Student groups plan second Pro-Choice Day
Jesse Call
Issue date: 4/9/08 Section: News
Members of Common Ground did not respond to The Northerner's requests for information.
The same-sex marriage celebration will wrap up a full day of events. It is scheduled to take place at 4:00 p.m. in the University Center lobby.
At 2:30, Kentucky State Senator Ernesto Scorsone (D-Fayette), an attorney who successfully had Kentucky's anti-sodomy statutes overturned and a supporter of gay rights issues, will address NKU students in the UC Ballroom.
"I'm going to talk about some of the legal and political issues involving the gay community," Scorsone said. He said part of his speech would likely include comments on his legal battle to legalize sodomy in the Commonwealth.
"Senator Scorsone is an amazing and effective member of the Senate, and as soon as we were planning on focusing this day on personal empowerment in politics, he was the natural first choice," said Erin Sandy, vice president for NKU Students for Choice.
Scorsone will be joined by Tara Bonistall, of Planned Parenthood, who will address legal issues relating to women's rights in Ohio and Kentucky
From 10:30 to 2:30 p.m., the organizations will host a Personal Power & Politics fair that will feature organizations including The KEF, Staff and Faculty for Equality, Educators for Reproductive Freedom, the American Civil Liberties Union, Reproductive Freedom Project, Women's Crisis Center, National Organization for Women, Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus, Planned Parenthood, and Obama and Clinton campaign representatives.
Sandy also said she believes the issues of her organization are related to those of Common Ground.
"Students for Choice believes that couples, not the government, should decide if they will marry, and that this is a pro-choice, pro-freedom value, so therefore we proudly stand by and support Common Ground," she said.
While students inside the University Center will be learning about pro-choice and gay rights issues, outside in the UC plaza will be a pro-life display comparing abortion to historic images of genocide. The display is sponsored by Northern Right to Life.
Northern Right to Life expects "pro-choicers" to protest the display, according to Katie Walker, the organization's president. However, Sandy said that she hopes no such protest of their event will take place.
"I don't imagine Right to Life [or any other organization] protesting against educating people about their role in the political sphere, and politics' role in their lives," Sandy said, adding that the NKU Students for Choice president, Alex Kindell, has invited Northern Right to Life to share information and literature about their viewpoints at the event instead of protesting.
NRTL expects "pro-choicers" to protest the display, according to Katie Walker, the organization's president. However, Sandy said that she hopes no such protest of their event will take place.
The same-sex marriage celebration will wrap up a full day of events. It is scheduled to take place at 4:00 p.m. in the University Center lobby.
At 2:30, Kentucky State Senator Ernesto Scorsone (D-Fayette), an attorney who successfully had Kentucky's anti-sodomy statutes overturned and a supporter of gay rights issues, will address NKU students in the UC Ballroom.
"I'm going to talk about some of the legal and political issues involving the gay community," Scorsone said. He said part of his speech would likely include comments on his legal battle to legalize sodomy in the Commonwealth.
"Senator Scorsone is an amazing and effective member of the Senate, and as soon as we were planning on focusing this day on personal empowerment in politics, he was the natural first choice," said Erin Sandy, vice president for NKU Students for Choice.
Scorsone will be joined by Tara Bonistall, of Planned Parenthood, who will address legal issues relating to women's rights in Ohio and Kentucky
From 10:30 to 2:30 p.m., the organizations will host a Personal Power & Politics fair that will feature organizations including The KEF, Staff and Faculty for Equality, Educators for Reproductive Freedom, the American Civil Liberties Union, Reproductive Freedom Project, Women's Crisis Center, National Organization for Women, Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus, Planned Parenthood, and Obama and Clinton campaign representatives.
Sandy also said she believes the issues of her organization are related to those of Common Ground.
"Students for Choice believes that couples, not the government, should decide if they will marry, and that this is a pro-choice, pro-freedom value, so therefore we proudly stand by and support Common Ground," she said.
While students inside the University Center will be learning about pro-choice and gay rights issues, outside in the UC plaza will be a pro-life display comparing abortion to historic images of genocide. The display is sponsored by Northern Right to Life.
Northern Right to Life expects "pro-choicers" to protest the display, according to Katie Walker, the organization's president. However, Sandy said that she hopes no such protest of their event will take place.
"I don't imagine Right to Life [or any other organization] protesting against educating people about their role in the political sphere, and politics' role in their lives," Sandy said, adding that the NKU Students for Choice president, Alex Kindell, has invited Northern Right to Life to share information and literature about their viewpoints at the event instead of protesting.
NRTL expects "pro-choicers" to protest the display, according to Katie Walker, the organization's president. However, Sandy said that she hopes no such protest of their event will take place.
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Charlotte
posted 4/09/08 @ 8:44 AM EST
Marriage is a basic civil right that should be attainable by all Americans if they choose. For the truth about gay marriage check out our trailer. Produced to educate & defuse the controversy it has a way of opening closed minds & provides some sanity on the issue: OUTTAKEonline. (Continued…)
Edwinna Meister
posted 4/10/08 @ 1:38 PM EST
I read with interest the article about a second Pro-Choice Day on April 10, 2008. In that article, Erin Sandy, vice-president for the organization, stated that she hopes pro-choicers choose not to protest the Right to Life display on that same day, and seems to insinuate that such a protest works against "educating people about their role in the politics sphere, and politics' role in their lives". (Continued…)
Alex Kindell
posted 4/13/08 @ 9:17 PM EST
Edwinna-
I am the president of Students for Choice, and I invited Katie Walker and Marissa Caldwell, both officers of Right to Life, to participate respectfully within the Personal Power & Politics Fair about two months ago, so they could feel their voice and opinion about the political sphere was being heard, and there wouldn't be the need for them to protest. (Continued…)
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