Posted on 04/22/2006 9:34:03 AM PDT by dukeman
Princeton, NJ -- Abortion vandalism is continuing at another college as abortion advocates destroyed a pro-life display pro-life students at Princeton University set up. The incident comes just one week after a professor led pro-abortion students in trashing a pro-life display at Northern Kentucky University.
Members of Princeton Pro-Life set up a pro-life flag display in front of Frist Campus Center to remember the 347 students that the group estimates are not attending Princeton this year because of abortion.
Pro-Life president Tom Haine said the vandalism occurred early Thursday morning.
The pink and blue flags the group used to represent the men and women who are not a part of this year's freshman class were destroyed and abortion advocates replaced them with coat hangers, a pro-abortion symbol used to claim women will die form illegal abortions if it is prohibited.
The sign in front of the display explaining its significance had been trampled and abortion advocates taped computer printouts over it with the message "support smaller class sizes: support abortion" and "347 rusty coat hangers were saved from mangling and mutilation."
Caroline Chopko, a member of the group, notice the vandalism first and reported it to Haine.
"I was kind of sad that Princeton students would choose to add in such destruction," Chopko told the Daily Princetonian student newspaper. "But I was happy that people are discussing the issue."
According to the Princetonian, Haine called the college's Public Safety office to report the incident. A representative took one of the signs to check for fingerprints but told Haine the vandalism would not be high on the office's priority list.
Haine said he doubted they would be able to find the culprit.
The computer-generated signs had a message on the back saying they were from Princeton Pro-Choice Vox, the student pro-abortion group, but a representative of the organization denied any involvement.
"Of course Princeton Pro-Choice Vox is opposed to any actions that deprive individuals of their civil rights, including the right to free speech," student Jeris Stueland Yruma, co-chair of the group, told the Princetonian.
Minor incidents of vandalism have occurred on campus, but Haine indicated this one was more egregious.
"This seems a little bit more vindictive. They had to accumulate many coat hangers. They had to plan this in advance," he said. "It was not just an act of passion."
"It's tragic to see such immaturity on campus and it's sad that people cannot respond to this debate any other way," Haine told the student newspaper. "We expect more from our fellow Princetonians."
The vandalism follows an incident at Northern Kentucky where British literature professor Dr. Sally Jacobson led several pro-abortion students in trashing a pro-life display of crosses to memorialize the deaths of babies from abortion.
Jacobson was caught on camera by the student newspaper there and NKU officials have placed her on leave and other professors have taken over her classes for the remainder of the year. She will resign following the completion of the semester.
The university has apologized to the pro-life and campus police are likely to press charges in the matter.
You lips are moving but all we hear is "BLAH, BLAH, BLAH"
Is the coat hanger argument really still valid? I can't imagine if abortion were outlawed today that the Doctors who have been doing legal abortions would do anything different if they were doing it underground. The "back alley" is long gone either way I think. I just don't get these people's arguments anymore.
" Of course Princeton Pro-Choice Vox is opposed to any actions that deprive individuals of their civil rights,..".
Isn't that a bit of a canard, since they support an action that deprives a human being of its life?
"support smaller class sizes: support abortion"
Wow. Do the pro aborts really think that sounds like a good slogan for them?
I think that must be from the prolife crowd.
And we know evil by its thoughts, words, and actions. Pro death abortonists and their supporters are pure evil.
I look forward to seeing and reading about this incident on the MSM. Not.
"Is the coat hanger argument really still valid? I can't imagine if abortion were outlawed today that the Doctors who have been doing legal abortions would do anything different if they were doing it underground. The "back alley" is long gone either way I think. I just don't get these people's arguments anymore."
No it isn't valid.
One of NARAL's founding members, Bernard Nathanson, admits those statistics were complete fiction used to feed to the public. (do a google search on "confessions of an abortionist")
Women are still being injured and dying from "safe legal" abortions - just as they were injured and killed from "backalley" abortions.
Today's abortionist isn't much different than yesterday's abortionist - there is still a total disregard for human life, and we cannot expect that type of "doctor" to really care about their female patients.
That's like saying the 9/11 terrorists were merely "discussing" Islam.
The suggestion that these people have any respect or concern for anyone else is completely insincere. They destroy for their own sick gratification. These people are the coarse, liars of the world. As they imagine themselves to be champions of liberty, they are as deluded and brainwashed as Hitler youth, the youths who killed and tortured during the cultural revolution in China or the killing fields of Cambodia. They have no idea what they stand for. Can it be that they simply want to make sure that they retain the legal right to destroy their own children should they become burdened with pregnancy before they are ready? I doubt they even know. Regardless they are ugly, dangerous fools. A considerable portion of the blame rests on the shoulders of the idiots that call themselves professors. All should be purged from the systems that endeavor to provide "higher learning" that are instead producing monsters.
Right on! Too bad their Mamas didn't believe in abortion.
It was the video footage in Kentucky that brought done the lib. Lacking that at Princton, what we need is Reward Money, and a Tough Investigation.
We KNOW the Campus Police will not conduct such an investigation, and probably are not equiped to do so anyway.
And We KNOW that local municipal cops won't either.
So we have Volunteer Attorneys -- Can we Get Volunteer Investigators? Anyone Amassing Coat hangers should be difficult to discover. They probably bragged about it before hand, and half the campus knows who they are.
Find Them.
Prosecute Them.
Kick them out of Princeton!
Lacking Volunteer Investigators, perhaps a fund to support hiring PI's?
Just speculation on my part...I have never been to Princeton, even to visit the campus.
How sad, when we study the founding history of Princeton (as well as Harvard & Yale). Just look up any of these great universities history,their purpose was to futher the message and kingdom Of Jesus Christ. Just reading this history would cause most of them (these called pro-choice mob)to pull their own hair out and rage.
I believe the US gov't statistics reported the number of women who died from an illegal abortion in 1972 (last year for Roe v. Wade).
The number . . .
ONE.
There's a great article (someone on FR probably has the link) that indicated the main reason for the drop in "back-alley" deaths was . . . (drum roll please) . . . advances in medical care. Even "back-alley" abortionists were overwhelmingly doctors, taking advantage of latest in procedures, anti-biotics, etc.
good point.
I doubt that your speculation about Princton is correct {the vast majority of students, parents, and alumni...glad of quashing Pro-life support and willing that nothing be done}
For one thing, remember that the Pro-life demo itself was set up by students.
But even more important, it's not that Ivy League colleges are more immune to image, but rather that they are far more concerned about maintaining a public image.
i don't expect the animals to respect property when they don't respect a childs life. violent to babies, violent to kiosks.
I hope you are right...I don't know that much about Princeton, but associate with certain well-known faculty such as Sean Wilentz, Cornel West, and Peter Singer.
duke, you didn't post the most important part, the last sentence, the contact information.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/tools/contacts/
more info:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/tools/az/a.xml?section=administration
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/vpadmin/
http://www.princeton.edu/~vp/index.html
http://www.princeton.edu/~vp/trustees/Trustee_photo-04-05.html
"support smaller class sizes: support abortion"
These people are sick! I can only imagine what they'll say next!
"Support less New York traffic: support osama bin laden"
" Of course Princeton Pro-Choice Vox is opposed to any actions that deprive individuals of their civil rights,..".
Oh is that true? Well what about a little thing I like to call the right to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? But apparently the "right to choose" is more important.
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