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Annual Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Campus Discourse

Annual Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Campus Discourse

By Maren Fagan January 24, 2024

The 25th annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life (OCC) united prominent Catholic clergy, advocacy experts and students to discuss the state of anti-abortion politics and the sanctity of human life...

EDITORIAL: Stop One-Sided Discourse

EDITORIAL: Stop One-Sided Discourse

By The Editorial Board January 19, 2024

Georgetown University’s campus will host two panel discussions about abortion and reproductive healthcare this week. One event, the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life (OCC), the nation’s largest...

VIEWPOINT: Resist Anti-Abortion Rhetoric on Campus

VIEWPOINT: Resist Anti-Abortion Rhetoric on Campus

By Micaeli Dym February 24, 2023

On Jan. 21, members of the Georgetown University student body gathered as a community to protest one of the largest anti-abortion conferences in the United States — the Cardinal O’Connor Conference...

Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Student Opposition

Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Student Opposition

By Nina Raj and Michelle Vassilev January 31, 2023

Students and campus groups came together in protest after Georgetown University hosted and sponsored the largest student-run anti-abortion conference in the nation. The Cardinal O’Connor Conference...

H*yas for Choice Reinvents Reproductive Justice, Sexual Health for a Virtual Environment

H*yas for Choice Reinvents Reproductive Justice, Sexual Health for a Virtual Environment

By Eva Sofia Esposito April 15, 2021

What happens to a club known for handing out free contraceptives when campus life grinds to a halt because of COVID-19? To Josie Mills (COL ’21), one of two directors of advocacy and organizing for...

EDITORIAL: End University Sponsorship of O’Connor Conference

EDITORIAL: End University Sponsorship of O’Connor Conference

By The Editorial Board January 29, 2021

At Georgetown University, a school that prides itself on justice and inclusivity, bigoted speakers should never receive backing from official university sources. Georgetown has a clear duty, according...

H*yas for Choice Petitions GU To Condemn OCC Speakers, Change Name

H*yas for Choice Petitions GU To Condemn OCC Speakers, Change Name

By Claire Stowe January 27, 2021

Over 600 Georgetown University community members have signed a petition circulated by pro-abortion rights student group H*yas for Choice in anticipation of the 22nd Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life. The...

Anti-Abortion Conference Draws Student Demonstrators

Anti-Abortion Conference Draws Student Demonstrators

By Anna Ferrazzi January 31, 2020

As students protested outside Healy Hall, speakers at the 21st annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life discussed the intersection of law, morality and human dignity within the anti-abortion argument...

Cardinal O’Connor Conference Examines Pro-Life Priorities

By Grey Rosenzweig January 25, 2019

The acceptance of the legalization of abortion stems from materialist culture, which prioritizes personal convenience over the lives of others, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said in a...

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Georgetown hosted the 2017 Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, the largest student-organized anti-abortion conference in the United States on Monday.

Anti-Abortion Activists Convene for Conference

By Joe Egler January 31, 2017

The 2017 Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, the largest student-organized anti-abortion conference in the United States, focused on “working toward a truly pro-life politics,” Saturday in...

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The 16th Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life took place Saturday, and saw uninterrupted protest from H*yas for Choice.

H*yas for Choice Leads 8-Hour Protest

By Emma Rizk January 27, 2015

As approximately 500 people gathered for the 16th Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life in Gaston Hall on Saturday, around 20 members of H*yas for Choice, a pro-choice student group unaffiliated...

Conference Draws Pro-Life Advocates

By Zosia Dunn January 29, 2013

Pro-life advocate Helen Alvaré opened a discussion of ideology and best practices at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life in Gaston Hall Saturday. The conference attracted about 650 students...

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