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The display quickly caught the attention of students passing by as well as members of CNU’s Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGen) club. PPGen organized an impromptu protest in response.

Sophomore member of PPGen Megan Munford said, “I am very passionate about reproductive justice and advocating for the basic human right to bodily autonomy, so I felt it was necessary to skip my last class and peacefully protest the display.”

Senior Megan Johnson brought signs for protesters to hold that said “I stand with Planned Parenthood,” or “Bans off our Bodies.”

Johnson said, “As the Vice President for PPGen, I wanted to support my club members and their wishes to do something about the matter and not stay silent.”

The display upset a lot of pro-choice students including Morgan Andrews, a junior and member of PPGen. Andrews did not participate in the protest of the display because she said, “I was very

Photo taken by Amanda Eacho, Staff Writer and Photgrapher upset and I did not think it was best for me.”

“I think it is truly insensitive to display flags in a way to represent “lives lost” when these displays have genuinely been used to people that were killed,” Andrews said. “Seeing white students put out flags on our predominantly white university in an area that is majority people of color and in a world where people of color are being disproportionately killed, just goes to show the utter ignorance of ProLife people. Real lives are being lost.”

“Seeing white students put out flags on our predominantly white university in an area that is majority people of color and in a world where people of color are being disproportionately killed, just goes to show the utter ignorance of ProLife people. Real lives are being lost.”

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