Georgetown students chain themselves to statue to protest no-condom policy

Photo by Lexie Herman, from Vox Populi
This weekend, Georgetown students protested the campus’ anti-choice policies by chaining themselves to a campus statue during tours by prospective students.

As groups of prospective students and their parents toured Georgetown University Saturday afternoon, three current students put tape over their mouths and chained themselves to a statue of the Catholic college’s founder.
The president of the campus’s unofficial pro-choice group yelled into a megaphone: “We are unofficial because Georgetown refuses to take care of the sexual health of its students.” Two other students held a huge banner with a message for university president John J. DeGioia: “Take the tape off our mouths and the chains off our bodies.”

Way to go Georgetown! I have spoken at Georgetown during the unofficial Choice Week, and the student organizers are amazing. They face serious hostility, in addition to protesters at all their events and no campus recognition for their groups. The group is calling it’s most recent campaign “Plan A: Students for Reproductive Justice.”
The anti-choice policies (which also exist at other Catholic campuses around the nation) mean that students must go off campus for condoms and birth control.
UPDATE: Community blogger kmitch88 has more, including a video of the protest.