Freedom on campus - John Carpay CityTV interview

John Carpay - CityTV Calgary Breakfast Television interview. Subject: Freedom of Expression on the University of Calgary Campus.

The University of Calgary charged several of its own students with trespassing on their own campus, because these students defied the University's censorship demands regarding their controversial anti-abortion display.

In 2008, the U of C started demanding that members of Campus Pro-Life club turn their signs inwards such that passersby could not see the signs. In addition to threats of arrest and fines, the University has also threatened the students with suspension and even expulsion for non-academic misconduct. The students refused to give in to this arbitrary censorship directed only at them, and proceeded to set up their display, as they had done on previous occasions in 2006 and 2007.

This interview took place shortly after the U of C Student's Union terminated the club status of the Campus Pro-Life club.

The Canadian Constitution Foundation takes no stance on abortion, however we strongly support the freedom of expression of all Canadians, especially students on a publicly funded university campus.

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[o0Theresa0o]

@keith2882 So if a leech clings to your leg for life, do you not have the right to pull it off? If a parasite is living in your stomach, do you not have the right to take drugs to kill it? You are attributing much more credit/rights etc. to the fetus than it deserves IMO if you think it isn't equivalent to these examples. It is nothing but a clump of cells that has a potential to be something given the right conditions, just like an egg isn't a chicken, but has the potential to be a chicken.

[keith2882]

@o0Theresa0o I think it is partially their body, but not entirely, since these mothers now share it with another life which is totally dependent on them for their life and do so from conception. To reduce life to comments such as a clumpof cells is lacking in empathy-the very characteristic attributed to the defendants at the Nuremburg trials. This attitude will lead to an attack on the next most vulnerable in society: the weak and infirm.

[o0Theresa0o]

@keith2882 If it is their body, they have the right to do whatever they wish with it. If you think that something that is nothing but of clump of cells has more rights than a grown woman, then there is no need to even talk to me, because we clearly disagree.

[keith2882]

@o0Theresa0o Women do not have the ethical right to destroy an unborn child incapable of protecting itself even when an unethical and immoral law exists. If you have the ability to listen you should hear what they're saying. To me they're brave young adults speaking the truth in a difficult and hostile environment - heros!

[o0Theresa0o]

They should have been expelled for hate speech. Comparing women to murderers, nazis and genocide advocates is a sick and twisted thing. There is no other goal but to demonize these women who have already have/had to make a very difficult decision. This is discrimination and the people who are the targets should be protected.

[AntiShocker]

Protect freedom at all cost and prosecute it's violators including those who plot to usurp it's definition.