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Scope and Contents

This collection contains two William & Mary Pocket Guides to Free Speech and 56 posters of varying sizes from VOX's (Voices for Planned Parenthood) counter protest to an anti-abortion demonstration held on William & Mary's campus on April 17-18, 2019.

Poster slogans include "Your Choice Matters," "My body, my choice," "We respect bodily autonomy" "Shame and fear have no place here," "Please go away," and "We choose love," among others. Some posters say "The genocide of my people is not your advertisement," and "We support our Jewish students," with Hebrew script because CBR uses images from the Holocaust to equate abortion to genocide for their Genocide Awareness Project. Under the laws of free speech, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), an anti-abortion group, is allowed to demonstrate on public campuses.

VOX Mission Statement from William & Mary's website: "Vox is the Latin word for 'voice.' Through Vox, college students across the country organize events on campus to raise public awareness about reproductive rights, educate young people at concerts about sexual health, work with and support their local Planned Parenthood health centers, and mobilize advocates of reproductive freedom."

General

Info taken from:

http://flathatnews.com/2019/04/23/campus-protests-against-anti-abortion-group/ https://www.wm.edu/as/gsws/currentstudents/studentorgs/index.php