The Review

Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: News

Pro-life activist Star Parker spoke to approximately 30 students this week.

A pro-life activist speaking at the university said Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case which legalized abortion, should be overturned.

Star Parker, a conservative advocate and author, voiced her opinions about the controversial subject to approximately 30 students and faculty on Tuesday night in Smith Hall. The lecture was sponsored by Pro-Life Vanguard.

When she was living in Los Angeles, Parker said she was unemployed and on welfare. She also had four abortions.

She said many women living in the projects stay pregnant as long as they can so they can receive welfare checks. Then, they get a last-minute abortion.

"People are in denial that it is a child," Parker said. "But it has a soul, a spirit."

She said at one point, she decided she would not get another abortion.

"It's just not that simple," Parker said. "We've become dead to abortion."

After she decided not to have another abortion, Parker said she had a child and went into the welfare system for three and a half years. The pattern continued.

"Legislators have the mentality those on welfare are permanently in this state," she said. "Dignity is stolen when you're in the welfare system."

Parker said she wanted to get out of the welfare system, so she began to work under the table. She said small business owners often employ illegal workers in order to make money.

At her job, Parker said she met men who said her behavior was unacceptable to God.

"For the first time in my life, I looked at myself and what I was doing," she said.

Now, Parker said she is a conservative Republican and pro-life advocate.

She said Roe v. Wade must be overturned because abortion hurts several groups of people.

Abortion affects children tremendously, Parker said; adding sixty-five percent of kids are in broken homes in the United States.

"Families must have a male and female to have a sense of stability in their lives," she said.

Senior Rosie Seagraves, president of Students Acting for Gender Equality, stated in an e-mail message that Americans should embrace increasingly diverse households.

"Exclusionary views which espouse the heterosexist, patriarchal familial structure do little to address the complexity and inequality of our increasingly diverse society," Seagraves said.

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