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Pro-Abortion Vandals Desecrate Princeton Group's Pro-Life Display

by Jim Brown
May 2, 2006

(AgapePress) - - Pro-abortion vandals have destroyed yet another campus pro-life display, this time at an Ivy League university.

The student group Princeton Pro-Life had erected a display featuring 347 flags designed to symbolize the estimated number of students who might have been a part of Princeton's class of 2010 if abortion had not been legalized. After being up just three days, the display was destroyed and signs bearing sarcastic pro-abortion messages were put up in its place.

Thomas Haine, president of Princeton Pro-life, says he finds it very ironic that pro-abortion liberals who claim to be proponents of tolerance and free speech so often display little or no tolerance for pro-life expressions. He feels the messages left by the vandals are truly indicative of liberal abortion advocates' brand of tolerance.

"Someone had added 30 cut-up coat hangers strewn around on the ground," Haine says, recalling the damage to the pro-life exhibit. "Our sign was trampled, and there were two other signs attached to ours: one that said, 'Support smaller class sizes -- support abortion'; and the other one that said, '347 coat hangers saved from mangling and mutilation.'"

The pro-abortion vandals' tableau was "a pretty horrific and obscene display," the Princeton Pro-Life spokesman says. "I can't imagine anyone laughing about a coat hanger abortion or proposing that these are good things, or anything. To poke fun at such a practice, even if you are pro-choice, seems a bit heartless."

The purpose of the Princeton Pro-Life's display with its 347 flags, was to give members of the university community some immediate sense of the number of people they were deprived of knowing because of the "barbaric act" of abortion, Haine explains. He feels the flag display was instigating a lot of positive debate on campus until the vandals struck.

Campus police brought the damaged pro-life display in to dust for fingerprints. However, Haine believes the investigation of this act of vandalism is very low on the police's priority list.