[Sly Fox]

Anybody on here participating in this?

Abortion Debate Live on the Internet Tuesday



From David Steinberg:

We The Students invites you to log on to our website www.wethestudents.tv to view our live interactive debate between the Liberty University and the University of Vermont this Tuesday April 1st at 9:00PM EST debating “Abortion”.

The series is made possible by a grant to our university television program -- "We the Students" -- from UM Ethics Programs with a gift from philanthropist Adrienne Arsht to support work on "ethics and community." Any student can be a part of the 25 minute show which features top college debaters from across the country by signing on to our website using their name and academic institution. Audience members can participate in this national chat room with other university students by discussing the issues presented live on the show. The online audience will also be able to ask their own questions for the debaters and the moderator to discuss live.

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[ALUmnus]

Does it say anywhere which position LU will be given?

[AZjonz]

While I am not participating in this, I did have the abortion debate (while debating for Liberty) against Vermont, kind-of. My teammate and I hit a Vermont team at a tournament. The topic was US Government giving developmental assistance to the horn of Africa. Their case was to provide a Planned Parenthood type of organizations to these countries. They argued that women can’t get abortions: therefore, all these horrible things happen over there.

We didn’t have any real evidence and were not prepared to debate abortion. This case seemed to be off topic. To cover ourselves, we argued a Marxism critique (or Kritik, or “K” if you want the debate lingo). It was simple; you (Vermont case) provide assistance to Africa by the US thereby allowing a capitalist country to take root. We argued that capitalism is horrible and all those horrible things your case is supposed to solve will only actually get worse. (This is just an overview)

We ended up winning; which was surprising as the Marxism argument in debate is quite antiquated. Oh well, we won. The best part, this Vermont team was looking to have the abortion debate, and we didn’t go anywhere near it.