LA CROSSE — An anti-abortion group is criticizing three college newspapers that refused to run its advertisement that warns students going on spring break about using emergency contraceptives that the ad says can have “deadly” consequences.
Newspapers at 10 other campuses accepted the ad, said Virginia Zignego, a spokeswoman for Brookfield-based Pro-Life Wisconsin, which contends any artificial action that destroys a fertilized egg is akin to abortion.
The Badger Herald on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus ran the ad, according to the Wisconsin State Journal, but the editor of the university’s other student newspaper, the Daily Cardinal, told the State Journal that she was unaware of the ad until she saw it in the Herald.