The University of Northern Iowa’s
student government and “Supreme Court” have both denied Students for Life
America’s request to have a chapter approved for the campus.* Students for Life
has appealed to Mark Nook, the school’s president, to overturn the rulings.
UNI’s student government denied SLA’s
application on October 7th, saying Students for Life “is a hate
group, [and uses] hate speech [and] hateful rhetoric that is infringing
on basic human rights that is healthcare,” an embarrassingly poorly written
statement, but par for the course for today’s college students. The
school’s “Supreme Court” backed the student government’s decision, ruling that
the group was “lacking in evidence of being an equitable, just, and welcoming
student organization.”
“This organization
has the potential to create a hostile environment on the University Campus,” the
majority decision said, referencing the student conduct code process which
said students have a right to be treated with “dignity and respect.” The majority
decision added, “Allowing this organization that openly disregards the rights
of women and other subsequent groups is not demonstrating nor upholding this
policy.”
Students for Life America uses hateful “rhetoric?” The
UNI student government’s denial statement claims that SLA infringes on “basic
human rights.” But the most basic human right, granted by our Creator,
is the right to life. It is those in opposition to SLA that are denying basic
human rights and using hateful—and preposterous-- rhetoric. Calling
unfettered abortion “healthcare” is like calling the Holocaust “beneficial
population management.” By that standard, putting COVID-19 patients into
nursing homes was “healthcare.” Except maybe for the tens of thousands of
elderly folks that died.
The majority’s assertion that students have a right
to be treated with “dignity and respect,” is ironic in light of how the UNI Supreme
Court’s majority just treated those in SLA…and is contrary to how conservative speakers and Trump supporters get treated on campuses across the fruited
plane.
The justices in the dissenting minority wrote: “The
majority opinion has predicted actions of UNI Students for Life –sowing unrest
on campus and depriving others of their rights — that go far beyond the logical
scope of this case. By silencing a group of students who have shown no interest
or indication of harming others, the NISG Senate and the Supreme Court majority
are robbing these students of their fundamental right to speak freely and
assemble as a group.”
If a person seeks out a willing partner, takes their
clothes off, goes at it while forgoing any measures to prevent pregnancy, and
then refuses to accept responsibility for their own actions, deciding instead
to terminate the fetus/kill their baby…that should be a hate crime. Once
a baby is conceived, created, he or she has a right to life.
The Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their
Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of Happiness.”
If depriving a baby of all of these
is now somehow considered “healthcare,” if being “pro-life” is considered by
many to be a “hate crime,” I must echo Thomas Jefferson’s comment about slavery: “I tremble
for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep
forever.”
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*Update: UNI's president has since approved SLA's application.
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