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Via The College Fix:
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give a closed lecture at Georgetown University on April 20, and commencement exercises May 15 at the University of Notre Dame will honor the staunchly pro-choice Vice President Joe Biden with its Laetare Medal — the oldest, most prestigious award for American Catholics.
At both universities, cadres of students, alumni and professors have risen up to protest these decisions with petitions, letter writing campaigns – they’ve even scheduled pro-life events to contrast the pro-abortion ones.
“The award to Vice President Biden simply cheapens the significance of the Laetare Medal. It also damages Notre Dame’s commitment to the pro-life cause both on campus and beyond it,” said Father Bill Miscamble, a history professor at Notre Dame.
At Georgetown, its Right to Life group has spearheaded an effort to protest the event with petitions, an open letter, and scheduled events on the day of Richards’ visit to campus. It will host its annual Flag Day on April 20, during GeorgetownUniversity.Ehpein.Flickrwhich the group places thousands of flags in the campus lawn to mark the number of abortions that occur in the U.S. everyday.
On April 19, it will host a “Life-Affirming Alternatives to Planned Parenthood” panel, and the week leading up to the talk the group will host its annual Life Week. Right to Life will also host Abby Johnson—a former Planned Parenthood worker turned pro-life advocate—for an evening talk, and Students for Life will be present on campus along with banners providing information and statistics about Planned Parenthood.
On top of that, GU Right to Life helped draft two petitions opposing the talk, said its president, Georgetown sophomore Michael Khan. The first petition, written in partnership with the national group Students for Life, is open for anyone to sign. The second, drafted by a group of concerned GU alumni, is specific to Georgetown students, alumni, faculty and administrators.
“Planned Parenthood is our nation’s largest abortion provider, performing over 320,000 abortions in 2015 alone,” says the student letter, which Khan provided to The College Fix.