Spring Break
Genocide Awareness Project returns
Controversial quad display makes another appearance; pro-choice group responds
Lisa Riordan
Issue date: 5/17/07 Section: News
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"I totally support this! I'm just glad someone's finally saying it's wrong. Abortion is so wrong!" said a student readying herself to sign a petition to ban the Genocide Awareness Project from the OSU campus.
The student's declaration was met with stunned silence and after a few seconds one staffer directed the student to GAP representatives.
The Women's Center display denounced the Genocide Awareness Project and its use of the term 'genocide' to describe abortions. The Women's Center is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse either side of the abortion debate. Its staff, however, are opposed to the term 'genocide' being used to describe abortion.
Staff members believe that abortion is not genocide. The Women's Center staff had created displays that showed what they said genocide really was.
The Center for Bioethical Reform is the creator of the Genocide Awareness Project is a not-for-profit company operating through private donations.
The center's director and OSU alumnus, Dan Cooper, conceded that most donations come from evangelical sources.
"We want to stimulate debate about abortion... but it should be an informed debate," Cooper said. "Students need to know two things - the humanity of the unborn and the inhumanity of abortion."
CBR supports abortion only when the mother's life is in danger and the fetus does not stand a chance of survival.
GAP's first public appearance was in 1988 at Pennsylvania State University. Expanding to include to OSU in fall of 1999, the anti-abortion demonstration has incited strong reaction from both pro-choice and pro-life supporters. Its first sponsors were the Campus Crusade for Christ and the Varsity House.
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Dale Williams
posted 5/17/07 @ 8:29 AM PST
Thank you to the students that objected to the anti-abortion propaganda yesterday! I am deeply offended that OSU would allow this type of demonstration to take place on campus; afterall it is funded by the religious right. (Continued…)
H.M.
Holly
posted 5/17/07 @ 8:30 AM PST
I am a Christian and am against the practice of abortion. This said, I, myself was ultimately disturbed by the images shown in the MU quad on Wednesday. (Continued…)
Tania Porter
posted 5/17/07 @ 8:52 AM PST
What both sides of the abortion debate keep forgetting is that NO ONE IS PRO-ABORTION. The goal of both sides is to educate women about their choices and options. (Continued…)
Jacob Jennings
posted 5/17/07 @ 10:41 AM PST
Thank you for your article. I love games and had a great time picking out facts from the rest of the stuff you put in there.
Dennis
posted 5/17/07 @ 11:08 AM PST
Two questions for the Baro staff:
1) Why are the pro-choice folks labeled "rioters" in the photo caption? Did they actually riot? That seems highly unlikely, and if they did, why isn't their rioting part of the story?
2) Is there any evidence for the assertion that there were "violence issues" a few years ago? How many years is a few? I was student at OSU from 2001-2006, and I paid attention to the GAP every year, and I can remember no violence - though the fence and campus police have been there for at least six years now. (Continued…)
Brett
posted 5/17/07 @ 4:47 PM PST
I'm against abortion, especially as a means of birth control. I don't think Roe V Wade should have ever been taken to the Supreme Court because subjects like abortion should be reserved for the states. (Continued…)
Dennis
posted 5/17/07 @ 5:58 PM PST
Lisa,
Thanks for answering - and I know you don't write the captions, which is why I addressed the question to the Baro staff and not you.
As for the second, I guess I'm still curious and/or skeptical: I can't imagine the vandalism, physical threats, or violence involving the GAP folks not making it into the Barometer. (Continued…)
Marie
posted 5/17/07 @ 6:02 PM PST
"The Women's Center is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse either side of the abortion debate."
That is the most frigging hilarious thing I've ever seen. (Continued…)
Holly
posted 5/17/07 @ 6:29 PM PST
Immediately after writing my first post this morning, this passage came across my mind:
"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (Continued…)
Larry S
posted 5/17/07 @ 6:38 PM PST
It seems that most every discussion of abortion includes the rejoinder that abortion would be permitted in the case where the mother's life is in danger. (Continued…)
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