YFL and SFRR spark abortion debate on campus

Yotes For Life (YFL), an anti-abortion student organization at USD, took to campus sidewalks with chalk on Oct. 20 for “National Pro-Life Chalking Day” to spread anti-abortion messages. Students for Reproductive Rights (SFRR), a pro-abortion rights student organization at USD, coincidentally chalked their own beliefs on campus sidewalks later that night. Both organizations provided argumentative […]

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No, the “Pro-Life” Movement is Not Pro-Woman

Ultimately, to be pro-woman is to embrace women as equals, valuing human dignity, bodily autonomy and self-determination. However, the extreme anti-abortion policies plaguing the United States are doing the exact opposite, putting women’s lives at risk. Prior to 1973, abortion was widely criminalized forcing women to turn to alleyways riddled with coat hangers and dingy […]

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Trump isn’t as pro-life as you think

Trump’s base praises him for being pro-life, but he revealed the limits of these virtues this past weekend. While he attended the March for Life, his administration released new visa rules advocating for the very opposite.  The new visa rules aim to restrict birth tourism, which refers to women traveling to another country with the […]

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Yotes For Life, SFRR use films to discuss abortion

Students For Reproductive Rights (SFRR) and Yotes For Life are using the big screen to express their opinions to USD’s students and the Vermillion community. SFRR President Krista Honomichl said the group partnered up with Med Students For Choice in the showing of the 2016 documentary “Trapped” last Monday. Prior to the documentary showing, SFRR […]

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