Genocide Awareness Project



Students looking at the Genocide Awarness Project. Photo by Allana Erickson

On March 22, 2010, The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) graced students at the University of Arizona with their ideas on abortion, genocide and President Obama.

The CBR is a non-profit, pro-life organization based out of California. According to their website, their mission is to establish “prenatal justice and the right to life for the unborn.”

The organization spends considerable time and money on a project known as the Genocide Awareness Project and No Abortion.org. These projects bring literature and pictures on why pro-life is the only correct choice.

Now this might seems like a complete fine organization that is trying to bring awareness and a dialogue to people about the continuing discussion of pro-life vs. pro-choice. This isn’t that kind of goal.

The Genocide Awareness Project is a traveling photo mural exhibit. The pictures are a storey high and about as long as a semi truck. On both sides are gruesome pictures of the genocide in Rwanda, the holocaust and mutilated children.  Then theses pictures of genocide are then compare to grotesque picture of unborn fetuses. The pictures show skeletons of fetuses next to dimes and on stainless steel plates.

What makes this project to be utterly insulting is the comparison they make between abortions and genocide, as if they are one in the same.

“We want to make women realize that they are killing humans,” said Warren, a volunteer for CBR. “42 million babies are killed worldwide making this genocide. Because they [fetuses] have DNA, these abortions are killing humans.”

Pictures of President Obama next to gruesome pictures. Photo by Allana Erickson

CBR also took giant pictures of President Obama, words from his speeches and placed them next to these fetus pictures. They seem to make this random connection that the President is responsible for abortions, which makes no real sense.

“Obama has done nothing to stop this from happening,” said Warren. “He is the president and yet he decided to ignore this issue.”

What real pissed me off about the entire display is they never really showed or told what other options were available for women facing this decision. There was no literature available resource for pregnancy help or adoption. CBR pretty much handed out a brochure on why we can link genocide, slavery and abortion together.

They also requested that people visit abortionno.org, a visually disturbing look at pictures of genocide and unborn fetuses.

Look I have nothing wrong if there is a non profit organization dedicated to pro-life. What I have a problem with is fear mongering, drastic comparison and lack of needed information.

If looking at a huge awful mural is enough to change anyone’s mind about the issue, then that person didn’t have an opinion to begin with.