(Fall 2022) CPC Activist Zine
Distributed at a student-led protest in support of banning CPCs, this zine provides information about why CPCs are harmful and advises readers to avoid the CPC in Middlebury, at this time operating under the name “The Women’s Center.”
Elissa Asch
Sep 18, 2022
(Fall 2022) VT Digger Article Covering Student Protests to Ban CPCs from the Student Activities Fair
This article, written by Juliet Schulman-Hall, describes the events of the protests and quotes several student activists as well as Sarah Ray, Middlebury College Director of Media Relations. It also features photographs from the event.
Juliet Schulman-Hall
Sep 20, 2022
(2022) NESCAC Coalition to Ban CPCs Petition
Petition organized by Elissa Asch (2022.5) in an effort to ban CPCs from all colleges in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The petition includes information on CPCs and allows the option to add a statement to the petition on behalf of a student organization, student government, academic department, etc.
Elissa Asch
Summer 2022
(Fall 2022) Activity Fair Demonstration Poster
This poster was distributed across the Middlebury campus to advertise for the upcoming demonstration to ban crisis pregnancy centers from the activities fair. It provides information for an organizing meeting a few days before the demonstration as well as the time of the demonstration itself.
Elissa Asch
Sep 14, 2022
(Fall 2022) Signatures from a Petition in Support of Banning CPCs from the Middlebury Campus
Petition organized by Elissa Asch (2022.5) in an effort to ban CPCs from the Middlebury College campus. Signatures include students, faculty, staff, and community members from the Middlebury community as well as various other colleges and universities in the Northeastern U.S. (NESCAC Conference).
Elissa Asch
Sep 14, 2022
(Fall 2022) Statements from Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Members in Support of Banning CPCs from our Campus
Various statements expressing passionate discontent surrounding the continued existence of CPCs in Middlebury. Each statement discusses a specific argument against CPCs and/or includes a broad statement of support from an individual or group.
Elissa Asch
Sep 14, 2022
Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) in a Time of Crisis
This website was created by a group of students as a part of Professor Carly Thomsen’s “Politics of Reproduction” class in the spring of 2020. The website provides information on CPCs and focuses on CPCs’ online presence during the coronavirus pandemic. In making the website, students Emily Kerstein, Elva Osorio, Grace Vedock, and Joan Vera communicated with CPCs near their respective hometowns using phone or chat functions, posing as pregnant people looking for information about pregnancy and abortion. Transcriptions of their chats are included here (as well as on the website: https://gvedock.wixsite.com/crisiscpcs).
Emily Kerstein, Elva Osorio, Grace Vedock, and Joan Vera
Spring 2020
(2020) Oral History of Grace Vedock, Taite Shomo, and Professor Carly Thomsen
This is an oral history conducted by Sophie Hochman for Professor of Religion Justin Doran’s class “Religion and Capitalism.” Hochman interviewed Grace Vedock ‘20 and Taite Shomo ‘20.5, two students involved in the 2018 effort to ban CPCs from Middlebury, and Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies Professor Carly Thomsen, who served as their advisor for this project. Each of the interviewees describes their role in the effort to ban CPCs as well as the resistance they met from the college.
Sophie Hochman
December 10, 2020