BC students lie on behalf pro-abortion event

BC students lie on behalf pro-abortion event

To its credit, Boston College doesn’t allow an official student organization that promotes abortion. So when a group of pro-abortion students wanted campus space to hold an event featuring a Planned Parenthood official and three pro-abortion faculty members, the university said No. That’s when one of the faculty members lied to the administration to acquire the space under false pretenses. The Boston Globe calls it a “ruse.” Imagine if the situation had been reversed and it had been a pro-life group. Think it would still be a “ruse”?

So what will the consequences before the professor who lied? How will the university respond? And more importantly what is the university doing—beyond saying, it’s the rules we have to live with because of the big, bad Vatican—to change the minds of the pro-abortion students and faculty? The Globe engages in more intellectual dishonesty in portraying this as a clash between academic freedom and adherence to religious principle. There is no such thing as unrestricted academic freedom. Certain kinds of academic inquiry are out of bounds. Anti-Semitic or racists speakers would not be tolerated, so why should anyone tolerate pro-abortion speakers?

And let’s be honest, this isn’t about academics. It’s about advocacy and activism. This is about making sure abortion remains legal.

No one is forcing these kids to attend Boston College. If they don’t want to study in a Catholic environment, there are hundreds of public and private colleges that will accommodate them. In fact, I’d have more respect for them if they actually had to sacrifice anything for what they believe in. You know, like the pro-life kids at predominantly pro-abortion secular schools.

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