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Students on both sides of the abortion debate demonstrated outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota on Good Friday. Anti-abortion protesters were there to protest abortion, while pro-choice protesters were there to support the women entering the clinic. At the University of New Hampshire, the Genocide Awareness Project—an anti-abortion exhibition pairing images of the Holocaust and other genocides with pictures of aborted fetuses—has incited shock and controversy. Reaction to the exhibition, which was sponsored on campus by members of Students for Life, was so strong that students formed a spontaneous non-recognized student group in response; members of Students for Choice, Third Wave, SAGE, BSU, Hillel, and other campus groups formed Operation Respect, which has no political affiliation, to object to the Genocide Awareness Project’s tactics (many people find them exploitative). The New Hampshire’s editorial on the campus controversy focuses on the First Amendment issue, and is in favor of the discussion the exhibition promotes.

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4/10/07  Read an Editorial from the University of New Hampshire
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