Pro-Life Display Trashed at Princeton

Gateway Pundit has the story (link).

The basics:

The 347 flags on the north lawn were meant to represent the lives of students who might have become members of the University's Class of 2010 had abortion not been legalized.

Pro-Life president Tom Haine '08 said the vandalism took place sometime between the hours of 11 p.m. Wednesday and 4 a.m. Thursday.

Caroline Chopko '07 saw the destruction at 4:15 a.m. and immediately sent Haine an email to inform him of the damage.

"I was kind of sad that Princeton students would choose to add in such destruction," Chopko said of the damage. "But I was happy that people are discussing the issue."

When Haine woke up at roughly 7 a.m. Thursday, he saw Chopko's email and went to Frist to see the damage for himself.

The pink and blue flags were pulled out of the ground and there were "strewn coat hangers all around," Haine said.

In addition, the sign in front of the display was trampled and signs were put in place that read "support smaller class sizes: support abortion" and "347 rusty coat hangers were saved from mangling and mutilation."

This is not a rational opposition to a viewpoint. This is a disgusting opposition to the concept of life. I can see that people disagree on the issue of abortion. But when I walk by displays that protest the war in Iraq or the president, they are still there the next day. There may be letters in the newspaper that disagree with the display, but no one trashes it.

But increasingly, this is done to Pro-life displays. The last part:

The pink and blue flags were pulled out of the ground and there were "strewn coat hangers all around," Haine said.

In addition, the sign in front of the display was trampled and signs were put in place that read "support smaller class sizes: support abortion" and "347 rusty coat hangers were saved from mangling and mutilation."

This just leaves me at a loss for words. Just last month a professor actually enlisted her students to destroy a Pro-Life display at Northern Kentucky University (link). In that case there is the possibility of criminal charges.