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In recent months, there has been an uptick in vandalism of pro-life displays on college campuses. Students for Life reports<\/a> that in a single week three pro-life college groups affiliated with Students for Life encountered \u201cmajor incidents of vandalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

One incident at the College of New Jersey involved flags memorializing children lost to abortion and informational material. Repeatedly, pro-choice students removed signs, in one instance dumping coffee on them, and eventually all the flags were stolen. Meanwhile, at Southern Methodist University in Texas, pro-life students had approval to display more than one thousand crosses, each representing a child killed and mother hurt by abortion. Pro-choice students posted signs close to the display with their own, pro-abortion messages. Though they did not actively vandalize the pro-life display this time, they did last year<\/a>.\u00a0In South Dakota, students who organized a pro-life week at Augustana University faced continual harassment<\/a> throughout all of their events and displays, both in person and online.<\/p>\n

There seems to be a common theme in these incidents of vandalism. When faced with memorials for preborn children killed in abortion, pro-choice students insist<\/a> that \u201ca woman has a right to her own body\u201d and therefore the pro-life memorial must be censored. Sometimes the wording changes but the pro-choice claim is remarkably consistent. In the case of the College of New Jersey, a pro-choice student vandalized on sign with the message<\/a>, \u201cStop making memorials to guilt trip women.\u201d At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, pro-choice students spray-painted over the \u201cCemetery of the Innocents\u201d sign to say<\/a> \u201cpro-life is anti-woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pro-abortion students vandalize University of Michigan pro-life display<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

These statements are a mischaracterization of the pro-life displays, as the memorials were meant to bring awareness about the reality of abortion, not to antagonize women. Perhaps the reason the memorials are such a threat to pro-choice students, often prompting them to vandalism and even violence<\/a>, is because acknowledging the child killed in abortion shatters the \u201cbodily autonomy\u201d claim that has become central to arguments in favor of abortion. It is possible to make cemeteries and memorials for the preborn because they, too, have bodies. In an abortion, a preborn baby\u2019s body is violently ripped apart<\/a>, ending a human life.<\/p>\n

Memorials to the preborn point out that a woman\u2019s right to her own body does not nullify the rights of another body in the unique circumstance of pregnancy. The memorials are not a condemnation, but, as many pro-life groups have stated many times, they are an invitation to conversation. Sadly, many pro-choice students refuse to engage in conversation and instead want to ignore the First Amendment to make sure that the “right” to abortion is never questioned.<\/p>\n

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In recent months, there has been an uptick in vandalism of pro-life displays on college campuses. Students for Life reports that in a single week three pro-life college groups affiliated with Students for Life encountered \u201cmajor incidents of vandalism.\u201d One incident at the College of New Jersey involved flags memorializing children lost to abortion and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":165025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDisturbing trend: Pro-abortion students vandalizing pro-life displays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Perhaps the memorials are such a threat to pro-choice students is because acknowledging the child killed in abortion shatters the \u201cbodily autonomy\u201d claim.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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