Genocide Awareness Project

The Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) is a movable anti-abortion display being temporarily installed on multiple university campuses in the United States and Canada since 1997. The display includes pictures they argue are of aborted fetuses or represent what an aborted fetus would look like, juxtaposed next to pictures of victims of genocide. The display is produced and managed by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, a privately funded United States organization.

In 1999 the display has been on at least seventeen campuses. Gregg Cunningham, the executive director of the Los Angeles-based-center said that most people have never seen abortion photographs, and in 1998 at the University of Tennessee, eight pregnant students who were planning on getting abortions changed their minds after seeing the display.

In 2001, the display was mounted on trucks to roam the San Francisco Bay Area streets and freeways. This approach was also used earlier in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Los Angeles area.

The organizers maintain that the display stimulates dialogue among students and others who ordinarily would ignore the abortion issue.

In March 2007, anti-abortion students from the University of Calgary successfully organized their third GAP display. Pro-choicers protested at each of their displays, including bringing manure as a sign of what they thought of the campaign.

At the same time, in some places the controversy around the project was quite high and some campuses banned the display. On March 16, 2004, The National Post ran the headline, “Pro-life signs rejected as inflammatory,” describing how the University of Alberta turned down the request to put this display in a high-traffic area of the campus, alternatively offering a space in a room. The posters were described as discriminatory and inciting contempt towards women. Other protesters say that to compare these women to Nazis and terrorists is hateful and offensive, and that the use of the word genocide in relation to abortion is contestable because abortion does not discriminate on national, ethnic, racial or religious grounds.

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