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The Genocide Awareness Project was on campus at Ohio State University from October 19 to 24, 1998.
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Every hour, large crowds of students were drawn to GAP signs on The Oval at Ohio State during class changes. Exciting debate always followed but seldom with pro-abortion protesters, many of whom seemed reluctant to talk. Mark Harrington, director of CBR Ohio, talks with students outside the GAP display at OSU. The ultimate, if unwitting, expression of misogynist sentiment by a student dressed as the "Joker." As the week passed, this young man gradually abandoned the "theatre of the absurd" and against all odds, joined us in constructive discourse. OSU students listen to one of several arguments between Gregg Cunningham and a very bright lesbian pro-abort. She later conceded that the week had been "a nightmare" and our discussions "deeply disturbing." We were encouraged by both admissions.
This pro-abort protester told press she was "expressing her rage" with attack on panels. Police officer expressed his disapproval with hammer-lock on protester. Criminal charges will be filed against her (a student at the University of Kansas is now on probation from a six-month jail term to which he was sentenced for attacking our exhibit with a car). Another pro-abort protester scuffles with police after being caught attempting to slash display panel with a knife. She probably also claims to deplore violence against abortion clinics. Police take knife from pro-abort. Criminal charges will also be filed with unfortunate consequences for this young woman’s employment and or grad school admissions prospects. A fierce exchange between Gregg Cunningham (third from right) and an apparent pro-abort faculty member draws a crowd. Scott Klusendorf (fourth from right) makes cameo appearance and offers important insights to hundreds of students during his day on the line.
Pro-abort protesters revert to vain attempts at cover-up of CBR display panels but are now held back by steel barricades and heavier police presence (violence could almost certainly have been averted if CBR had gotten both when we requested them at the beginning of the week). Many protesters weren’t even OSU students. Large numbers drove to campus from nearby Antioch, a small and very liberal, liberal arts school. As forums proliferate later in the week, the "Joker," now in different dress and frame of mind, listens intently with David Lee, CBR Director of Operations (first and second from right). While deploring the convergence of theology and gynecology, this young woman seems understandably camera-shy. After several minutes of tough but thoughtful questioning, two journalism students said they hated to admit it but we were changing their minds about abortion.
Instead of thoughtful questioning, "Satanists For Life" respond with signs imploring "Don’t Abort! Your Fetus May Be The Anti-Christ." Rev. Clenard Childress, on right, talking to student, reported watching from a distance as another young man, standing alone, took a dime out of his pocket and held it up in front of a CBR display panel which depicted a dime beneath the severed arm of a ten-week fetus. He then walked quietly away. Pro-abort protester offers bizarre dietary counsel. The ever-present threat of violence against pro-lifers is apparent in the angry rhetoric of this pro-abort sign.

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