good work, incoherent pro-choicers! Only makes my job a whole lot easier.

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Brigitte scratches her head in acute puzzlement:

To those who bemoan the conscience of many women on this matter, I would simply remind them that at any given moment vast numbers of women are in a state of gestation, visibly or not, to term or not. This is quite natural and private.

So we don’t need to bemoan the conscience (or, more aptly, lack thereof) of women because vast numbers of them are gestating even as we speak? Well, if that’s the pro-choice position, things are looking up indeed.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: , ban debate, Muriel Beauroy, National Post, York University

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