In this program, I will be reading, and commenting on, the articles “Whistleblower at Smith College Resigns Over Racism” by Bari Weiss, which appeared in Common Sense with Bari Weiss on February 19, 2021; “Media Repeat Junk Science Behind Abortion Ban Laws: Check the Science—There is No Heartbeat at Six Weeks” by CARRIE N. BAKER, which appeared in Ms. Magazine on September 7, 2021; and “Pro-choice public writing professor deletes source showing embryos have hearts” by blogger M., which appeared in Secular Pro-Life Perspectives on September 24, 2021.  The articles document how far Smith College has strayed from the institution that its founder, Sophia Smith, had in mind when, in 1870, she stipulated in her Last Will and Testament that her considerable fortune be used to establish a women’s college in which “all the education and all the discipline shall be pervaded by the Spirit of Evangelical Christian Religion.”  The recent events in which acts of racial bigotry, deliberate lying, and callous disregard for the most vulnerable among us, humans in their pre-natal stage of development, reveal how Smith College has strayed far from the ideals that Sophia Smith had envisioned for the college when she founded it.  Smith College’s betrayal of its foundational principles is symbolic of our country’s betrayal of its foundational principles.

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