As a member of Bama Students for Life, I would like to address the issues of rhetoric and respect. The Crimson White’s editorial asking BSFL to “examine our language” was released after The CW had read BSFL’s press release. How many CW staff members saw the display and came and spoke to one of the apologists at the display? If [...]

  Abortion is a hot topic, no doubt. Though Johnathan Speer and I seem to be on the opposite side of the debate, we actually agree on many things. We both disagree with any reference to abortion as lynching. It is not the right word. I would not bake a cake and call it steak; we need to call things [...]

If you look at past social injustices, including slavery and the Holocaust, graphic images were used to convey the humanity of the victims as well as the injustice of the crime. In the same way, Bama Student’s For Life used images from past genocides to parallel the current genocide, abortion, in our country. The complaints students have about the gruesome [...]

Much has been made of the graphic displays being used by Bama Students for Life. As an undergraduate, I was president of a pro-life student group at another institution. Our group chose not to use the same images. However, I am fairly ambivalent to the message-spreading tactics of specific student groups, so long as their methods are legal. That’s because [...]

“Abortion is murder. Abortion is genocide. Abortion can damage a woman’s body for life.” It is these statements that anti-abortion groups would have people believe in order to have people support their cause. But to the logical thinker and the well-informed one can obviously tell the impacts of abortion to the fetus and mother aren’t nearly as great an impact [...]