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GUELPH PRO-LIFE STUDENTS DENIED FREE SPEECH BY ABORTION IDEOLOGUES

Campus, local media, student association all cite "choice" - but censor pro-life views

GUELPH, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Guelph Right to Life Association president Jakki Jeffs has written to University of Guelph president Mordechai Rozanski claiming that campus newspapers and the student association are discriminating against pro-lifers. "The students, and whoever speaks out from the university, they speak about diversity," Ms. Jeffs says, "but when it comes to this issue, there's no debate," she told
reporters.

Dave Hauch, spokesman for the Central Student Association, has written that Jeffs' group, as "an anti-choice organization," is rightfully banned from campus directory listings. Hauch says the student association has "a very clear policy that women should have choice, and information to make their decision. We've promoted a pro-choice stance, which leaves the choice up to the woman."

But Jeffs responds that if that is the case, then pro-life groups should also be listed. "They should have both listed there," she says, if there is to be "choice."

Mandy Hiscocks, a member of the "editorial collective" at the Peak student newspaper, said content is decided upon by the collective. "If a submission is given to us, it must not be oppressive," she said. Hiscocks explains that Peak editors, "generally, are intolerant of what [pro-life groups] do that is oppressive. They're infringing on women's rights to choose."

In a baffling January 4, 2003 editorial, the Guelph Mercury accused pro-lifer Jeffs of censorship. "Like many calls for censorship, Jeffs' appeal seems an act of desperation reserved for activists who realize their ability to convince using rational debate is beginning to severely wane," said the editorial.

To read Guelph Mercury coverage see:
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/news_03010484626.html

For the Mercury's editorial see:
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/editorials/news_editorials_03010485340.html

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