TO THE EDITOR:
On behalf of Carolina Students for Life, I would like to express our full support for the resolution, which was passed by the Chapel Hill Town Council on Jan. 14, concerning medically inaccurate women’s health information, insofar as it urges the protection of women’s right not to be deceived, coerced or manipulated.
Women are not to be exploited by any agenda and should always be respected, which includes being given medically accurate information.
We also support the council’s decision to strike a passage in one of the introductory paragraphs of the resolution, which declared that facilities offering pregnancy counseling are connected to a “national movement whose mission is to disseminate reproductive health information that does not meet the principles of informed consent.”
Not only was this movement unnamed and vague, but the falsely attributed motive of deception to what can be implied as the pro-life movement offends us, especially when Chapel Hill’s own Pregnancy Support Services neither deceives nor manipulates women, but rather provides accurate information that empowers women to make a fully informed decision.
Ms. Buckley is right — this resolution is not about pro-life versus pro-choice.
It’s about ensuring that women are respected and recognizing that they deserve to be correctly informed.
Sarah Urdzik ’13
President
Carolina Students for Life
