Reader shuns Exponent for pro-life advertisement

Publication Date: 04/01/2008

How dare you, Purdue Exponent? How dare you distribute an insert that provides contact information for establishments designed to help young pregnant mothers? Surely this encroaches upon the rights of women somehow! I find it abhorrent that this insert provides the testimonies of experts and women who have actually gone through abortions. We're college students; we can figure it out for ourselves. Didn't we settle this once and for all on the opinions page a few weeks ago? And how dare they cite their sources!? The Human Life Alliance even had the nerve to bring men into this by telling a father's side of the story! Since when do men have the right to be informed about decisions regarding their own children? Also, if a woman has the right, no, the obligation, to protect herself by having an abortion, then the press has no right to give accurate descriptions of how this is accomplished, as it is simply too graphic. What Constitutional right does the press have to provide free information designed to help people? Shame on you, Purdue Exponent!

Jeffrey Williams

Sophomore in the College of Technology