Duke University Condemns North Carolina’s 12-Week Abortion Ban in Email to Student Body

LifeSite News ^ | 6/14/23 | Calvin Freiburger

[marshmallow]

'If you are one of the few students at Duke who hold an unpopular (pro-life) opinion on this issue or on many others, there is nowhere for you to turn.'

DURHAM, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — Duke University signaled a bias against pro-life students when it sent out a campus-wide email condemning North Carolina’s ban on most abortions after 12 weeks, according to a concerned Duke student.

Last month, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted Senate Bill 20 over the veto of Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. Effective next month, the bill will ban elective surgical abortions after 12 weeks and chemical abortions after 10, forbid distributing abortion drugs by mail, impose a three-day waiting period on abortions, and require women be offered an ultrasound of their baby, among other regulations.

In response to the measure, Duke’s Student Affairs office sent an email to all students declaring abortion to be “evidence-based, essential healthcare,” suggesting that “more restrictive laws have a disproportionate impact on low-income pregnant people and on communities of color,” and vowing to continue providing “high-quality care for all Duke students,” including Plan B and “any legally-permitted support for patients who need to make healthcare decisions with their health providers.”

“Pro-choice people believe that they are fighting for women’s bodily autonomy, which is an important human right. Pro-life people believe that they are fighting for the fetus’s right to life, which is also an important human right,” wrote Paige Brasington, a third-year J.D. candidate at Duke Law, in an op-ed for the student newspaper The Chronicle. “Because these two human rights are often in conflict, people can, in good faith, come to different conclusions on the issue. There should be room to advocate for and discuss both beliefs at Duke.”

[Redmen4ever]

Hey, Duke University, Communist China and North Korea will perform abortions through live birth. Why don’t you offer to cover the travel experiences of students you decide, after 12 weeks, they want an abortion.

Then, there’s Canada for unwanted post-natal persons. They’re pretty liberal when it comes to euthanasia.

There’s also options for selling people into slavery, human sex trafficking, and selling of human body parts. How woke are you?

[rktman]

Well if I was Duke and felt like that I’d pack all my stuff and move to a hard blue state by golly. Strange that whatever “they” say is supposedly the correct way to believe. NOT! 🖕

[Justa]

If they advocate to kill ‘undesirable’ babies they will advocate to kill people they do not value.

[eyeamok]

This is an EASY FIX, the Legislature just needs to STRIP them of ALL FUNDING and Rescind any and all accreditation’s for the ENTIRE school.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

North Korean women are having children at a much higher rate than American white women who are choosing not to reproduce.

North Korea may well have a better future.

[Eccl 10:2]

Because they were soooo right about the Duke lacrosse team and Crystal Mangum

[KC Burke]

I disagree.

Duke is a private university. If its management wants to espouse a political position, as though it is a fact and denigrate its credibility, they should be able to do so. We can ask people that support it to explain their thoughts but I don’t think government force should be used in retaliation.

[eyeamok]

I don’t think government force should be used in retaliation.

Under normal circumstances I would agree with you but take a good look around at what the Federal Government and the Demonrat party is doing. They have SET THE RULES OF THE GAME and unless we play by the same RULES they put forward, it will continue to get worse and America will perish. THESE ARE THEIR RULES and we need to uphold and play by them.

[antidemoncrat]

As I’ve said. Universities have morphed from Institutes of Higher Learning into Cesspools of Disinformation.

[Hatteras]

"Hey, Duke University, Communist China and North Korea will perform abortions through live birth. Why don’t you offer to cover the travel experiences of students you decide, after 12 weeks, they want an abortion."

Haha, Hell, 1st Gen Asians probably make up half the student population at Duke now...

[MIA_eccl1212]

Because they were soooo right about the Duke lacrosse team and Crystal Mangum

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Crystal Mangum, the woman who was the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case, has been charged with first-degree murder and two larceny charges. She found her way back into the news after an altercation