Funny how those who claim to support a “woman’s right to choose” are the ones who are most ardent on silencing voices that don’t wholeheartedly agree…
In a Canadian school, a teacher was fired for stating he personally did not support abortion, even though it was protected by the law.
“The 44-year-old teacher, who has asked that he not be identified to protect what’s left of his career, was teaching ‘the criminal law unit, a lesson on vice, ethics, morality and the law’ to his small class in the Vancouver-area school in late November.
“‘I was working my way through examples of how some people’s sense of personal ethics was more liberal than the letter of the law,’ he said in an email.
“For example, he told them, many people might roll through a stop sign on a deserted country road, deeming it morally acceptable, even if unlawful.
“In other words, he said, in a pluralistic democracy, there’s often “a difference between people’s private morality and the law.
“‘I find abortion to be wrong,’ he said, as another illustration of this gap, ‘but the law is often different from our personal opinions.’
“That was it, the teacher said. ‘It was just a quick exemplar, nothing more. And we moved on.’
“A little later, the class had a five-minute break, and when it resumed, several students didn’t return, among them a popular young woman who had gone to an administrator to complain that what the teacher said had ‘triggered’ her such that she felt “unsafe” and that, in any case, he had no right to an opinion on the subject of abortion because he was a man.”
Punishing any wrongthink concerning abortion goes even further in France, where a commercial from Project Rachel, a “compassionate pro-life project that aids women overcome the grief and guilt some experience from having had an abortion” was banned.
