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To celebrate the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, students from the group Feminists for Action set up a booth to inform students and professors about the case.
A table with various handouts was placed in the first floor of Teachers College from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m on Friday. The group stayed at the booth talking with those interested in learning more about the case.
Erin Tuegel, vice president of Feminists for Action, said the organization wanted to share their views and also to teach about the case.
"We want to make clear to the university that [pro-life] is not the prevailing opinion on campus and that there are men and women who are willing to defend choice and reproductive rights," she said.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court declared abortion legal. The case decision remains controversial between pro-life and pro-choice organizations. Tuegel said the organization wanted to share their enthusiasm about the anniversary of the case with other students as well.
Feminists for Action member Tiffany Cooper said there is more that needs to be done for their cause.
"It's kind of a two steps forward, three steps back thing," she said. "We think we've come so far, and yet Planned Parenthood got defunded not long ago, and that actually cut a lot, not necessarily abortion access, but access to preventative health care."
Students and professors who walked by had different opinions about the case and about the controversy behind it.
Junior applied cultural anthropology major Tyler Fields said the event was a good way to teach students about current issues and history. Fields said while she had her own beliefs, she understood both sides of the issue.
"I feel like, with something like this, it's inevitable because it's human beings," she said. "When it comes to human beings, there's always controversy, it's just going to happen."
John Vann, associate professor of marketing, also stopped by the booth. He said he thought it was important for students to express their cause visually, a cause he supports.
"Women's reproductive rights are very important," he said. "And we need to put a stop to population growth and unwanted pregnancies."
Vann said he thought it was unfortunate that there is still controversy behind the case.
"I do understand both sides," he said. "I understand their position, I just don't think we should impose our views on women who have an unwanted pregnancy, someone in that situation."
Feminists for Action is sponsoring some other events throughout the semester, including a performance called "F to eMbody" to inform about the transgender community, and the Vagina Monologues during Women's Week.
and though I do, you would just call me hypocrite for me telling you. Just like when I was taking flight school and my instructor was telling me how he wrecked his plane because he wasn't watching the tailwind speed. I turned to him and yelled, right in his pathetic little face, "YOU HYPOCRITE! YOU CRASHED A PLANE AND NOW YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD DO TO AVOID A CRASH?!?!"
Except the unborn person. You expect the rest of us to tacitly or openly support your homicide of that unborn person, because you didn't fully think through the consequences of your actions? Because you made a Mistake?? Hmm... Human reproductive organs... Hmmm.. What do they do again? OH THAT'S RIGHT! THEY REPRODUCE HUMANS! QUICK, someone Twitter this discovery! I deserve a Nobel Prize for the science on this one. Can't believe nobody else figured this out before me...It is Fear, Selfishness, and Poor Understanding of the value of your life AND the life of your unborn child, which causes you to desire to kill a fellow human for your own comfort. Greed, that is your desire for a "rich" easy lifestyle, is not an acceptable reason to kill a child. Sorry if you already did.
riiiiight. all those stories of the prince saving the princess were because the guy was actually a wuss. a culture of female chauvinists who dream of sleeping beauty moments... and yet i'm "screwed up" because my dna says my place in the "order of the family" is built such that i attack/distract first, at plausible loss of my own life, so that the literally physically weaker member of the parental couple can gain herself and our children safety... riiiiight. interesting stuff all around. hey, maybe that evolution thing, you claim takes millions of years, can make your dna take "what it learned over the spans of millennium", and forget it it in just about a century, so that you can be more... more.. what exactly was it you wanted? petri-dish enabled? turkey-baster mated? personally, i think self-hatred is a terrible thing. it sounds silly, but women are women, they are not men. any belief that women need equality with men implies that women are inferior, men are inferior, or that humanity itself is inferior. but, what exactly is your example? what do you really want?
Maybe you can stop screwing, and be the "responsible" "adult" "human" with "intelligence" to "choose," like you claim, and most of this discussion would be moot.
Like creates like. A much more basic understanding. Hence, even if the stage is young, the whole is human.
Whether it is an abortion done through "legal" or "illegal" means, isn't it still a crime again nature, prematurely ending a human life and calling it choice? In every case except those where the life of the mother is in danger, we're not talking about a choice between whether we want a "living, breathing, feeling women" to have life or if we want an innocent child to have life. We're talking about whether one person should have the choice whether to end the life of another. What we need to be doing is educating women about how abortion ends a human life. That way, whether if it is through so-called legal methods or not, they will remember that it is in fact a baby we're talking about. Then, hopefully they'll stand on the side of life. If you fail to see just how sad abortion is, I really wonder about your soul.