Dr. Sally Jacobsen shown with The Sphinx in London
Posted on 04/15/2006 5:17:19 PM PDT by rhema
Highland Heights, KY -- A Northern Kentucky University professor who destroyed a pro-life display against abortion and encouraged her students to vandalize it as well is defending her actions. Dr. Sally Jacobsen, a British literature professor, called the display "silly" and said her free speech rights allowed her and others to trash the display. As LifeNews.com reported on Thursday, Jacobson and several students from her class vandalized a pro-life display of hundreds of crosses that the campus pro-life group had set up earlier in the week.
The professor and her students were caught on camera and seen by other witnesses trashing the pro-life display.
Jacobson admitted to the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper that she and nine of her students engaged in the vandalism.
"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said.
She told the newspaper she had "no comment" as to whether she was involved, but a reporter form the NKU student newspaper caught Dr. Jacobson on camera.
Jacobson told the Enquirer she was upset by the pro-life display which she labeled a "slap in the face" to women who might be considering "the agonizing and very private decision to have an abortion."
The professor claimed it wasn't clear who put up the cross display, but members of Northern Right to Life, the campus pro-life group, received permission from the school to use the lawn outside the campus center for it.
After Dr. Jacobson and NKU students destroyed the display, members of the group decided put new crosses up in their place and camp out overnight on Thursday to make sure they weren't vandalized again.
The student group also told The Northerner student newspaper it plans to press charges with local police.
"We called the police and told them that we decided to press charges," Julie Broering, treasurer for the group, said. The decision came after members of the pro-life club held a day-long meeting and vote.
David Tobergte, an administrative sergeant with the University Police said those involved could face felony theft charges and any students could also face university sanctions regarding the incident.
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Dr. Sally Jacobsen shown with The Sphinx in London
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Do my free speech rights extend to busting this nutcase in the chops?
Here's her home page and contact info. She is also (suprise) the diretor of Womens Studies.
http://www.nku.edu/~jacobsen/
When you see a liberal display you do not like, your 'free speech' allows you to destroy it.
I have a slightly different take on that. Perhaps part of the reason she's overweight and rabidly "pro-choice" now is because as a young woman, she had an abortion and is still in denial about the negative psychological and emotional impact that had on her.
All of that fits with typical "post-abortion syndrome" symptoms. (That's not to say that all overweight women have had abortions; just an observation.)
Tenure means...
...never having to say you're sorry...
Yes. Being "slapped in the face" with the truth that the unborn are human life can take its toll on the soul. That's why it's "agonizing" for those with a conscience left in them. It's called the guilt of the sin of murder.
LOL!!!!!
I'd like to test her tolerance to mace or pepper spray.In their own twisted minds,these idiots think that they are enlightened.
I'll be danged...looks like she could have been the trimmer one.
http://www.nku.edu/~jacobsen/
Looks like the hefty one was providing "muscle" for this elegant excercise
of First Amendment rights.
..Someone in my church....when in her younger days, had 2 abortions....2!!
I think she hasn't recovered from the guilt....she carries around a very large pronounced belly....
..and is constantly seeking doctors and medicines for 'vague ailments'....
...Sad.
Oh great. A college 'professor' who doesn't understand our 1st Amendment.
Lovely.
Another stereotype shattered.
Bingo! I have wondered this for years!
I think they're jealous that they can't get abortions too. Or something.
Cool! And *my* free speech rights allow me to trash her car! Right??
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