The Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) is a visual display composed of 4’×8’ (or 6’×13’) billboards which graphically compare the victims of abortion to victims of other atrocities, such as Jews in the Holocaust.  It is typically exhibited at universities by campus pro-life clubs.  GAP shows students what abortion actually does to unborn children and compels those students to think about abortion in a broader historical context.

Although there are differences between abortion and historical acts of genocide, there are fundamental similarities which warrant a comparison being made.  Widespread killing of human beings is often rationalized on the basis that the victims are subhuman, inferior, and non-persons. 

Today, people recognize injustices, such as the Holocaust, to be objectively wrong.  They acknowledge that it is wrong to deny a human being his personhood status or his human rights because of how he appears or how another feels about him.  In the same way, abortion is objectively wrong. 

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