University backs hooligans (Canada).

Vancouver--One of the paradoxes of our time is that people who emphasize the simple, scientific fact that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being comes into existence, are looked on as fanatics, religious fundamentalists, even though this proposition by itself has nothing to do with religion. Curiously, the place where this fact is most unwelcome is in an institution supposedly devoted to the pursuit of truth--the university.

On November 23, 1999, a pro-life display at the University of British Columbia (UBC) which had been up for three hours with the permission of the administration, was ripped to shreds by three hooligans from the Alma Mater society. One, Erin Kaiser, also represented "Students for Choice"; another, Jon Chandler, is a representative of "Students for fair treatment". Allowing neither choice nor fair treatment, they tore up the displays, scattering them all over the ground.

Two months earlier, the University itself had set an impossible fee of $10,000 per day plus a $5,000 deposit against possible damages, to bar a perfectly respectable organization from promoting a 'reform of bioethics' conference including the display of photos of aborted babies.

UBC never explained why the group--which has held conferences and displays on university campuses in the past without the slightest disturbance--suddenly had become a "security" risk. Nor has the administration done anything about the three hooligans.

In short, at UBC, a politically correct administration bows to the threat of violence from the pro-abortionists, while accusing pro-life of disturbing the peace.