Fletcher, Jane, & John

^{GAP Puts Gator Chomp on the University of Florida}

	Big crowds passed GAP on both days.  At right, student (dark shirt and holding papers) tells dead-baby jokes.
	Cole Schrimsher (Mike’s son) explains the genocide comparison.

Location, location, location! We had the best possible location on the UF campus, right on the main pedestrian route. But we always pray that God will bring us even more people. Not to fear, God used the Hari-Krishnas for just that purpose! These folks serve a true organic lunch every day for three bucks; and several hundred poor and earthy students line up to partake. Guess were they lined up? Yup, you guessed it: right in front of the GAP display, no more than 10 feet from our aborted baby pictures! These students were literally stuck as they waited impatiently for the line to move forward. But as the line moved ever so slowly, they got the education we had prayed for. Many even took some time to ask questions and make comments.

Logic, absurdity, and brute force. When pro-aborts encounter GAP and debate our staff and volunteers, they have a real problem. The facts and the logic support our side of the debate. When they realize their arguments don’t work, they sometimes resort to absurdity as a way of diverting attention away from the debate. At UF, one student stood near the display and told dead-baby jokes for more than an hour. They were vivid and disgusting; we prayed he would stop. Eventually, he realized he could not win the debate with absurdity, so he resorted to brute force. He and a friend brought tarps and attempted to hide the pictures. When people try to interfere with GAP in this way, the University officials have a choice to make. They can protect our First Amendment rights or they can face a First Amendment lawsuit in Federal Court. Thankfully, most Administrators understand and enforce the First Amendment, but our willingness to defend our rights is a key factor in getting prompt action. In this case, the UF moved quickly to remove the tarp.

Avoiding debate. I’ve heard it all my life: it’s better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Planned Parenthood (PP) has apparently adopted this principle. Sara Hanson, president of VOX, the student affiliate of PP, was quoted in the Independent Florida Alligator, the student newspaper, “We have been instructed by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America to have no engagement with the Genocide Awareness Project, because the nature of the display could lead to heated debate and violence.” Why are they afraid of debate? Is it because they always lose? And who is responsible for violence? Certainly not us!

	Kate Keeley (left), President of the UF Pro-Life Alliance, speaks with protestor whose sign complains that “77% of anti-abortion leaders are men.”  Note that Kate is not a man.

GAP invades the mind. The Independent Florida Alligator ran a news article and several columns and letters about GAP. Here is an extract from their news article:

Latrice Hankerson, a women's studies junior, was shocked when she stepped up to the fence to see the photos.

“These pictures give me nightmares,” she said. “It's obnoxious, it's upsetting, and it's so sickening. It's an invasion of my mind.”

Hankerson is pregnant and is choosing to keep her baby. She believes that women have the right to decide if they want an abortion.

“I don't think it's murder, but it's not something I could emotionally do,” she said. “I couldn't live with myself. I would always wonder who that baby was.”

Ms. Hankerson’s confused thoughts represent many students we encounter. While acknowledging that the pictures trouble her to the point of giving her nightmares, she thinks other women should have the right to abort. She thinks our photos of abortion are “upsetting” and “sickening,” but she hasn’t accepted the fact that the photos are upsetting and sickening only because abortion is absolute evil.

Although abortion photos may be an unwanted “invasion of [her] mind” — the average person does not want to face the horror of abortion — abortion is also a violent invasion of the child’s body.

	Pro-aborts try to hide the GAP signs with tarps.  Beth Waltrip (left, in purple), UF Director of Student Activities, moved quickly to remove the tarp.  She called police officers to the site and threatened the protestors with arrest.
	Pro-aborts attempt to caricaturize our message.  The “1 DOWN” is a reference to the South Dakota ban on abortion.  Protestors frequently try to disparage our Christian faith, as did the man on the right.

Religious leaders are also confused. Campus Rabbi Jonathan Siger was quoted in the Independent Florida Alligator as dismissing our genocide comparisons, “Last time I checked, there is not a great fetus civilization or race of fetuses.” Personally, I can’t think of any civilization, great or otherwise, whose every member was not a fetus at one time in his life. Marshall Kornegay responded in a letter to the editor:

I don’t believe that belonging to a great civilization has an effect on one’s worth. A homeless person is no less worthy of life than a university professor. An unborn child is no less worthy of life than a 4-year-old.

One’s worth and membership in the human family is established at conception. Fetuses are part of a race. Fetuses belong to the human race and represent every ethnic/racial group.

Thank you! We continue to be thankful for the opportunities God has given us to do this work. Students from all over tell us our pictures are making a huge impact on the student body. We thank God for your generosity. To put it bluntly, the more you give, the more work we can do. To borrow a popular phrase, we ask you to give as if this work depends on you—because it does—and pray as if the victory depends on God—because it does.

To arrange your automatic monthly bank draft to support our work:

1. Download and print the Electronic Gift Transfer Authorization:
http://www.abortionno.org/...GiftTransferSE.pdf
2. Fill out the form.  Make sure you designate the gift for "CBR Southeast"
3. Enclose a voided check or deposit slip bearing the account number of the account we should draft.
4. Mail the Transfer Authorization form and a voided check (or deposit slip) to CBR Southeast, P.O. Box 20115, Knoxville, TN 37940.

Please pray that God will raise up others to help you support this life-saving work!