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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014
Anti-abortion
demonstration
causes
controversey
by AMBER FAIRBANKS
associate arts & culture editor
On
M on d ay
C lackam as
C om m unity College’s pro-life club
“CCC Students For Life” set up a
dem onstration in the lawn in front
of the Bill Brod Community Center.
Signs sticking out o f the lawn read
The “Cemetery of innocents” along
with 330 bright pink flags with the
face o f a baby featured on them ,
each one representing 10 babies
that will be aborted each day.
This display can .be found dis
turbing, but the CCC Students For
Life president Simeon Wakefield
said h e felt this was a necessary
display for students to See. “W hat
made us want to do this today is
that there is 3,300 babies that get
aborted each day” Wakefield said.
“We’re trying to raise awareness
and show respect for the fives that
have been lost like any cemetery
would do.”
Abortion is a very controversial
topic where both sides have very
strong opinions. O ften the discus
sion leads to situations o f sexual
assault. “That’s a really, really hard
question,” Wakefield said. “The way
that I stand is that if someone’s alive,
rea so n to ta k e th a t life fr o m th e m .
W e should, in a m odern society,
be able to come up with, alternative
solutions to taking a fife to make
someone feel better.”
Most students had no idea what
the display was about w hen they
originally walked past it, and the
oiks that did had very differing
opinions on the subject. “I’m really
against abortion, life is fife. Even
i f it was accidental, you knew the
consequences of having unsafe sex.”
CCC student Madeline Szabo said.
Student Nicholas Hadley had a
different opinion. “I th in k people
should keep to their own opinions
and not put it in everybody’s face.”
Though CCC Students For Life
have vocal opposition, there is no
club to represent the pro-choice
student body.
O n May, 13th PCC Sylvania
and PCC Rock Greek had similar
dem onstrations on their campus.
PCC’s paper ‘The Bridge’ reported
that Rock Creek’s Students For Life
had set up a ‘m em orial wall’ which
featured names o f aborted fetuses
etched into the wall. Sylvania’s
display stirred up m ore contro
versy. “Survivors o f the Abortion
Holocaust” (SAH) set up very
graphic pictures o f aborted fetuses
and bloody tissue and were asked
to move due to discomfort.
Despite all students’ rights to
free speech on campus, a dem-
ily spark a lot of controversy. The
discomfort brought on by this club’s
expression o f their right to freedom
o f speech was not for everyone.
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The grass-covered courtyard in front o f the Community Center was covered in 330flags and was referred to as the
“Cemeteryof innocents. ” Each flag represented 10 babies aborted each day.
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