Well, this didn’t go down well.
A few days ago, the anti-abortion group Oxford Students for Life (OSFL) advertised this debate on its Facebook page.
Last year in Britain, over 185,000 abortions were carried out. What does this say about our national culture? Is it a sign of equality, or does it suggest we treat human life carelessly? Joining OSFL to debate the issue are two prominent journalists.
Tim Stanley is a historian of the United States, and writes for the Telegraph. He has said: 'We desperately need to have an honest conversation about abortion in the West. Free from hysteria, yes, but cognizant of what it really involves. Otherwise, we tolerate the demise of human dignity.'
Brendan O'Neill is the editor of Spiked and a columnist for the Big Issue. 'The right to choose', he has written, 'frees a woman from official prying into the decisions she makes about her body and her life; it increases her humanity, it makes her a fuller, more independent human being.'
There was an outcry on other parts of the site. Here's a page entitled "What The Fuck Is Abortion Culture?" posted by a (now deleted) account called "Oxrev Fems".
CN for the event: really shitty anti-choice rhetoric and probs some cissexism
This Tuesday Oxford Students for Life are putting on a super cute debate with two cis guys on whether people with uteruses deserve to have any choice over their own bodies.
(http://ift.tt/1t9rLBn)We don't think this is okay so (assuming the event is still going ahead) we thought we should go and say hi!
Bring your friends, and if you want take along some non-destructive but oh so disruptive instruments to help demonstrate to the anti-choicers just what we think of their "debate".
We will also have a fundraising bucket for Abortion Support- a charity that helps women in Ireland and Northern Ireland come to the UK for abortions.
It's great that we can have a positive outcome from this shitty initiative.We are still hoping this gets shut down by the college (Christ Church). Let's use the event page for ideas on how best to organise against this debate.
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