UH Abortion Statue

As a University of Houston alumna myself (class of 2018), I can't say I'm entirely surprised by the installation of such an unsightly statue on campus.

My time at UH was spent in hiding for the most part. I never told anyone my political beliefs out of fear of what the repercussions might be. The students and faculty around me were very much on the left side of the political spectrum and had no problem publicly hurling insults and incorrect assumptions about the other side during lectures or in casual conversation.

I do regret never speaking up during my college years. All I wanted during those moments was for someone to stand up and share a different perspective for a change – not realizing that that person could be me.

How poetic that years later, I'd be speaking on a stage at this very campus defending one of my most core beliefs in front of a hundred people: abortion is not the solution.

The statue makes reference to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg – a very pro-abortion Supreme Court justice – in the artist's attempt to call attention to "a time when women's reproductive rights are under siege."

We cannot allow statues like these that clearly support abortion to be installed on our public universities unchallenged. Pro-abortion messaging is being fed into our children's schools and universities, integrated into our entertainment and pop culture, and placed front and center in our elections.

We cannot stay silent when countless innocent human lives are being destroyed every day. We cannot hide because we're too scared of what they might say about us.

When someone from work says that abortion is health care, don't hide.

When a family member claims that pro-lifers only care about the baby, don't hide.

When a friend complains that the government wants to control women, don't hide.

When a public university installs an 18-foot statue resembling the baphomet that glorifies abortion, don't hide.

We must be visibly pro-life in our everyday lives.

The pro-life position is not a radical one to be embarrassed or ashamed of.

The pro-life position is that all human beings are equally deserving of life from the moment of conception until their natural death.

Intentionally killing an innocent human being is not the solution, and it's never okay.

– Elyssa Mushinski

Communications Director 

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