Serving the Rio Hondo Community
Wednesday October 9, 2019
Volume 59 Issue 3
Students stand up for what they feel is right. ESTEVAN MACIAS Editor-In-Chief
estevan.macias6303@my.riohomndo.edu
On October 7th an anti-aboration group, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, created an outcry at Rio Hondo College. As they set up in the Quad, students began to share their distaste with the graphic images and overall message the group was trying to send out. As they were sharing their stance
on pro-life, pamphlets were passed out with quotes from higher ups of the company advocating the same pro-life messages. The images displayed by the group inculded pictures of genocide, dead fetuses and dying children. These graphics were plastered onto large posters and put on display. This made lots of students begin to question the group, as Freshman Child
Development major Jocelyn Bonilla would go on to tweet “This is what is displayed at Rio Hondo College today. There are MEN going around trying to convince WOMEN they are wrong for their right to their own choice. THIS IS SICKENING and not ok.” Students began to gather around the display to discuss their views on the matter with the speakers.
Some clubs even weighed in on the discussion with the debate team showing up and being encouraged by the other students surrounding the area. Junior James Montez of the Debate team had this to say on the matter “Our debate team was arguing against the logical fallacies displayed in the banners seen on campus. Comparing aboration to genocides such as the holocaust and Rwandan,
they should be ahshamed. You can be pro life without shaming those who have undergone abortions, these are fear mongering tactics that are logically flawed.” The pro-life and pro-choice debate seems to still be an ongoing situation with just two days of a college campus event being the proof of it. TRIGGER WARNING for the next page will feature images explained in this article.