{"id":292957,"date":"2023-06-13T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=292957"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:46:42","slug":"duke-university-inappropriate-email-student-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/duke-university-inappropriate-email-student-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke University sends ‘inappropriate’ pro-abortion e-mail to entire campus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A law student at Duke University is speaking out after school administrators sent a campus-wide e-mail to all students criticizing North Carolina’s Senate Bill 20, which would protect preborn children from abortion after 12 weeks gestation.<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 20, which was enacted after state legislators overrode<\/a> Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, takes effect on July 1. Yet Duke sent a statement to all students criticizing the bill, which student Paige Brasington called inappropriate in an article written for the Duke Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The May 17 email to students from Duke Student Affairs stated that Duke was concerned about the law banning elective abortion in North Carolina after 12 weeks,” she said. “Second-trimester abortion, euphemistically called ‘reproductive health services’ in the email, is said to be ‘evidence-based, essential healthcare.’ The email leaves out that the law allows abortion without any gestational limitation to save the life of the mother. It also leaves out that the 12-week limit does not apply in cases of fetal anomaly or rape.”<\/p>\n