Genocide Awareness Project group to hold anti-abortion display on campus next week
February 5, 2020
Every year an anti-abortion group by the name of “Created Equal” gathers around campus to display graphic images of unborn, aborted fetuses and to talk about abortion. This year a returning group is coming to campus.
According to an Osprey Update email, Genocide Awareness Project will be visiting campus and displaying graphic images outside of the Student Union from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11.
The university advises those who want to avoid the demonstration to take alternative routes.
“The freedoms of speech and assembly are basic and essential rights that the university strives to protect,” said the university in the update.
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GT • Feb 12, 2020 at 2:45 pm
‘They have the right to not allow these images to be displayed. ‘
Actually, they don’t have the power to stifle free speech as a public institution.
“A pictures worth a thousand words.’
Once again,
Facts > Feelings.
GT • Feb 12, 2020 at 2:37 pm
he cared more about these protestors displaying these massive graphic signs than the emotional and mental health of his student body?’
‘this is a hostile environment ‘
One question should be asked, are these accurate enlarged photos of real life aborted fetuses? If so, then they are facts of life in this country.
As legal adults, 18 and older, UNF’s students should expected to understand the real world and how it’s not going to be sanitized in front of their path in all directions.
The UNF President gave advance notice and there were clear signs, so anyone who chose to avoid the enlarged photos of real aborted fetuses could.
In other places around this world, there are more graphic things going on….
Facts > Feelings
In a nation where there are more violent rated R movies, I think these two earlier commenters are underestimating the emotional state of UNF’s students. The Hunt is going to be released in the coming months… It’s fictional story of hunting people… How many will protest that film?
Patricia Darley • Feb 11, 2020 at 4:45 pm
One of my borrowed kids told me about this display. I was horrified. UNF has a lot of students beyond the 18 to 25 age range, many of whom are parents themselves. Given the statistic that 1 in 4 pregnancies culminating in a loss, and 2% of pregnancies resulting in still birth, this is a hostile environment for the students who have endured a loss that they very much wanted. In one group’s quest to stem the number of abortions, they and the school are causing harm to grieving parents. The message can. E sent without doing harm, and respecting the dignity of both grieving parents AND the lives lost to various forms of fetal demise – both spontaneous and induced. If this group claims to respect life, that means they should also be respectful of the dignity of all lives. This kind of display should never happen. You cannot be pro-life and fail to respect the lives of parents whose children have died through no action of their own.
Kathryn Humphreys • Feb 6, 2020 at 8:47 am
I’m curious about when the UNF president decided he cared more about these protestors displaying these massive graphic signs than the emotional and mental health of his student body? Has he acknowledged that these images are traumatic to some of the students on campus who have had miscarriages and abortions? When he decided to allow them to display these images instead of simply holding signs with words on them, did he understand that exposing people to trauma can increase the rate of suicide and self-harm in a population?
Does our Dean of Students and President of UNF, and all others involved in making decisions for our campus recognize that the “freedom of speech” does not mean the “freedom to be an inconsiderate asshole”? I’m wondering where in our constitution the freedom of speech includes anti-choice protestors holding massive, graphic images. Of course, I could have missed it. I am, of course, a lowly woman who can’t even make decisions about her own body.
They have the right to not allow these images to be displayed. They could take a stand for their student body. They won’t, though. Hopefully we will see more than a few counter protesters. Maybe I’ll hold a sign with a picture of Gerri Santoro’s bleeding body, who died after attempting her own abortion in 1963 and being left to hemorrhage and die alone in a hotel by the person who got her pregnant. Or is that too graphic?