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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: Contraception Personalis

EDITORIAL: Contraception Personalis

By The Editorial Board February 4, 2023

While Georgetown University’s Catholic, Jesuit values guide its mission of education and advocacy, it is also using these values to support its stance on unpopular, unsafe campus policies. Georgetown’s...

RIGHT TO LIFE/FACEBOOK | Conservative-leaning student groups like GU Right to Life report being stigmatized for displaying their views while tabling in Red Square. Students have reported getting glares from passerby.

Conservative Faculty, Student Voices Feel Underrepresented at GU

By Daria Crawford and Angela Perez February 14, 2020

During the 2016 presidential campaign, professor Michael Czinkota, a self-identifying conservative who teaches classes in international trade and international business in the McDonough School of Business,...

GU Prevents Abortion Education Workshop From Taking Place on Campus

GU Prevents Abortion Education Workshop From Taking Place on Campus

By Elizabeth Brenneman February 7, 2020

Georgetown University revoked the room reservation for an abortion education workshop planned by pro-abortion rights student group H*yas for Choice on Jan. 21, forcing the event to take place off campus. HFC...

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Toeing the Line: Free Speech and Sex on Campus

By Lisa Burgoa October 13, 2017

When professor Derek Goldman was directing “In The Next Room, or the vibrator play” last spring, he was acutely aware that, to some on campus, the production would appear salacious at first blush....

COURTESY MYLAN METZGER
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...

COURTESY ORDER & LIBERTY
The non-profit publication Order & Liberty was founded by Georgetown students and offers conservative commentary to inform debate on campuses around the nation.

‘Order & Liberty’ Comes to Georgetown

By Jack Segelstein November 4, 2016

Last month, the founding of The Georgetown Review, Georgetown’s first-ever daily conservative publication, and the Georgetown University Right to Life chalking incident prompted campus-wide reflection...

EDITORIAL: Maintain Effective Expression

By Editorial Board November 2, 2016

In 1989, when Georgetown University first implemented its policy for free speech and expression, Rev. James Walsh, S.J., its creator, explained that at the very core of a university is the “untrammelled...

COURTESY GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RIGHT TO LIFE
Activist and author Alveda King, who is the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the importance of respecting human life and differing anti-abortion advocacy efforts with over 20 students in Copley Formal Lounge on Tuesday.

Author, Activist Discusses Civil Rights for Unborn

By Ellen Baker September 9, 2016

Activist and author Alveda King, who is the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., advocated the importance of respecting all forms of human life in an event entitled “Civil Rights for the Unborn,” held...

Georgetown Hosts Cecile Richards

Georgetown Hosts Cecile Richards

By Cecia Soza April 22, 2016

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards spoke in Lohrfink Auditorium at Georgetown University, the United States’ oldest Catholic university, Wednesday to call for abortion rights and access...

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...

GU Reacts to Birth Control Mandate

By Matthew Strauss January 26, 2012

In a shift that will force the university to modify health insurance policies, new federal health care regulations will require most religiously affiliated employers to provide contraceptive coverage for...

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