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<p class="">by <span class=""><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/author/mairead-mcardle-thomas-aquinas-college/" class="">Mairead McArdle - Thomas Aquinas College</a></span> on <abbr class="" title="2014-10-29">October 29, 2014</abbr></p><p class=""><abbr class="" title="2014-10-29"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/19896/">http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/19896/</a><br></abbr></p>
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<p><span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b>A trend</b></u></span> seen by prolife activists<span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b> that frequently engage college
students on campuses nationwide is the growing acceptance of post-birth
abortion, or killing the infant after he or she is born,</b></u></span> campus prolife
outreach leaders tell <em>The College Fix</em>.</p>
<p>Anecdotal evidence by leaders of prolife groups such as Created Equal
and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust said in interviews that not
only do they see more college students willing to say they support
post-birth abortion, but s<span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b>ome students even suggest children up to 4 or
5-years-old can also be killed,</b></u></span> because they are not yet “self aware.”</p>
<p>“We encounter people who think it is morally acceptable to kill
babies after birth on a regular basis at almost every campus we visit,”
said Mark Harrington, director of <a href="http://www.createdequal.net/" target="_blank">Created Equal</a>. “While this viewpoint is still seen as shocking by most people, it is becoming increasingly popular.”</p>
<p>Campuses where the high school, college students, local activists and
staff members of Created Equal have encountered this opinion include
Purdue, University of Minnesota, and University of Central Florida. And
at Ohio State earlier this year, the group captured a debate <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2014/09/29/abortion-activist-defends-infanticide-medical-necessity-may-require-killing-baby-after-birth/">on video</a> between one of its members and an older woman on campus who defended infanticide.</p>
<p>“This is the whole problem with devaluing human life at any stage—it
will naturally grow to include other groups of humans; in this case,
born humans as well as preborn humans,” Harrington said. “[I] talked
with <span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b>one young man at the University of Minnesota who thought it was
alright to kill children if they were under the age of 5 years old, as
he did not consider them persons until that age.”</b></u></span></p>
<p>Kristina Garza, spokeswoman for <a href="http://www.survivors.la/" target="_blank">Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust</a>,
a prolife organization that often sets up anti-abortion displays on
campuses along the West Coast, said her group also frequently encounters
college students who accept infanticide.</p>
<p>“For those who are firmly for abortion, because they understand it
kills a human being, it’s very easy for them to accept killing a human
being after birth,” Garza said. “There is<span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b> this notion that is common on
campus, that it’s OK to kill babies because somehow we don’t become
human until we are self aware.”</b></u></span></p>
<p>“A common number that is going around is 4 years old,” she adds.</p>
<p>As for the trend, Garza said there’s an explanation for it. For one,
the arguments put forth by Peter Singer and other philosophers who
support infanticide are given as reading assignments to college
students.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b>Singer wrote in 1979 that “human babies are not born self-aware, or
capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons …
[therefore] the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a
pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.”</b></u></span></p>
<p>“He has been saying things like this since the 70s, but I think it
has been more recently that this type of ideology is being promoted on
college campuses,” Garza said. “When he said this stuff, there was a
very select few who accepted it. But nowadays, we have become so
desensitized, and college students lacking in a moral fiber easily
accept this kind of strange ideology.”</p>
<p>But prolife advocacy and engagement on campuses has helped turn students away from pro-choice stances, she adds.</p>
<p>“While the number of students who believe it is OK with killing
children after birth is growing, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><u><b>the number of students who accept that
life begins at conception is also growing, and that is growing at a
larger and faster rate than those who accept infanticide,</b></u></span>” Garza said.</p>
<p>“The trends I am seeing is it’s not so much students are better
grounded in morals, it’s that we as a prolife movement have done our job
in presenting a better argument, and we are pushing people out of the
middle,” she said.<b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><u>“We are seeing more students who see the logic and
choose to be anti-abortion.”</u></span></b></p>
<p>Yet staunch opposition to the prolife philosphy remains.</p>
<p>Asked about the incident at Ohio State, at which a woman responded to
a prolife display by defending infanticide, a pro-abortion activism
group at the campus stated its views were similar to those of the woman
in the clip.</p>
<p>“As for post-birth abortion, I would imagine that my colleagues would
think the ‘post-birth’ part was largely irrelevant, as we believe very
strongly in abortion on demand, without apology, and it’s plain and
simple that we should look to the woman’s morals and not shove our
opinions where they, frankly, don’t belong,” Devin Deitsch, leader of
VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood at Ohio State University, said in an
email to <em>The College Fix</em>.</p>
<p>“Speaking as the primary leader of VOX, I assure you we are very<span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b>
pro-choice</b></u></span>,” Deitsch also noted. “…<span style="background-color:rgb(213,166,189)"><u><b> We are not here to advocate for
women to get abortions, we advocate for her ability to make that choice
without fear, heckling, or barriers. Essentially, we ask for a woman
(and her body) to be respected. Nothing more, nothing less.”</b></u></span></p>
<p>College Fix <em>reporter Mairead McArdle is a student at Thomas Aquinas College.</em></p></div>