Sewanee to Sponsor Abortion Rights Activist. Really?

In an email sent to the students, faculty and staff on March 2, Visiting Assistant Professor Lima-Neves wrote the following:

/College/ Pinnacle Luncheon Lecture: Women and Reproductive Rights, Tuesday, March 9 @ 12pm

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Terza Lima-Neves <tslimane@sewanee.edu>	Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Reply-To: Terza Lima-Neves To: facstaff@sewanee.edu, classifieds@sewanee.edu, cstudent@sewanee.edu, tstudent@sewanee.edu
A Pinnacle Luncheon in Celebration of International Women’s Month “Realizing Reproductive Justice in the South: A Dubious and Daunting Political Undertaking” By Dr. Tonya Williams, Ph.D. This lecture will address the intractable struggle of women around the world for women’s right to bodily self-determination and equality Tuesday, March 9 at 12:00pm Women’s Center Mary Sue Cushman Room About Dr. Tonya Williams, Ph.D. Dr. Tonya Williams is the first Policy Director at SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW in Atlanta, Georgia and adjunct professor at Clark Atlanta University. She is the co-founder of the US Human Rights Network’s  Hurricane Katrina Internally Displaced Persons Human Rights Campaign and editor of the “Resource Guide and Advocacy Toolkit for Human Rights and Social Justice Activists and Organizations.” This event is free and open to the Sewanee Community. It is organized by the Department of Political Science and co-sponsored by the Women’s Center, Department of International Global Studies, and Women’s Studies Program For more information please contact Terza Lima-Neves at (931) 598-1146 or tslimane@sewanee.edu Terza S Lima-NevesAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Political ScienceSewanee: The University of the South735 University AvenueSewanee, TN 37375Office: Cleveland Annex Suite 5, ex. 1146

It is a little disturbing that the Political Science department,  is endorsing a speaker from Atlanta rallying for a “woman’s right to bodily self determination (abortion).” Should our department really be endorsing this in a religious school?

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