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Communist-Like Anti-Christianity at University of Victoria Student Society

VICTORIA, February 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A motion put forward by the student pro-life club, Youth Protecting Youth, at the University of Victoria has failed to overturn the official pro-abortion policy of the U-Vic student society. The BC Catholic has reported that the club had been unable to get its pro-life message out to students for years since their posters were routinely torn down as soon as they were put up and the student society of U-Vic has an official policy in favour of legalized abortion.

YPY vice president Del Myers, in his last year at the university, decided to try to remove the official anti-life policies and had the support of the Catholic Students Society and the evangelical Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. The motion, however, failed five to one at the February 15th society meeting.

The Martlet, the newspaper of the student society, retaliated with extensive coverage of the motion’s opponents and ran a column next to the story advocating the abolition of all religion in society. In it, YPY was accused of being a front for “certain Christian sects and other conservative groups” who were waging a campaign in Canada and the U.S. on hard-won abortion rights. As such, the unsigned Martlet editorial said, members and their ilk would be permitted to bear their own children if they wished, but they should not presume to raise the matter as a public issue. “Please keep your views private,” it sternly advised.

The accompanying article on the danger of religion used many of the most primitive accusations against ‘organized religion’. It said that religion was “incompatible with the most rudimentary scientific beliefs,” and that it would push the world to the brink of “something truly catastrophic.” The article then proposed eradicating religion by “purging the belief in religion and God.” No suggestions were made as to how to accomplish this without force.

The meeting drew a crowd of 500, not all of whom were against the motion. One young woman, who called herself pro-life, wondered where the protections were for her views. A young man said that once he might have agreed with the majority, but as a husband and father he had changed his mind.

“Our culture is so absorbed in choice nobody knows any way to think about abortion other than as a reproductive right. We need to reframe the debate and reach out to the mushy middle of society who wouldn’t have an abortion themselves,” commented Natalie Sanesh of the Vancouver-based Canadian Centre for Bio-ethical
Reform

“What kind of a liberation is it that forces women to kill their offspring in order to be equal to men?” said Sanesh.

(With files from Pro-Life E-News and the BC Catholic)

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