A blow against free speech at Oxford

Just read this article at Vox on how a debate about abortion at Oxford University was cancelled due to .

'm pro-choice but I think it is deplorable that people should try and stop a debate on an issue. The person got the event cancelled said:

The idea that in a free society absolutely everything should be open to debate has a detrimental effect on marginalised groups. abortion as if its a topic to be mulled over and hypothesised on ignores the fact that this is not an abstract, academic issue.

How appalling. By her logic we should not debate immigration, , or pretty much anything because they are not abstract academic issues. These are the issues we should be debating.

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