Campus Police and the Public Information Office fielded several calls and visits by students and faculty when the anti-abortion group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust set up an information booth Friday, April 20, featuring giant posters of aborted fetuses at the entrance of the Child Development Center, across from Hughes Stadium near the campus’ Sutterville entrance.

By 11 a.m., about 20 students had gathered, many to protest that the group was so near the Child Development Center. Two Campus Police patrol cruisers were parked nearby, as the group was moving its display toward Freeport Boulevard.

One opponent, Kathleen Kettering, 36, stood in front of one of the posters to block the view of others.

“A group put up signs like this in front of our church,” Kettering said. “I now block them every opportunity I get.”

Kortney Blythe, director of the group’s Campus Life Tour program, told The Express that when she arrived, her group had set up in the main Quad and then she went to get a permit.

“We were in the main Quad, then we were told there were other activities planned there that we might interfere with, so the police told us to move over by the bookstore,” Blythe said. “We set up right by the bookstore because there was so much foot traffic coming from the parking garage. The police came a little while ago, and asked us to move again because we were so close to the children’s center.”

“We got about a half-a-dozen calls, and three or four people came in,” Ratoyia Hodge, student assistant at the Public Information Office, told The Express.

Brandon Jaye, 24, a Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust demonstrator, said he was not there to push a religious agenda, but instead he is trying to make a scientific point.

“Yes, they’re graphic; yes, they’re horrible, but it is the only way we can get the point across,” Jaye said.