Thursday, April 26, 2012

Help support a pro-choice student under attack from her university administration and Fox News.

the-womanifesto:

An art student at my school, Western Kentucky University, is getting tons of national heat right now for her own backlash against a pro-life group. The group covered an entire set of bleachers with 4,000 crosses and from the art classroom windows you could see that it spelled out the word “LIFE.” They also targeted students walking by and asked them questions about abortion and had a board up that said, “How do you justify abortion?” This went on for a full week. She, I and many others at my school felt voiceless and bombarded. She responded with an art piece for her class, which was covering the crosses in condoms. The university police did not interfere as it was a freedom of speech, but now my school administration is demanding a public apology from her and does not support her actions. She has so far refused to apologize, but nationally, there is no one on her side, especially since Fox News got involved.

Please read this blog post by a gender and women’s studies professor at WKU for more details and educated insight. Show support and show this student and my school that she does not owe an apology. We’re trying to make this viral enough to where we can get Rachel Maddow to pay attention and speak out about it. Help spread the word and let’s overtake the bigoted anti-choice voices that are attacking this student right now.

Posted at 5:07 PM 1,319 notes Reblogged from abaldwin360 Tags: wku pro-choice fox news anti-choice abortion feminism feminist western kentucky university rachel maddow maddow women's studies reproductive rights human rights freedom of speech politics religion

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    SHE OWES AN APOLOGY. I don’t care HOW offensive a statement is, it is not ANYBODY’S place to interfere with it. MAKE...
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    Makes me SO MAD. Channel-boost. Mom is from Bowling Green, family is big on WKU. Fuuuuuuuu. Sign this petition!
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