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GAP display inspires debate
Women's Center, Genocide Awareness Project spread awareness on two sides
Candice Ruud
Issue date: 5/23/08 Section: News
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These images were surrounded by metal barriers as a form of protection against those who might feel inclined to destroy or act out against the GAP, as some have done in the past.
According to the GAP, abortion is genocide. In their pamphlet, handed out to those who walked by in the quad, genocide is defined in Webster's New World Encyclopedia as "The deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, racial religious, political, cultural, ethnic or other group defined by the exterminators as undesirable."
The widely controversial GAP believes that this definition fits perfectly with abortion and that the "national group" described is, in this case, unwanted unborn children.
According to the pamphlet titled "Why Abortion is Genocide," one out of every three unborn children conceived in America is aborted.
"I have family members who have had abortions," said Darius Hardwick, the Northwest regional director for the Center of Bioethical Reform, the center that developed the GAP. "Everyone in my family who has had an abortion is hurting and suffering from it. I don't pile guilt onto them."
On the other side of the quad, the Women's Center set up booths and handed out free condoms and informational packets about Planned Parenthood in protest of the graphic nature of the GAP's display.
Protestors held pro-choice signs that read "My body, my choice" and held wire coat hangers to remind passersby of a time when abortion was illegal and the dangers women faced with "back alley" abortions when they had nowhere to turn.
Now, having an abortion holds less physical risk than having a tonsillectomy, said Megan Nielsen.
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anonymous
posted 5/23/08 @ 9:30 AM PST
The suggestion that these images are offensive is an effort to sterilize and remove ourselves from the reality of choices that we make. As long as we don't have to actually see the six year old kids living in poverty making our shoes, then we can wear them guilt-free, right? It's a matter of informed consent, in my opinion. (Continued…)
Katie Hulse
posted 5/23/08 @ 1:32 PM PST
Informed consent is one thing, but using images whose origin is unknown does not inform the viewer of anything. In fact, the lack of citations makes me wonder about the validity of these images. (Continued…)
Debbie Strong
posted 5/23/08 @ 5:52 PM PST
People who respond by demanding "citations" are in deep denial of what the photographs are portraying. I guess you may be a holocaust denier, too?
Nunley
posted 5/23/08 @ 9:32 PM PST
I don't like the GAP because it makes it too easy for people to prevaricate. Abortion sparks passion in both sides, and on a college campus the GAP doesn't seem efficacious enough where it pretty much comes down to Pro-Choice and Anti-Choice. (Continued…)
Steve
posted 5/26/08 @ 6:30 AM PST
I would like to thank CBR for the GAP project. America needs to wake up and realize the genocide occurring today inside our borders.
Meredith
posted 5/28/08 @ 9:30 AM PST
Isn't the Women's Center an official agency of the University? How is it that the University is taking sides on this issue and teaming up with the radical pro-abortion Planned Parenthood?
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posted 8/18/08 @ 7:28 PM PST
I think it required serious attention
RW
posted 6/04/09 @ 10:23 PM PST
The Women's Center is funded by OSU, though I would argue that it can certainly take a pro-women stand in this debate.
However, that's irrelevant, because the article apparently got it wrong - the people I talked to were from the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, not the Women's Center. (Continued…)
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