Other frequent college writing teacher here. It sounds like our subjects and methods are very similar; my intensive focus is always on evidentiary framing and logical support rather than assessing what is objectively true/false, I choose liberal and conservative source material that I expect to be seriously engaged…

I’m really just dying to know how this paper was assessed by the prof. 

This idea that women shouldn’t have sex if they don’t want to get pregnant, and that we have an obligation to carry a pregnancy to term, is so ridiculous and morally repugnant in a free society.

Let’s say his argument is true, and that a fetus has human rights. Let’s go with that for a second.

She wanted an abortion, he wanted her to give birth and then put the infant up for adoption; they argued [and she had the abortion anyway]

So his entire life since then has been one long tantrum?

His first child is dead. The child he he didn’t want to support, by a woman he didn’t want to support in her pregnancy, and wanted to toss away and never think about again. That child?

Keeping evidence of the creepiest wingnuts at university can pay off in the long run. Aren’t we all glad somebody kept footage of just these 3 seconds of Ted Cruz’s performance in The Cruciblatat Princeton (so ironic for a man who looks and behaves like the reincarnation of Sen Joseph McCarthy, as Arthur Miller spins…

Protecting a father’s right to be a father?! He didn’t want the baby! He wanted it to be adopted! If he’d said he would bring the baby up, maybe she’d have continued with the pregnancy. But he didn’t because it would have affected his life, his future, his career prospects.

Man, what a dipshit. My abortion was 100% a factor in my success. If I had carried to term, I would have been a single mother, living at poverty level. I’m now a university professor (and a mom).

I’m 100% certain that there was a not-zero number of female professors, administrators, and the like at his school who had had abortions in their younger days, who, more likely than not, would not be in those positions if not for the abortions. It’s just the law of large numbers.

Old line, prompted originally in response to Rick Santorum if I recall correctly: They want small government, so small in fits inside a uterus.

The thing is...I am absolutely more successful today than I would have been if I hadn’t had an abortion at 16. It was the smartest choice I could have made, not to mention I didn’t want to have a baby. 

This is the real Republican position on women and abortion:

Ask any of the female deans or professors at our school how much abortion was a factor in their success as a female professional. Ask them if having a child spelled mental and financial ruin. I sort of doubt that abortion was a key step on their path to success.

I’m willing to bet one million spacebucks that in his six pages of blaming women and saying that they “shouldn’t have sex if they’re not prepared to give birth”, not once does he say the same thing about men.

Men shouldn’t have sex if they’re not prepared to accept that the woman may get an abortion.

The man who cited the Holocaust now runs an archipelago of concentration camps for children. Get lost, you fucking hypocrite.

“I sort of doubt that abortion was a key step on their path to success.”

Dollars to donuts, the fellow student kept the essay half for the horrifyingly appalling, yet completely unsurprising, Holocaust comparisons and half for the tragicomically terrible writing. That’s super embarrassing.

Yep, Republicans just want to get that dang gubmint’ outta peoples lives.