A student at DePaul University claimed that the Young Americans for Freedom violated his or her rights by creating a public memorial to aborted babies on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The anonymous student wrote a letter to The DePaulia, the university’s student newspaper, insisting that students have a right to walk across campus without seeing any of the 500 pink and blue flags placed on the quad to memorialize victims of abortion.
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“As I was walking to class and passing through the quad on whatever day this display was up, I saw hundreds of blue and pink flags,” the student wrote in the letter. “Allowing such a display without giving viewers a choice is wrong.”
The student also admitted to vandalizing the display.
“I took three of the flags down from their display and took them home,” the author wrote. “Maybe what I did was wrong, but it created that discussion. And I believe that is right in line with the mission of DePaul and education in general.”
The student denied participating in a later act of vandalism, when at least 13 students wrecked the display and deposited the flags into garbage cans all over campus.
