Abortion display offensive

I don’t know what these protesters were trying to achieve this week. I don’t know if they understand that no side of the debate wants abortions, but it seemed that way to me after discussing it with one of them.

It boiled down to how this country needs to prevent this from happening. While I argued for better sexual education in middle schools and high schools and better alternatives to abortion (letting gays adopt for one), the man I spoke to preached abstinence-only education.

Clearly this is a problem. I know the pro-life people are trying to spread their cause, but they have to realize that things like this in Tate do nothing but cause divide.

David Huttman

Sophomore, Atlanta

Business

If anyone has been by Tate Plaza over the past couple of days, then you are sure to have seen it. Radical pro-life groups come to college campuses and display their graphic images fairly often, but this year it seems to be a bit different.

This year the argument was that abortion in America is genocide, and further according to members of the group sponsoring the event, that “Planned Parenthood is an attempt to eradicate black people.”

This is probably the most offensive display of freedom of speech that I have observed in my life, not because of my views on abortion, but because their argument was extremely disrespectful.

And my feelings were not alone, as other students voiced their oppositions to the group, pointing out that the group’s definition of genocide (which their argument relied on) was nowhere to be found in the academic or scholarly sources.

Groups like this do no good for anyone; ultimately all they present are shocking images, lies in the form of manipulated facts and an overall lack of logic that angers and hurts many and changes few people’s minds on the sensitive issue that they approach.

Andrew Kirby

Junior, Stockbridge

Drawing and painting