Anti-Abortion Images Go Beyond Free Speech

[Neoma]

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The horrifically named Genocide Awareness Project, also known as GAP, came on campus on Monday and Tuesday bearing banners portraying graphic images of aborted fetuses next to those of victims of genocide. The organization's display was set up on Fairfield Way, a central location on campus right next to the Student Union. This meant that anyone walking in the center of campus had no choice but to see these images. Additionally, the group had a truck with an image of an aborted fetus that was driven around campus.
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Protesters gathered on Tuesday to try and reason with GAP members, asking that they at least take into consideration the emotional health of students, but they refused to stop displaying these images. This showed that they don't actually want to have an informed, civil discussion, but rather want to traumatize people who may have had abortions or might be facing such a decision. Students were arrested for protesting, allegedly for trespassing. Afterward, the GAP organizers erected a barrier that took up most of Fairfield Way, essentially preventing students from going up to them and attempting to engage in productive discourse.

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/hc-op-fresh-talk-luo-pro-choice-against-graphic-im-20120417,0,6699187.story

[Politicalboi]

1. Those pictures are offensive

They are so worried about "the children". What kind of nightmares do children have after seeing one of those pictures. Good on the 2 brave kids who tried to stop this. And shame on the school for allowing it. I wonder if they would allow nude pictures on campus.

[Warpy]

2. It's especially annoying because their pictures represent LIES

Were they to show things life sized at the usual time a woman seeks an abortion, it wouldn't be nearly offensive. Of course, if they tell the truth, they undercut their own stupid arguments, all based on lies and twisting what they think is the word of gawd.

I could forgive people for being antiabortion (some of them are just sentimental slobs who love babies) a lot more easily if the most godly among them didn't feel compelled to LIE.

Dismembered full term babies are a LIE.

[Gormy Cuss]

11. +1

[Nikia]

13. A little less graphic display on a Wisconsin state highway lies about the morning after pill

In that it shows a fetus that is probably early second trimester that says "All life is precious. The morning after pill destroys life."
An uneducated person would conclude that the morning after pill is for aborting a fetus that already has limbs and fingers and toes when the reality is that it prevents the implantation of the group of cells that has no organ differentiation.
I hope that there aren't too many people who, have taken the morning after pill that see that, that think that they are actually having a second trimester abortion.

[mindwalker_i]

3. People should get some pictures of Octomom and the conditions her cdhidren were in

And hold those up saying, please, abortion is sometime the least cruel choice.

[libodem]

9. Why don't those protesters

Go protest fertility clinics for creating so many extra embryos that are potentially a life. Wonder how many are dumped or used for research?

[One_Life_To_Give]

4. Disgusting but protected speach

The roads thru UCONN's campus are public roadways. Don't know that you could stop this without shredding the Constitution.

[Neoma]

5. It could be construed as hate speech at a certain point.

I mean, in the sense that it provokes anti-abortion violence.

[ismnotwasm]

6. I still want to send

My monthly 'sanitary napkins' to those assholes. Tell 'em to give it a proper burial

[libodem]

7. So gross and violent

It hits me as pornographic and no one should be exposed to it. I have felt as if the counter imagery is of victims of child abuse. The clearest one I saw was from a medical examiner's text, someone borrowed from the library, of a little dead girl, with a hairbrush embedded in her skull

Whomever, had that child did not deserve one.

[Neoma]

8. It must be particularly hurtful to women who has had miscarriages.

[libodem]

10. Bet so

They should mind their own business. Maybe somebody ought to picket the protesters' churches for mission creep.

[guss]

12. Protester getting off on their own cause

They love the images they displayed to get off the public shock to me is perversity. to show that to us on 13th ave so they can get off on.. and find plesure of showing that. while Kids and anyone who would never want that sight brought to them. is sick!! they should be sued for indecindentcy or jail for exposer. Any Adult Sexual porn in the same area would of shut down. but the dead hacked up babys visuals is Ok. fuckin thanks for scar ing every child for the next 5 to ten years. But thats what they are are about protect the fetus and when they are born good luck heres a backslap. They should show the born after they not part of a cristian pac