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Pro-Life Inserts Finally in Marquette University Official Newspaper
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Thursday, May 01, 2008


For Immediate Release
May 1, 2008

Contact: Virginia Zignego, Pro-Life Wisconsin Communications Director, (262) 796-1111
Jillian Roemer, Human Life Alliance Distribution Coordinator, (651) 484-1040

Pro-Life Inserts Finally in Marquette University Official Newspaper


Marquette University’s official newspaper, The Marquette Tribune, is running the pro-life insert Trapped… in today’s edition.

Pro-Life Wisconsin has been recently working with Human Life Alliance to place educational inserts about abortion in college newspapers. The Marquette Tribune originally expressed reservations about accepting the insert as printed, raising questions about the description of abortion methods, a photo depicting an in utero corrective procedure and an explanation of the birth control/abortion connection.

“It is absolutely crucial to show Marquette students the horror of abortion. We are delighted the insert is in the May 1 edition of The Marquette Tribune,” said Virginia Zignego, Communications Director for Pro-Life Wisconsin. “I would like to thank everyone who contacted Marquette University to express their confusion with the editors’ inclination not to accept the insert as printed.”

“While we are grateful all the details were finally worked out and the insert was accepted as printed, it needs to be known this was not an easy task. We faced numerous roadblocks that were unnecessary and uncalled for... especially from a Catholic university,” said Jillian Roemer, Distribution Coordinator for Human Life Alliance.

The inserts recently ran in UW-Madison’s Daily Cardinal newspaper as well.

The 12-page inserts, called Trapped…, are a compelling pro-life resource designed to educate people about abortion. The solid pro-life content challenges individuals to re-think their ideas about abortion, premarital sex and the humanity of the unborn child.