STanford students for life
planted 440 crosses in White Plaza on January 24, each
representing 100,000 abortions performed in the United
States since the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe
v. Wade. “The point is not to condemn women
who’ve had abortions,” says sophomore Dennis
Adams, who thought up the demonstration and led 20 students
in manufacturing the crosses. “We need to provide
women with financially feasible, emotionally helpful
options.” For much of the afternoon, junior Katherine
Taylor served as an impromptu one-woman counterdemonstration:
“I just grabbed [pro-choice] flyers and ran.”
