Facts don’t care about your feelings, and many abortion supporters, unfortunately, don’t care about facts — or being respectful of others. In an increasing number of cases, the facts actually make the abortion lobby flip out and act aggressively. That’s what we saw at Harvard University when an abortion supporter actually chose flipping our table over to finding common ground in discussion.  

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As part of Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) Fall 2025 All Human Life is Valuable National Campus Tour, the SFLA team and our pro-life student group on campus were recently tabling outside of the Harvard Science Center. The purpose of this new tour is to expand upon the truth that there is one defining quality that gives everyone, no matter who they are, equal value: our humanity. By basing our value on arbitrary characteristics (like viability, consciousness, age, race, religion, location, etc.), the door is wide open for blatant discrimination.  

Ironically, blatant discrimination based upon our pro-life beliefs is what we got.  

Jessica Power, SFLA New England Regional Coordinator, reported: “We were basically at the end of our tabling event (thank goodness), and I was next to the table talking to a student. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw this woman in her thirties approach the table, pushing a stroller with a child in it. I heard her ask my students if they were in charge of this table and if they were students, and when they responded positively, she said, “That is embarrassing.” She then pointed to her child and said, “See him? If it wasn’t for my abortion, he wouldn’t be here. I almost died.” No one saw it coming that she would then flip the table angrily before quickly storming off.  

“Many people have been hurt by abortion, especially in a region like New England. However, through our tour, all we are trying to express is that ALL human life is valuable, including BOTH baby and mom. If this woman had been willing to dialogue with us, instead of acting violently towards us, we could have shown her that we do care about her and hearing her point of view. Acts of violence will never build bridges; they will only continue to divide our nation.”  

The pain of abortion can scar men and women for years, often boiling within them and coming to the surface in bouts of sadness, despair, and anger. SFLA believes that life-affirming care should be extended to all, including the post-abortive, and that’s why our team and students are always armed with post-abortive healing resources, especially Standing With You.  

Additionally, it is important to note that direct abortion is never medically necessary. Life-saving care for a mother may unfortunately sometimes mean a preborn child dies unintentionally in the process (and that may be what this woman experienced), but that’s different from the specific act of purposely killing a baby. It is also wrong to misconstrue a miscarriage as an abortion. Are miscarriages called “spontaneous abortions” in a medical setting? Yes — but our culture has twisted this to make women who have painfully and unintentionally lost their children feel as though they are a part of the side that endorses death on the demand. Let the record show: they are not the same.   

Elizabeth, the President of the Harvard Right to Life group on campus, also shared that the woman yelled an expletive at the group before leaving quickly. She found the entire incident “shocking.”   

She said, “In light of recent events, this incident reflects the tendency of many to react aggressively, and in some cases, with tragic violence, when confronted with the truth. I can’t imagine the woman’s lasting pain from her abortion and how the images and facts about early human life on display might have intensified that pain. But her actions don’t solve anything. 

“I wish I could tell her that being pro-life means caring both for the baby and for the woman, and I would want to offer her pro-life resources. While I am unable to do so, I will continue to pray for her and her children.”  

There is nothing wrong with a passionate debate over today’s issues. That’s exactly what we’re looking for when we go out on campus to discuss abortion with those who support it — with the end goal, of course, that we change hearts and minds to value life. This is putting our free speech to good use. 

Aggression and violence, on the other hand, have no place whatsoever. 

Pro-life students and speakers shouldn’t have to worry about safety concerns or that their property may be destroyed or stolen just for sharing their life-affirming beliefs (click HERE to read about a pro-abortion student stealing another group’s poster for a Charlie Kirk prayer vigil). Unfortunately, this is where we find ourselves today. The radical abortion lobby isn’t holding back.  

Their disdain for anyone who inconveniences them is open and ugly. A preborn baby who might “mess up” (read: change) their life? Abort them. A born pro-lifer who is saying “embarrassing” (read: true) things? Silence them.  

No matter how abortion supporters “flip out,” the Pro-Life Generation will not be silent.  

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