Lauren Daigle, the rambunctious student leader from the UNH Students for Life, was quoted in the Portsmouth Herald as saying “Students for Life tried unsuccessfully for the past four years to engage UNH students in the debate on abortion. Its most successful Students for Life event attracted only 100 students. Yet there are 12,000 students on this campus,” said Daigle. “We finally said, we are sick of the same people coming to the event. We're preaching to the choir.”

During the course of two days, hundreds of students came to the display with their questions … and we were eager to answer them. GAP is the single most effective pro-life project on university campuses for changing hearts and minds. GAP came to UNH and we reached far more than just the choir.

A Facebook (a popular youth website) under the name Operation Respect was set up to protest our display. Several hundred pro- abortion activists logged on to communicate their displeasure at the arrival of GAP. each day 25 to 50 protesters showed up at the display site. Many wore white headbands or T-shirts saying “Keep Your Laws Off My Body and Your Violence Off My Campus.” On the final, day 3 students were arrested for disorderly conduct. The following are some of the comments posted on Facebook from students for UNH:

“So PLEASE prepare yourself for seeing these images on Monday and Tuesday. Avoid the area if you can at all. TELL ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT. Invite them to this Facebook event so that no one is caught completely off guard by this brutal display and exploitative use of the DEAD.” - Steve Henry, UNH student and creator of Facebook protest group

“However, if it was a left wing group juxtaposing photos of those killed in the Holocaust and soldiers killed in Iraq (some jab at the Bush administration), I wonder if people might welcome this such organization with open arms.” - Lisa Litterio, Holy Cross student and Facebook member

"If we can just save one of these babies from being murdered, it's worth it"

- Adam Bungert, a physics major and member of UNH Students for Life.

"They're using the death of all those people to shove their point down our throats. It's horrendous, and it's abuse of life." - Freshman Cass Mercer, 19, of Auburn, NH

“When does it become a human being? When there are 46 chromosomes? So a fertilized chicken egg is a chicken?”- Tiffany Heineman, Senior from New Jersey

Please help us keep GAP on the road. CBR Midwest is still $10,000 short of covering expenses for the 5 campus Spring 2007 tour.

^{Comments Taken From the GAP site at UNH}

“This is super organized and wellfunded.” – Female pro-abortion activist

“Oh my God, I can’t look. I think I might be sick.” – Female UNH student

“So are these like real pictures? It’s so gruesome. I’ve never seen picture like this before.” –Jen, Female UNH student

“I worked in an abortion clinic and these pictures still shock me.” – Female UNH student

“Thank you for what you are doing. I appreciate your courage.” – Female in her 40s or 50s

^{But Do the Pictures Really Work?}

The following is a testimony from a Columbus, OH Pregnancy Center:

This past Monday at the German Village (Columbus) office a client came in for a pregnancy test and options counseling. She stated that she had an abortion previously because her boyfriend pressured her into it and he was pressuring her again. She said that she did not believe in abortion, regretted her last one, and prayed before coming that God would give her a sign.

The client said that three times while on the bus coming to the center she saw the CBR truck with the graphic images, and then again, as she was walking from the bus stop to the center, she saw it again. She felt this was God's answer to her prayer. When she came in she was very serious, appeared to have a sad, distressed countenance. As the client shared her story with us, we were able to help her think through some of the relationship and pregnancy issues which were troubling her, help her to consider options she had not previously thought of, and identify some issues she wanted to address in the relationship. We were able to pray with her with her permission. By the time she was ready to leave, she was smiling and said that she felt so much better. She said that she believed abortion was murder and despite what her boyfriend said, or even if he chose to leave her, that she was going to continue the pregnancy.

When I told Mark Harrington about the client seeing the truck and her saying she felt it was God's answer to her prayer for a sign, Mark stated that because CBR was doing GAP at Capitol University they were not planning to run the truck that day. However, a volunteer called and asked to drive the truck himself that day. When he asked Mark which locations to drive in, Mark told him to pray and let God direct him as to where he should drive. Obviously God answered two peoples prayers that day. He used two very different pro-life ministries to impact her life at the same time, and as a result, a mother and her baby have been spared from abortion.

All praise to our awesome God who sees and cares about our every need and directs our every step.

Susan Dammann, RN and Crisis Pregnancy Center Director

^{Help Save More Lives This Spring}

In May, CBR Midwest will be taking GAP to Ohio State University. On any given day there are around 100,000 students, faculty and others on the campus. We are still in need of funding for this event. CBR Midwest incurs costs that are not part of our regular office budget to do GAP. Please help us reach OSU with the message of life.

• $1000 pays for the literature we will distribute on the OSU campus to students
• $500 pays for the travel arrangements of Pastor Clenard Childress and others from his church in New Jersey
• $250 pays for the fuel necessary to run the Choice trucks during GAP at OSU.
• $100 pays for the fuel of one of the members of the traveling team to come to Columbus

Important: Remember to write “GMO” (stands for Gift Midwest Office) in the memo portion of your check in order for the funds to be deposited in the CBR Midwest fund. All your gifts will go to the Spring GAP campaign

Mark Harrington, Executive Director, CBR Midwest
Host, The Mark Harrington Show