
{"id":3707,"date":"2008-10-23T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2008-10-23T07:55:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:55:26","slug":"news-brief-abortion-protest-raises-hackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/23\/news-brief-abortion-protest-raises-hackles\/","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Abortion protest raises hackles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three 18-foot tall billboards with jarring images of aborted fetuses towered over passers-by in Polk Place on the UNC campus Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a violation of personal freedoms,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d junior John McElwee, of Charlotte, said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m coerced to look at dead fetuses on my way to class; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the equivalent of someone outside my front door with a loudspeaker.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSigns warned those approaching the sight to do so with caution, informational booths were strategically placed around the show and paper boards invited students to express their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is an emotional assault,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d senior Abi Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit was installed by Carolina Students for Life, a student organization against abortion, and Justice for All, a similar organization from Wichita, Kan. Carolina Students for Life used $5,000 it received from student congress at the start of the academic year to fund the display. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Catherine Rierson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three 18-foot tall billboards with jarring images of aborted fetuses towered over passers-by in Polk Place on the UNC campus Wednesday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a violation of personal freedoms,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d junior John McElwee, of Charlotte, said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m coerced to look at dead fetuses on my way to class; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the equivalent of someone outside my front door with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}