He hopes their jaws drop when they see Genocide Awareness Project photographs showing bloody, aborted fetuses. Private colleges can ban the exhibit, but Cunningham's group has been allowed access to state universities, in part by threatening to sue for infringement of freedom of speech. Cunningham said he cannot gauge nationwide campus sentiment on abortion, but believes many students read his group's literature. A like-minded organization, Missionaries for the Preborn, also has been exhibiting pictures of aborted fetuses on campuses. One anti-abortion activist was sprayed with red paint by a University of Iowa student during a confrontation April 6.
Some campuses are more receptive to anti-abortion messages than others.
Liz Dahl, news editor of the University of Eastern Michigan's student newspaper, said there is an assumed abortion-rights consensus on campus that inhibits students with different views.