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Dear Fellow Pro-Lifer,
An influential and effective tool for pro-lifers to use to change public opinion on abortion is the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP). On my campus alone, pro-life students have displayed “GAPs” (smaller versions of the GAP) seven times over the past year and a half. As one of those students, I have witnessed the power in this presentation of the truth.
Since displaying “GAPs” at the University of British Columbia, Canada, there have been many positive outcomes: passers-by have changed their mind about abortion; debate on this issue has been re-established; various mediums of the media have extensively reported our activities; new people have joined our club; our members have become more dedicated and determined; pro-lifers across the country have been energized by this new activism and are keen to bring this project to their campus.
Our displays have not come without opposition, but this is inevitable when facing a culture with a message it does not want to hear. Abortion advocates have hidden abortion under the guise of “choice” and they fear us unveiling it in its shocking and horrific reality. “Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured” (Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail). As our society has become so complacent and apathetic towards abortion, the Genocide Awareness Project is needed to prick peoples’ consciences. In a culture which views killing the unborn as “reproductive freedom” it is imperative that our message be one which spreads the truth and challenges the status quo. The GAP does this.
I commend the staff at the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform for the work they do, and I thank them for all the help they have given us. I highly recommend that pro-life groups display the Genocide Awareness Project in their communities.
For LIFE,
Stephanie Gray
Student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Past President (1999-2001) of The AMS Lifeline Club
http://www.ams.ubc.ca/clubs/lifeline
sgrayccbr@yahoo.ca
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