Pro-Choice Author Excuses Violence And Vandalism

Pro-Choice author Joyce Arthur talks about the Center for Bio ethical Reform’s GAP demonstrations, where activists on college campus set up photographs of aborted babies. She discusses the violence that sometimes surrounds these events, when pro-choicers attack the activists or the signs. However, she does not seem to be concerned about the morality of such attacks – rather, she blames the pro-lifers for inciting them. Tacitly, she excuses the pro-choice violence and vandalism.

“… The unstated goal is apparently to anger, offend, and incite violence – then use the ensuing publicity to make pro-choicers look bad.… The GAP display also has been met with pro-choice counter protests at almost every campus where it has appeared. On at least five campuses, violence and vandalism have occurred, with students attacking the displays or GAP staff members and volunteers. At Ohio State University, about 30 protesters rushed the display in an incident that Associated Press termed a “riot”; a female student was arrested after trying to slash a poster with a knife. At the University of Kansas, an African-American student rammed the display with his truck and a female Jewish student physically assaulted a GAP staffer; both were arrested. As Cunningham vowed at one campus, “We will make an example out of lawbreakers.”

“Abortion Is Not a Form of Genocide” Joyce Arthur in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)