Anti-abortion Activists Scatter Roses in Silent Protest
By Crystal Calloway

Members of the anti-abortion movement say abortion is the Holocaust of today.

Students walking through Polk Place Tuesday saw the green lawn covered with thousands of roses. The campus group Carolina Students for Life organized the project.

The group's president, Mary McPherson, says the roses were meant to be a beautiful and caring way to express opposition to abortion.

“It really is just meant to be a compassionate thing to show we do care about the women, we do want to help them, and we are here for them, which is a message I think that gets lost a lot of times in the arguing,” McPherson said.

Carolina Students for Life is donating any money it raised from selling the roses to three organizations that offer post-abortion counseling.