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Unthinkable. Impossible. Insulting.

No, we're not ranting and raving about the Genocide Awareness Project ....

We're in disbelief over the possibility Ohio State's football team could go undefeated, convincingly destroy all opponents, go wire-to-wire as No.1 in both major polls, and still miss out on the Jan. 4 national championship game.

It is a measure of CBR's impact on the university that even the editors of its football-obsessed student newspaper couldn't discuss their sacred season without mentioning GAP. This was only one example of abortion's dominance of news and commentary during the week of CBR's visit.

OUR PURPOSE AT OSU
Our objective in erecting this out-door anthropological exhibit was to encourage comparison of abortion photos with photos of more widely recognized forms of genocide and thereby dramatize the parallels. Abortion is not only the greatest injustice of our time, it is the least understood and most ignored. We want people to see abortion from the baby's perspective - not just the mother's. We want to force a serious debate on this mass murder which many will commit but few will discuss.

Our target audience is students who demand "choice" but refuse to acknowledge what's being "chosen." Intellectual dishonesty has made abortion a topical taboo. "Reproductive freedom" has become an "article of faith." To question is heresy which invites instant anathematization as an "anti-choice extremist." Peer pressure has rendered "pregnancy termination" a settled issue.

But truth be known, the issue isn't nearly as "settled" as "The Pagan Left" would have "The Religious Right" believe. And we were about to prove it in a most "unsettling" way; by forcibly unmasking this "choice," whose name America dares not whisper.

In fact, by the end of the week, nearly everyone at Ohio State would be talking about abortion - whether they wanted to or not. And lives would be saved because the discussion, though compelled, was occurring on our terms - no more pretending the baby isn't really a baby, no more denial that abortion is an act of violence. Here is an excerpt from a student E-mail that describes GAP's power to stop the fraud:

At the time when the GAP was on the Ohio State University campus (Columbus) this ... [student] was not physically showing any signs of pregnancy even though she was pregnant .... She had made up her mind to have an abortion the same week that GAP was visiting the campus. When the project was on the Oval, she had decided not to go near the display because she knew what it was about and she didn't want anything to distract her from going through with the abortion. She figured that if she stayed away from the display then it wouldn't affect her. Little did she know that the display would be moved all around campus. One day when she was leaving her job, what does she see RIGHT SMACK IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING SHE WORKS IN .... It was none other than the GAP display. She decided to take a look at the pictures and talk with the volunteers. That day she decided not to have an abortion. Thank the Lord.

Saving this baby and the many others about whom we will never hear, required perseverance in the face of enormous hostility. The following vignettes illustrate just how hostile Ohio State's culture has become where abortion truth is concerned.

CULTURAL HOSTILITY
The campus newspaper (The Lantern) routinely publishes prominent ads for the Northwest Women's Center, advertising "Early Term Abortions" which promise to be "Caring" and "Confidential." The proprietors assert that "We Believe The Choice Is Yours." The tragedy of genocide is that everyone gets a "choice" but the victim. But as if to fulfill Biblical prophesy (Isaiah 5:20), while this ad was calling "evil" "good," another section of the paper was calling "good" "evil."

Lantern columnist Robert Nekervis penned the following drivel on Friday, October 23, 1998:

Millions have bought the myth that ... [Mother Teresa] was a benevolent humanitarian. In reality, the neurotic little woman from Yugoslavia ... was a hideous monster. She was an unprincipled thief who contributed to the world's suffering in the name of her delusional mysticism. In short, she was a disgusting human and the world is a better place with her absence.

What, according to Mr. Nekervis, were some of Mother Teresa's more "monstrous" offenses? Well, he says she eased the suffering of poor sick people by accepting financial contributions from savings and loan magnate Charles Keating, a man who was convicted of financial misconduct. But when storied evangelist Dwight L. Moody was criticized for accepting contributions from mobster Al Capone, he defended his decision by saying "I just decided that Satan had had that money long enough!"

Mr. Nekervis is also scandalized that Mother Teresa opposed artificial birth control and encouraged the sick to look for meaning in their suffering. How about those for "crimes against humanity?" Mr. Nekervis doesn't seem to realize that our marvelous Mother Teresa didn't invent Catholicism, she merely lived it.

But it gets even weirder. A far-left Ohio State fringe group which misleadingly styles itself The Feminist Majority (whose tiny group protested our presence) recently won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's "Campus Outrage Award" for "extreme acts of political correctness and outrageous attempts at thought control." When a political cartoonist for the student newspaper satirized the women's studies program, members of this feminist organization protested by attempting to burn their bras on the porch outside his door. But unlike the foundation garments torched by feminists of yore, modern Maidenforms are manufactured from flame retardant fabric. The term "bra-scorching feminists" may lack the punch of their mother's more fearsome "bra-burning" nom de guerre but The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 19-25, 1999, reported that one of the cartoonist's supporters did get punched in the face "after a confrontation with the Feminist Majority's president ...."

In addition to 15,000 copies of the offending edition of the newspaper being stolen and presumably destroyed by unknown enemies of both the brassiere and The First Amendment, the student cartoonist was (surprise!) fired.

UNIVERSITY OPPOSITION
In their defense, these impressionable ladies were merely following the example of Ohio State's administration. During our pre-visit negotiations with university administrators, the school's Office of General Counsel made the peculiar legal argument that CBR could not express its point of view on this public campus without first being invited to do so by the university community. Steven J. McDonald, Associate Legal Counsel for Ohio State said in a letter to CBR, dated October 12, 1998: "To the extent that our campus is a 'forum' at all, it is a forum only for that which we and the members of our community wish to say, hear, and study, not for that which others may believe we should hear."

"Others?" Attorney McDonald obviously thinks Ohio State is his private club instead of everyone's public university. But we obviated the necessity of proving him wrong in court when we secured the "invitation" of five student organizations (End Time Ministries, The Navigators, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, New Life Christian Students and The College Republican Club). These invitations were secured and our visit coordinated by the tremendously effective work of Mark Harrington, the director of our Mid-west offices in Columbus, Ohio.