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- From: cburian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher J Burian)
- Newsgroups: alt.censorship
- Subject: Re: Restrictions about pro-life meetings
- Message-ID: <Bxvs5u.Bz5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:08:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.153108.29048@maths.tcd.ie>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- thomas@maths.tcd.ie (Thomas Bridge) writes:
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- >I am shocked, amazed, horrified at the hypocrisy of certain elements of the
- >Pro-Choice movement in Trinity College, Dublin.
-
- [...]
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- >One of the pro-life supporting groups in the college spent last Monday morning
- >putting up posters advertising a meeting of the group about abortion. A group
- >or individual (presumably pro-choice) spent Monday afternoon tearing them down
- >again. It can be argued that restricting abortion information is a form of
- >censorship. But surely, under the same logic, the tearing down of pro-life
- >posters is censorship, and therefore equally as much a denial of one's right
- >to have complete Freedom of information.
-
- >Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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- >Thomas Bridge.
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- If pro-choice supporters want to make a statement, they can put up their
- own posters. Tearing down other people's posters is wrong, especially
- on an issue of legitimate controversy. I'm not so sure that you're
- as "shocked, amazed and horrified" as you claim. While unreasonable,
- the hooligans' behavior isn't particularly surprising.
-
- By the way; heckling, tearing down posters and similar disruptions are
- rude, but they aren't censorship. Governments censor, individuals
- don't. State prohibition of abortion referrals *is* censorship.
- Does anyone suppose that government censorship is a lesser threat than
- individuals tearing down posters?
-
- Chris---
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