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April, 2004
Dear Center for Bio Ethical Reform,
For many years, our student pro-life group did not feel comfortable hosting
the genocide awareness project. I now realize that this refusal was not lead by
sound judgement, but instead by fear. We had become comfortable with hosting
speakers, praying at Planned Parenthood, and helping out with the local crisis
pregnancy centers. Our most controversial activity involved a display of 4,000
white crosses which silently stood as a rememberance of the lives that would be
lost to abortion that day. While all of these activities were beneficial and
have their place in our witness for life, none of them exposed the full truth
about abortion as explicitly as GAP did.
The pictures made it impossible to deny that abortion destroys a human life.
We live in a world, though, where even people who are "pro-choice" admit that
this is so. We live in a country where killing can be justified. This is why
GAP is so necessary. It compares abortion to other justified forms of killing,
and once that connection is made, hearts are changed and lives are saved.
This project definitely stirred up some much-needed controversy on campus.
Our apathetic campus had it's conscience stirred, and weeks later, the letters
to our school newspaper regarding the project are still appearing on a daily
basis.
The Genocide Awareness Project not only educated the student body through
the pictures and debate that the team provided, but our student group learned a
lot as well. The volunteers were very helpful, and the training session that
was held the night before the display went up gave us the confidence to talk
with our peers about this life-or-death issue. I would recommend this project
to anyone who wishes to share the truth with a population that is trying
everything in it's power to mask the reality of abortion.
Mary Kathryn Dickmeyer
President, Purdue Students for Life
Purdue University
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