Stephanie Gray, a member of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (an anti-abortion group), defended her group's side of the abortion debate to members of the campus community last Thursday.
Gray's organization "condemns all abortion related violence and will not associate with groups or individuals who fail to condemn such violence."
According to Gray, the number of abortions in the United States since abortion became legal after Roe v. Wade could completely wipe out the college classes of 1984 to 2004 in the entire nation.
Gray also said that some people believe that a way to describe the unborn is a fetus and not a human being.
"A lot of people say a fetus is not a baby or a human ... it's just a fetus," Gray said. "The truth is that in Latin, fetus means 'young one.'"
The strongest argument for the anti-abortion movement, according to Gray, is that abortion kills human beings and causes an increased risk of breast cancer.
Responding to arguments such as pregnancies that are the result of rape, Gray explained that in 1988, only 1 percent of pregnancies were the result of rapes.
"I felt that Stephanie's speech was very successful," said Alan Griffith, president of AU Students for Life. "It was more aimed at Students for Life members yet it gave the campus community alternative issues on abortion"
