My daughter, who is a junior, is very passionate about it, and that’s all that matters to me. She may or may not be disabused of that in college, we live in a very liberal state and she’d like to at least explore it with like minded people.
That said, since her area of study is broad, she would like to start the process with campuses that have those groups, but finding that is hard. Plus, we’re Jewish, so we want to vet them for any theological bent. I’ve looked on the Students for Life website, but they don’t have a chapter list.
If you know of where to find one, or if your kid is involved with one, I’d appreciate any help I can get.
University of South Carolina has one. I know through FB that a former student from my kids’ HS goes there and has participated. I looked and it’s Students for Life.
Certainly any college that attracts a lot of observant Jews is going to have some sort of student pro-life organization with lots of Jewish members, maybe even one that is specifically Jewish.
My guess is that the number of Jews in these organizations is going to be very small to non existent. The highly observant Jews I know are not pro choice at all but do allow for abortion in cases involving the life of the mother and many orthodox Rabbis also believe that it is permissible based on serious health concerns including for some mental health issues. I don’t know how your daughters views comport with all of this or if her views may differ than the mostly Christian students. It is something she may want to explore.
I also assume most schools would have one. William and Mary has both pro-life and pro-choice groups. They each had a booth at the activities fair on admitted students day, and were chatting happily with new students. Booths were near each other and there was no problem whatsoever.
@maya54 The one that started this journey for her was Butler, and I did reach out to see whether their advocacy was faith based or secular/scientific. They responded that the only faith based events are once a year. I am assuming this could vary from region/student body and that will need to be part of this research.
To everyone else, thanks for your leads. I have to admit I’m surprised that Berkeley and Harvard have them.
The University of Michigan has a Students for Life group, as well as a Students for Choice group. I think you’ll find that on the campus of any large or even moderately large school. Contrary to what you sometimes hear, student opinion is diverse on almost any campus of a secular school, though certain views may predominate on some questions. Students generally have freedom to associate within very broad boundaries, with or without institutional support, so on issues like this where passions tend to run strong on both sides, you’re likely to find competing organizations. And even where there are no formal organizations, religiously motivated students usually have little difficulty finding like-minded students of their own faith.
Basically, all of them. I’m not sure what good a list is going to do since it would be the vast majority of residential (and even most commuter) colleges.
Despite what certain media talking heads posit, there are conservatives on every campus and if the likes of Michigan and Berkeley have pro-“life” groups then all except (maybe) the very tiny liberal colleges are going to have them.