Word: rape
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...that a new College policy has been established, wherein student groups will be “approved” by my office before being posting. This idea was the result of a recent campaign by the Harvard Right to Life group, who recently initiated a poster campaign depicting a rape survivor who regretted her choice of abortion and which was found to be offensive by some students...
...poster in question is entitled “Women Deserve Better,” and shows “Candice,” a rape victim, expressing regret for having chosen abortion...
...concerned students especially took issue with the opening line, “I was raped,” arguing that it would have a traumatic effect on rape survivors. According to the e-mail sent to HRL, the Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response received several complaints about the posters citing “revictimization,” which incites emotions nearly as intense as those invoked by the original incident...
...which cycles its posters in a weekly rotation, has made news recently after its posters and one of its exhibits were defaced. But the Wednesday meeting focused solely on the HRL poster which mentioned rape...
Women deserve better than to be forced to carry to term what could be the results of rape or incest...