This letter is in response to the recent displays by the "Genocide Awareness Project" on Penn State's University Park campus.
I am not writing to voice my support for or my opposition to abortion rights. Rather, I am writing because I take issue with the method that these individuals have chosen to deliver their message.
I respect and wish to protect individuals' right to speak freely. However, as we should all know, with great freedom comes great responsibility.
From what I saw today, the individuals associated with this project have not come to understand the responsibility associated with protected speech.
If, as they claim, these individuals actually respected life, they would not use images of the Holocaust of WWII, lynching and the recent genocide in Darfur to further their cause.
Images of the victims of ethnically motivated violence should not be used to shock and disgust passersby in an attempt to garner support for one's own ends. They should not be fodder used to fuel one's own political agenda.
The photographs displayed graphically depict the bodies of those who have been killed because of their ethnicity, their religion, their race, their political affiliation.
To equate the individuals in these images to fetuses and the experience of these individuals to abortion is disrespectful and disgusting.
Brooke Di Leone
graduate-psychology
