On Tuesday, Turlington Plaza will once again become a center for controversy.
Created Equal, a group dedicated to starting conversations about abortion through the use of graphic pictures, will be displaying its exhibit from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The organization has brought the exhibit to campus in previous years. For some students, it is notorious for inducing tears or vomit.
The collection includes pictures of dismembered fetuses.
Madison Bellaire, a 19-year-old UF physics and mathematics sophomore, said she will avoid the area.
“I have issues with anti-abortion campaigns where the main goal is to cause disgust and guilt in others,” she said. “They make it harder on women who are trying to make an important, difficult decision.”
However, Mark Harrington, the executive director of Created Equal, said he believes in the medium for making a point.
He called abortion a contemporary form of ageism, discrimination based on age.
“The biggest arguments will be that the preborn aren’t ... self-aware, therefore they’re not persons. That’s simply because they’re younger,” he said. “We’re a country that values equality between race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, but we’re discriminating against a group of people based on age.”
A version of this story ran on page 4 on 10/14/2013 under the headline "Turlington to host abortion exhibit"
