Editor,
Today marks the return to campus of the pro-life group the Survivors. It's a Christian organization dedicated to educating high school and college-age individuals. Members believe that anyone born after 1972 is a survivor of the abortion holocaust, which completely belittles the Holocaust. Furthermore, they claim that one-third of our generation has been killed by abortion in America.
I am a member of the Reproductive Justice Coalition, a collaboration comprised of three pro-choice groups on campus: NARAL-UNM, Voices for Planned Parenthood and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Our organization is pro-choice, not pro-abortion, and we support every woman's fundamental right to make her own decision about pregnancy.
Outlawing abortion will not stop it, but rather force women to seek illegal or dangerous self-induced abortions. Instead of allowing policymakers to make our decisions about pregnancy, it should be our nation's goal to make abortion less necessary by making birth control, emergency contraception and comprehensive sex education more accessible.
But proof this is not happening has already affected many women on campus. The Deficit Reduction Act, which came into effect in January, allowed Congress to inadvertently change a law and forced universities and some safety-net family-planning providers to raise prices for birth control.
We will have a table today in Smith Plaza from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. I encourage anyone who would like more information about what it means to be pro-choice, or those who want to get involved, to stop by.
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Shannon Niebuhr
UNM student
