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...world of the child from that of the adult. But children can absorb images - from TV, say - just as easily as their elders. Postman worried that a postliterate culture would be one in which barriers that protected children from the perils and temptations of the outside world would be torn down...
...most of the houses, about half of the posters are torn down within a day,” said HRL President Daniel R. Tapia...
Last year, HRL’s “Natalie” posters, which showed the progressive stages of development of a fetus, were also torn down, prompting a campus controversy over the limits of free speech...
...more posters are torn down, the quicker they are being put back up,” Tapia said...
...They insist that the emotional effects of abortion are fabricated, offering no support to women who regret their choice. When Harvard Right to Life (HRL) ran a poster series last year with images of the developing fetus to educate students about human development, the posters were vandalized and torn down so frequently that even many students who disagreed with HRL but valued the right to free speech objected...