As post-secondary institutions are "the marketplace of ideas," GAP is a powerful way to compel thought and debate on this controversial topic. The display stimulates dialogue among students and others who ordinarily ignore the abortion debate. The display also ensures that the discussions occur in light of the reality of abortion.

By showing what abortion does, GAP pictures humanize the unborn and dehumanize abortion. Moreover, by comparing the procedure of abortion to other forms of genocide, passersby are challenged to view abortion as a human rights violation with parallels to other atrocities.

Today, people recognize injustices, such as the Holocaust, to be objectively wrong. They acknowledge that it is wrong to deny a human being her personhood status or her human rights because of how she appears or how others feel about her.

In the same way, they need to see that abortion is objectively wrong because it deprives human beings (in this case, unborn humans) of their right to life.

Although there are differences between abortion and historical acts of genocide, there are fundamental similarities which warrant the comparison. One similarity is that past genocides occurred because widespread killing of human beings was rationalized on the basis that the victims were subhuman, inferior, and non-persons. Pictures challenged that thinking about past genocides and they do so now for the debate on abortion.

We encourage pro-life group, especially campus groups, to host a GAP display because it will achieve these goals:

• Stimulate a debate on abortion that has long been silenced


• Change minds towards the pro-life view


• Save babies


• Encourage women and men who have been involved with abortion to seek post-abortion counselling


• Spare women from the physical and emotional damage that abortion inflicts


• Demonstrate the effectiveness of GAP to other pro-lifers


• Recruit and train future pro-life leaders