{"id":59797,"date":"2015-02-19T16:18:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T21:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=59797"},"modified":"2015-02-19T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T21:18:31","slug":"at-the-university-of-victoria-women-have-the-right-to-an-abortion-the-right-to-think-for-themselves-apparently-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/at-the-university-of-victoria-women-have-the-right-to-an-abortion-the-right-to-think-for-themselves-apparently-not\/","title":{"rendered":"At the University of Victoria, women have the right to an abortion. The right to think for themselves? Apparently not."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of Victoria (“Uvic”) is among Canada\u2019s top ranked<\/a> academic institutions. It\u2019s also known<\/a> as a \u201cprogressive\u201d environment where, according to one graduate<\/a>, students learn \u201c\u2018how to think\u2019 rather than \u2018what to think.\u2019” Not everyone on campus agrees with this approach, however. That was evident last November when Uvic\u2019s pro-life group, Youth Protecting Youth<\/a>, organized a debate between philosophy professor Eike-Henner Kluge and pro-life activist Stephanie Grey<\/a>. While the event attracted students wishing to hear both sides of the issue, others felt that those wishes didn’t need to be respected.<\/p>\n

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Abortion supporters were angered that university officials would even allow a debate to happen. The pro-abortion Uvic Men\u2019s Circle<\/a> responded to the news by posing a thoughtful question on Facebook, asking, \u201cWhat the fuck, right?\u201d Such eloquence was followed by a call for disruption. On the day of the event, protesters tried to derail it with loud chants of \u201cno debate\u201d and \u201cfree speech\u201d (how the first demand fits with the second wasn’t explained).<\/p>\n