My Last English 225 Paper

The last paper in my English 225 class has been assigned. It is a position paper and I have to take a stance on a certain issue and provide adequate information and defend my stance.

I am writing about the recent events at Northern Kentucky University. A pro-life group, with permission of the school's administration, set up a monument to the fetuses that had been aborted. They called the monument, "Cemetery of the Innocents". Needless to say, the monument received some attention, but not in the way you might think. It did spark some emotions in those who saw it, but the monument got one teacher of NKU so angry that she and some of her students destroyed the monument.

My paper isn't going to be about abortion or abortion rights, it is going to be about freedom of speech. I want to flirt with the thin line that separates one person's freedom of speech from another's. I am going to side with the pro-life group because it was their freedom of speech that was destroyed. The group had permission from the faculty so it was ok for the group to be there. I am going to argue that the professor took censorship into her own hands by destroying the monument. She claims that destroying the monument was her free speech. So I am going to argue whether, destroying one's free speech is another means of free speech. I am also going to argue that emotion is not a valid reason to destroy someone's freedom of speech.

This should be an interesting paper. I am excited to write it because I have often wondered about free speech and when it goes to far.