14 people seems to be a little skewed when there are some 300,000 living alumni….

Sometimes I wonder what major flaw the pro-lifers are hiding. It’s like the pastors who speak out against homosexuality, but are actually gay themselves.

As an average guy, I don’t often consume too much thought with anyone unborn enough not to have a social security number, but these people are so bent out of shape that they’ll write a letter to the badger herald.

Yeah, 7:25 a.m.. Not having a social security number means we can kill them. WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? That’s the worst logic I’ve heard in the abortion debate, ever.

Abotion is robbing the USA of much needed cannon fodder?

Let ‘em use coat hangers like in the good old days!

I’m pro-life…never got to sign the letter. What’s your point Anonymous? You expect people to gather the name of every pro-life alum before writing a letter? Very odd argument to make. I say to the authors of this letter, thanks for speaking for me!!!

In response to the two previous notes…

The letter mentions that not just alumni but perhaps staff, faculty, and employees are also opposed to abortion which would be more than 300,000 people.

Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, MLK’s niece also have spoken out against abortion and how detrimental it is to society and the promotion of all human rights. I don’t think they were hiding some sort of personal flaw when they spoke out against abortion as murder. Open your mind and read what important thinkers and human rights activists have written about abortion rather than staying in your liberal Madison comfort zone.

So men can’t have opinions on issues like this? So men can’t oppose rape? Men can’t oppose female genital mutilation? This is just wrong. Abortion isn’t just about a woman having a surgery…it’s about ending the life of an innocent party—-the unborn child. This should be EVERYONE’s concern.

they aren’t the only ones, 1:43am. there are thousands of alumni (and future alumni) who will NOT give back to the UW if they go through with this plan. conservative alumni. the ones who, because we didn’t waste our college careers trying to push forth a hippie agenda, are the ones with money. when alumni support equals state support, can you really afford to lose that?

12:42, you won’t be giving back to the university anyway, because you will have already given your wealth to the poor as Christ commands.

In regard to 7:25, I agree. Once something extraneous to your own life consumes your religious, personal, political and emotional life, it’s pathologic. Mother Theresa and MLK’s neice (really? who cares) had bigger fish to fry… well, at least Mother Theresa did.

Some of you think that caring about the lives of innocent babies is “extraneous” or odd. Are you kidding me? You wonder why the Holocaust happened…it was because of apathetic people who find it “pathological” to care about the murder of fellow human beings. It’s pathological not to care about the babies that are being aborted and the many women (and men too) who are devastated by the mistake of abortion. What is wrong with you? You should care that people like Mother Teresa, Gandhi and MLK’s niece expressed a link between injustice, human degradation, murder and abortion. Most civil rights movements have been led by religious/spiritual people who believe that human rights are inherent to every single person regardless of their race, gender, class and size. What’s pathological is to sit on the sidelines and criticize those who do care about protecting the lives of other human beings.

ironic that 3:03 pm thinks that abortion is extraneous to life. good thing his mother didn’t view him as “extraneous” or he wouldn’t be here to pontificate on a blog. think about it: this are real people we are talking about, not abstract theories.

I have never understood why certain people think it is their God given right to inflict their crackpot beliefs on others. I don’t see all the pro-lifers out there offering foster care services to the 500,000 kids that no one wants.

32 million dead. 32 million injured. When will this War on Babies end?

By the 14th week of gestation, early in the 2nd trimester, an in-utero child has fully recognizable features: eyes and eye lids, nose and nostrils, mouth and lips, brains, lungs, genitals, fingers and finger nails, all of our human aspects etched in miniature. The little rascals are sometimes even sucking their thumbs at 14 week gestation!

Think about that.

Thank You Badger Alums, for speaking for myself, like minded alums, and the weakest and least protected members of our society - the blameless child in womb.

Your Fellow Alum, ‘84’ & ‘86’.

If you’re so opposed to abortion, there’s a simple solution: DON’T HAVE ONE.

“pre-born baby”

What other terminology can you pro-birthers come up with?

-Much love, An “abortion enthusiast”

“Blameless children in wombs” kill women around the world every day…

So if they don’t do it in Madison, they’ll go elsewhere to get it done or try the old hanger method. You don’t have to agree with it. Why not provide the option for women who would go elsewhere or go about it unsafely and risk their lives as well?

Thanks alums, I hope to see some of you at the rally tomorrow.

4:27pm think about this: a baby may have all of those features at 14 weeks but if you were to take them out of the womb at that time they would more than likely have a problem later in life if they survive or die.

So if a fetus in the womb is not able to survive on its own can you really call it a human being?

Yeah, we know, you’re “pro-birth,” but you don’t give a damn after that unless you have the opportunity to impose the death penalty.

What would pro-lifers have us do? Give full rights to fetuses? Such a move would have ridiculous consequences. For instance, would the mother be held liable for a tort, manslaughter or even murder if, by some kind of negligent behavior like eating nothing but ice cream and drinking nothing but beer, she contributed to a birth defect or miscarriage? That just seems outrageous, but it seems to follow from assuming that fetuses are endowed with full rights at conception. This is a difficult philosophical question, and neither dedicated pro-lifers nor dedicated pro-choicers are ever honest enough about it.

3:44, get off your high horse you twat. Liberals all over this campus think it’s their God (or is it godless?) given right to inflict their crackpot beliefs without mercy on people.

“Pro-birth.” I like it.

May the fetus you save be gay

I’ve accused Kyle Szarzynski of writing the least relevant material for this newspaper, but scratch that because you (all) have taken the cake.

If you leave a newborn baby without any support, it would die. So by your warped anti-life logic, is someone only a human being when they can care for themselves?

HUGE pro-life rally yesterday…largest I’ve seen in Madison since I moved here for undergrad. Good to see there are other people who actually care about children in this city!