This has happened in Ireland in the past also.
Life Soc distance themselves from anti-abortion group
NUI Galway’s FREE Student Newspaper
Volume 6 Issue 5 Monday November 21 2005
The Irish pro-life student group Ultrasound will be visiting NUI
Galway on Thursday, November 24 as part of their ‘Revelation’
tour, which will see the group visit six Irish universities in eight
days. The event is not sponsored or endorsed by the NUIG Life
Society, who in an email circulated to members said that, while
they generally agree with the principles of Ultrasound, they do
not necessarily agree with their methods.
The group has been criticised
for what some see as its graphic
use of images in its posters,
as well as its hard-line campaigning.
Speaking at the visit will be
American Gianna Jessen, who
suffers from cerebral palsy as a
result of a failed saline infusion
abortion about two months
before she was born.
Despite
her disability, she has toured
both the USA and the rest of
the world and has testified
before US Congress on abortion
issues. She claims that she
should be blind, burned, and
dead. She also argues that, if
abortion is truly a woman’s
right, then many feminists
would rather see her dead.
The tour will see 15 members
of Ultrasound giving talks
throughout the day, with Ms
Jessen addressing the
O’hÉocha theatre at 7pm on
November 24. Admission is free.
The room was locked and Gianna was forced to give her talk outside in the corridor to hundreds of people who turned up for the talk. The pro-life society were the ones who phoned campus security.It was quite remarkable.
The situation is much improved with good people involved in that pro-life society these days.