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...lawn in front of Science Center featuring 440 miniature American flags to represent the 4,400 abortions performed each day in the United States. On Tuesday, nameless opponents defaced the display and on Wednesday all of the flags were uprooted. In recent weeks, those who disagree with HRL??s message have also torn-down many posters from its current “Women Deserve Better” campaign in the Houses and the Yard. At Harvard, where free speech is so central to the learning environment, these actions are unjustifiable...
...steadfastly support abortion rights. With much of the campus, we strongly oppose HRL??s message and the way they have chosen to present it. But anti-abortion groups still have the right to hold their beliefs and to introduce them into the Harvard marketplace of ideas. Tearing down posters is not a form of speech; it is a form of censorship. Students who rightfully disagree with HRL should exercise their own freedom to speech, not limit the freedoms of others...
Last year, HRL??s “Natalie” posters—which illustrated the developmental stages of a fetus—were similarly defaced, sparking a school-wide controversy on whether to uphold the categorical protection of the right to free expression...
...some students see HRL??s displays as an abuse of their privileges...
Fervent debates on the philosophical principle of free speech have sprung up on the open e-mail lists of Houses such as Mather and Winthrop, inspired by the issue of the flags as well as HRL??s posters on campus...