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College Students Demand Abortion Clinic on Campus: “It’s Important to Do Well Academically”
lifenews.com ^ | April 6, 2016 | Micaiah Bilger

Posted on 04/06/2016 9:25:22 AM PDT by Morgana

A vocal group of students at the University of California Berkeley is demanding the university use taxpayer dollars to fund an abortion clinic on campus.

LifeNews reported the UC Berkeley student government approved a resolution in March urging administrators to provide free abortions through the university health services. The students claim that better access to abortion will help female students to succeed.

However, not everyone is supportive of the on-campus abortion clinic. Members of the UC Berkeley Students for Life club said they were horrified by the proposal.

“This is exactly the kind of callous attitude that forces students to choose between their child and their education, which no student should have to do,” the club said in a statement. “The Students for Life club at Berkeley is dedicated to not only educating their peers on the atrocity of abortion but also offering tangible resources for pregnant and parenting students. We are willing and ready to support these students facing unplanned pregnancies so that they aren’t forced to choose between their child and their education.”

The pro-life group offers tangible resources for pregnant and parenting students through the Pregnant on Campus program.

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University administrators also seem unwilling to give in to the abortion activists’ demands. A spokesperson told CBS 5 in San Francisco that while the university supports women’s access to abortion, they believe there are plenty of medical professionals in the area already providing abortions.

WND reports that there are two Planned Parenthood facilities 3.7 miles and 6.6 miles from campus.

Aanchal Chugh, who sponsored the resolution, told Campus Reform she does not think students should have to pay for abortions. She said the money to pay for abortions on campus should come from administrators’ paychecks. The conservative news report also noted that because UC Berkeley is a public school, tax dollars would be used to fund the abortion clinic.

“The resolution does not expect students to pay for these services as I, and those who voted for it, believe that health is a right not a privilege,” Chugh said. “The university should be providing this right to all students.”

“We feel that student health is something that the administration has not been focused on,” Chugh told the CBS affiliate. “And it’s important for students to do well academically.”

On Facebook, Chugh also blasted people who oppose the measure: “Those who are condemning my bill because it is ‘immoral’ – having the right to live a healthy life is NOT immoral and every student should have access to safe and accessible abortions especially because being a student at Cal is already so demanding. […] This is a womxn’s [sic] issue, a students’ issue, and a humxn [sic] issue. If you do not support abortions, don’t get one.”

However, the Students for Life group on campus contended that the university’s primary function is education, not abortion.

“To suggest that they take a pay cut to fund student abortions is absurd,” the group said. “The student government at Berkeley exemplifies the lack of support and empowerment of women that is rampant throughout the abortion rights movement. Abortion is degrading to women, and the bill expresses a mentality that a woman’s ability to bear children is a crisis rather than an empowering act and a great contribution to society. That is not only dangerous and hurtful, but it stigmatizes pregnant and parenting students on campus.”

A push for more abortions is exactly what college campuses don’t need. Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion business in the nation, regularly targets college campuses to recruit volunteers, staff and clients. They also build many of their abortion facilities close to college campuses.

Through the Students for Life of America’s Pregnant on Campus initiative, students at Berkeley and other campuses across the U.S. are working to provide material and emotional support so that pregnant students do not feel forced to choose between continuing their education and raising their child.


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KEYWORDS: abortion; campus; campuslife; college; moralabsolutes; prolife; snowflakes; studenthealth; studentlife
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When did higher education in this country become such a cesspool?
1 posted on 04/06/2016 9:25:22 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
“The resolution does not expect students to pay for these services as I, and those who voted for it, believe that health is a right not a privilege,” Chugh said. “The university should be providing this right to all students.”

There is no such thing as a right if it must be provided by another person's labors.

2 posted on 04/06/2016 9:29:10 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: Morgana

If it’s important to do well academically, keep your knees together and study more.


3 posted on 04/06/2016 9:31:44 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Morgana
It's been an IMMORAL COLLECTIVIST cesspool for over 100 years!

MEMO TO THE HORNY YOUNG FEMALE SNOWFLAKES ON CAMPUS: KEEP YOUR LEGS TOGETHER!!!!

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This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!

4 posted on 04/06/2016 9:31:53 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: DuncanWaring

“If it’s important to do well academically, keep your knees together and study more.”

Amen.


5 posted on 04/06/2016 9:32:40 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Hillary

BE SURE TO TELL THE MURDERING LITTLE BITCHES YOU WON’T PUNISH THEM FOR KILLING THEIR BABIES EVEN IF ABORTION IS LEGAL.

ITS NOT WHAT PRO LIFE DOES YOU KNOW


6 posted on 04/06/2016 9:35:50 AM PDT by wardaddy (is Cruz last name a coincidence or a blessing or is he the anti Christ?)
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To: Huskrrrr; DuncanWaring

I would have said “pick a major other than ‘women’s studies’ and carry 15 hours a semester” but that’s just me.


7 posted on 04/06/2016 9:35:55 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Can’t they just get up early and head to Walgreens for the Day After Pill?

Poor little horny Snowflakes.


8 posted on 04/06/2016 9:38:20 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: DuncanWaring

I would make four significant observations about kids and universities.

1. You have only four lousy years to glean and gain as much information as possible for your degree. If anything is prioritized on your list higher than education...something is wrong.

2. College is not a social experiment. If you fail to realize that....you don’t understand it’s purpose.

3. If you’ve got a professor or lecturer who doesn’t seem that bright....you are burning up your money in a wasteful fashion.

4. The entire value of that stupid certificate is that it gets you in the front door of various companies and organizations, who pay a fair bit more than McDonalds. If you do anything in that four year period to jeopardize the graduation slip....why did you bother with this in the first place?


9 posted on 04/06/2016 9:39:22 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Morgana

“”The students claim that better access to abortion will help female students to succeed.””

You’re absolutely right. How on earth did they ever get into the university without a brain? “Provide and pay for an abortion for me and I’ll show the world how successful I can be.”

Mercy!!! Protect us from the idiots please....


10 posted on 04/06/2016 9:40:42 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Morgana

How about these petulant little snowflakes get some mandatory classes on personal responsibility? Or is that outside of their comprehension or capability to reason? Or has rational thought been outlawed in schools now?

This is the prime reason why government tuition assistance should be eliminated. The meritocracy racket needs to be shut down.


11 posted on 04/06/2016 9:42:19 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Morgana

[[“It’s Important to Do Well Academically”]]

Important for Who? The aborted Child?

[[“The resolution does not expect students to pay for these services as I, and those who voted for it, believe that health is a right not a privilege,” Chugh said.]]

Yeah? And i have a new resolution- that anyone who robs a bank NOT be arrested tried and convicted for it because after all, begin rich and financially comfortable is a ‘right’, not a privilege using the same asinine logic Chugh uses


12 posted on 04/06/2016 9:44:04 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Morgana

And it needs to be gender neutral.


13 posted on 04/06/2016 9:44:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Morgana

Sickening little bast-rds!

They want birth control pills (Sandra Fluck) and now they want tax money to clean out their mess.


14 posted on 04/06/2016 9:46:19 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Morgana

When the little darlings aren’t being raped with the “rape culture” on campus they’re banging like rabbits. Must be tough being a woman on campus.


15 posted on 04/06/2016 9:49:35 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Morgana

Hey, geniuses, there are ways to prevent pregnancy. If you are smart enough for university you should be smart enough to use birth control.


16 posted on 04/06/2016 9:51:50 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Morgana

Just put in a self-serve cyanide dispensary. Problems solved.


17 posted on 04/06/2016 9:52:07 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: DuncanWaring

lol.

on a serious note, the women I know who’ve had abortions were in no shape for college classes afterwards.

They were mental wrecks. Some stayed that way. it was awful.

BTW, good point. Not having intercourse makes it REALLY hard t conceive :)


18 posted on 04/06/2016 9:52:24 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Morgana

You shouldn’t be admitted to college if you don’t know how to prevent an unwanted pregnancy.

That’s high school biology.


19 posted on 04/06/2016 9:55:59 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Morgana

‘“The resolution does not expect students to pay for these services as I, and those who voted for it, believe that health is a right not a privilege,” Chugh said’

Well, if that is true, then we should forcibly prevent you from getting an abortion, to protect your “right”, since abortion can only harm your health, it can’t improve it (barring extremely rare cases like ectopic pregnancies).


20 posted on 04/06/2016 10:02:15 AM PDT by Boogieman
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