Steve Macias is the West Coast Field Agent for Students for Life of America.
March 23, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thanks be to God for a major pro-life victory at Sierra College this week! College President Duncan and his office took a strong pro-life stand against an exclusively pro-abortion forum by refusing to speak and disqualifying the event from receiving any school or state funds. The actions came down after event organizers refused to meet the administration’s demands for a fair and balanced event.
We need to thank the administration for standing for equality and to recognize that the pro-abortion advocates who are organizing this event are not actually “pro-choice” but “pro-abortion.”
The event is now laughable, and will largely be ignored by the student body as the extreme fringe event that it is. Many of us believe college campuses to lean politically liberal, but this event is so absolutely outrageous that even the administrators refused to lend it any credibility.
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These types of events are geared at lining the pockets of those in the abortion industry, not reaching out to women who are struggling to make difficult life-changing decisions.
The college has decided that:
– All sources of taxpayer funding have been withdrawn from the event.
– The school has revoked all official affiliation with the event.
– The President’s Office has decided not to sponsor the event’s lunch as previously planned.
College President Duncan has decided to withdraw from appearing at the event and has refused the invitation to speak.
Sierra College administrators acknowledge that this is a one-sided panel, so they are already organizing a school-sanctioned, actual debate regarding abortion for April 16th in the large theater on campus. We are still waiting to hear whether the pro-abortion advocates on campus are willing to actually defend killing the human life in the womb in a debate format.
See President of the Board of Trustees Aaron Klein’s’ personal statement here “True Diversity Requires Balanced Perspective”.
Sacramento 40 Days for Life leader Wynette Sills is urging area pro-lifers to join her in attending the forum. Sills has noted that one panelist is abortion business director Shauna Heckert who provides “6,000 abortions each year, which would be 20 per day…” at the Sacramento area facilities.
If you wish to visit the campus to stand up and ask the tough question these abortion advocates refuse to face, the forum is Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 12:30 pm. Address below.
When
Mar 22, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Where
Sierra College
Rocklin Campus T (Dietrich Theatre)
5000 Rocklin Rd., Rocklin, CA 95677
To send a thank you to President Duncan, contact:
Jene Hallam, Executive Assistant, President’s Office
[email protected]