So the Educators for Reproductive Rights, collaborating with Students for Choice, sponsor Pro-Choice Day and a panel discussion on Pro-Choice religious views ... and the Enquirer titles their article "Abortion foes stay polite." The article is nearly all about potential confrontation and the well-mannered anti-choice crowd who served cookies outside. What about the polite people inside who coordinated a panel discussion to cultivate informed discussion about controversial issues? What about the panel members and their points of view?
Well, there is this.

For the first time Wednesday, students and faculty organized an abortion rights day at Northern Kentucky University.Information tables occupied the lobby of University Center, and in the ballroom upstairs, four ministers and a rabbi talked about religion's compatibility with reproductive rights. Meanwhile, a few feet outside the building, members of Northern Right to Life passed out their own literature, along with free cookies. To counter the presentation by clergy, they also held up signs quoting Bible verses, such as Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you."

Too bad the panel discussion itself was not covered (the reporter they sent couldn't stay for the event she was to cover; I bet she got some cookies, though). EFRF member Fran Zaniello, who organized the panel and coordinated the day's activities, was quoted in response to questions about the cross-vandalism incident, "It had the effect of saying, 'Wait a minute, people are talking about this. It's time to come forward,' " Anti-Choice advocate Katie Walker, who brought cookies, was given more than equal time to show how polite she is.

"I think it's really great that we're having an exchange of ideas, and people can come and hear both sides," said junior Katie Walker, president of Northern Right to Life.

"We're really trying to keep the hostility out of it," she said. "We offered cookies to the pro-choice people, and they gave us coffee."

Apart from the exchange of refreshments, there was also an exchange of ideas. Oh Enquirer, before you even published the article, I knew what you were going to do.

The Enquirer - Abortion foes stay polite

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