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(LifeSiteNews) — Legally protecting preborn babies from abortion could lead to a future of “cannibalism” and “forced breeding camps,” an Arizona State University (ASU) English professor recently claimed at a campus event inadvertently highlighting the extent to which academia is conditioning future generations to fear pro-life laws.
Jennifer Irish is an associated professor of English whose areas of expertise are identified as creative writing in fiction and poetry as well as community literacy. On August 28, she hosted a campus workshop on “a speculative future” for so-called “reproductive rights,” featuring registered nurse and “community advocate” Angela Lober, director of the Academy of Lactation Programs at ASU’s Edson College of Nursing & Health Innovation.
The event began with a reading from Irish’s collection of poems “trac[ing] the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species,” which “engages with the most pressing concerns of this contemporary sociopolitical moment,” including so-called “reproductive rights, climate crises, and mass extinction; gender and racial bias in healthcare and technology; disinformation, conspiracy theories, and pseudoscience; and
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