Allegheny College, Meadville, PA (April 19, 2008)
Bill Clinton, who twice vetoed legislation to ban partial-birth abortion,
arriving for a campaign rally for pro-abortion Hillary Clinton

Allegheny College, Meadville, PA (April 19, 2008)
Demonstrators remind the public that
Hillary Clinton's abortion advocacy would kill more babies.

"on abortion, Mr. Obama is an extremist." -- Nat Hentoff (April 28, 2008)

Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA (April 18, 2008)
Pro-abortion Barack Obama holds campaign rally. (click for more)

Edinboro, PA (April 11, 2008) "Hillary is out of touch
with mainstream America," say Pro-Life demonstrators
during a Clinton campaign rally at Edinboro University. (click for more)

By Tim Broderick
Director, People for Life

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Mercyhurst students were among the 150 people protesting the Hillary Clinton campaign appearance

(April 1, 2008) Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA hosted a campaign visit today by pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Unfortunately, Mercyhurst identifies, albeit to varying degrees at different times and places, with the Roman Catholic Church.

But the R.C. Church acknowledges as a matter of objective truth that abortion is essentially the murder of an innocent, defenseless human being. That is, the R.C. Church chooses not to ignore the obvious.

Mercyhurst, were it merely a generic, faith-based institution might choose to believe otherwise. Mercyhurst perhaps for political reasons might choose to pretend otherwise. But Mercyhurst cannot, with any intellectual or moral credibility simultaneously admit the simple, commonsense truth, which the R.C. Church has famously chosen not to ignore -- that abortion is murder -- while facilitating the political campaign of an extreme abortion proponent. Nor can Mercyhurst credibly describe abortion -- murder, that is -- as a "single issue." Since when is murder an "issue," anyway? Nor can Mercyhurst credibly advocate approaching the candidacy of a proponent of abortion -- murder, that is -- with an "open mind."

Sheep led to the slaughter of innocent babies The Mercyhurst administration tried to pass off the campaign rally as an educational event for the students. Long lines of democratic party faithful illustrate the absurdity of the pretext.

Mercyhurst administration: What about other "single issues"? Would the Mercyhurst "tradition of openness and understanding" compel you to facilitate a rally for the "historic" presidential campaign of an extreme proponent of legal racism, an extreme proponent of legal genocide, or an extreme proponent of legal air and water pollution?