The Psychology Club held a discussion titled “Pro-life, Pro-Choice,” that focused on educating students about the conception of abortion on Tuesday in the Social Science Building.

More than 25 people attended who were questioning the difference between pro-choice and pro-life.

Pro-life is when a person who is opposed to abortion and believes in the right to life. In addition, it is also advocating full legal protection of human embryos or fetuses.

Pro-choice is a person who is supporting or advocating legalizing abortion. That is favoring the supporting right of women and girls to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy to term.

During the discussion, Mario San Juan, English major, said that it is important not to impose opinions to others.

“If I were a woman I would have to say that nobody knows your body like you do.” Moreover, he said that people tend to input philosophical spin on what a women should do to the body.

Tracy Garcia, undecided major ,agreed but there was also something else of importance about learning about who is pro-life and pro-choice.

“We as a society have to be well-educated about both pro-choice and pro-life as well that there are Plan B which, is contraception.”

She added that currently in high schools there are no sex education classes and urged that students write to representatives and official sto have those classes.

Stem cell research was also another topic of discussion.

According to, www.stemcells.nih.gov , currently California’s stem cell agency said it will give out $75.7 million in research grants, a move that will help scientists get around federal funding restrictions on human embryonic research. Afterward, students such as Cecilia Morales, business administration and psychology major, said that in hearing about the different between both pro-choice and pro-life said that she’s for life itself.

“That’s what I believe in,” she said, “and there are people who do need to be educated about what it means to have an abortion.”

Also, she said that the government has no right to tell a woman when to have an abortion.

She was referring to Proposition 85 that was defeated last November that would have given parent notification of a child who will have an abortion.

Morales said that women have the right to terminate the pregnancy if she wanted to.

Mayra Gutierrez, psychology major, questioned a double standard concerning people who are pro-life.

“There are people out there that say that they believe in having a baby live, but are for the death penalty and that’s not right.”

For her, it was either one or none of both. Women who decided not to keep their babies also tend to think that adoption is the only option.

“It’s not always the option because there are children who never get adopted.”