PROTEST PROJECT

Protest Project - Gendercide

Time - November 25 2014

Group Member - Meiyu Yin / Zitang Wu / Issy Cheung / Mabel Dilliway

There are a lot of issues which are very important and interesting, such as political issues、economic topics and cultural issues. Compared with other issues, our group, however, are more interested in the topic of abortion，because we think perhaps no issues are more controversial than abortion, which involve taking the life of a human being. In addition one of our teammate’s mother is a doctor who can provide us many information and recommendations for this issue. Therefore, our group decided on investigating induced abortion. Through a broad literature review and survey we fond that different people hold different attitudes toward abortion. Some people think people have the right to decide whether to keep a child. However, there are also many people are anti-abortion. Abortion opponents, who regard embryos as nascent human life, think induced abortion is immoral and some of them even think it is anti-human. Our group is against induced abortion. We think that abortion not only does harms to women’s health but also seems unfair to take a life of a baby.

From some reports and news, we find that now more and more pregnancies women abortion in the world and the problem of abortion is becoming increasingly severe in Asia，especially in Indian and China, compared to Europe. Some research pointed out that the cultural preference for boys in Indian deeply rooted in many people's mind, which led to the millions of baby girls and female fetuses killed by parents who prefer boys. I read a news last week that there are already 100 million girls "missing" due to sex-selective abortion and female infanticide, and more than 12 million girls are “missing” in the past 30 years in Indian, according to the English medical journal The Lancet. The Indian 2011 census showed that there were about seven million more boys than girls aged under seven in the country. There are more than six million women have an abortion every year in Indian. The situation of abortion has brought a big problem on the nation's growing gender ratio imbalance and the development of society. Based on the information, our group thought the issue of induced abortion should be concern. Therefore we want to design a work to make people raise concerns about female’s health and that innocent fetuses should have the right to live. We often read some news that parents abandoned babies in the vicinity of the central park or some public area. Therefore, after our group discussion about how to design our project, we had an idea that we put a sound in a garbage can and played infant crying. Passing pedestrians who were hearing this crying would be curious for this sound, and then they might pause and opened the garbage can in a street. We have put an information that tell people to“protect human health and treasure human life  cherish life and  into the garbage in advance. Therefore, once people opened it, they would see this information.  We made a video to record the process of people’s activity.

During this group work, I found that the most important thing is effective commutation and a good project not only aim to attract people’s attrition but also should take into consideration of people’s acceptability. Our teammates have totally different background and each of us has different picture of a same issue. We spent a long time to discuss the topic of abortion and to design our work. Through this group work, I have learnt to cooperate with one another. I think that it is natural for people to have different opinions, feelings, or approaches to things and actively communication can help us to people find a balance for our work. These different opinions do make us have a broad understanding of what we want to do. In addition, our project designed to play baby crying in the garbage and this baby crying scared some passerby and some nervous people was visibly angry after opening the garbage and finding that it was not true and it was just a project. I am regretful that we did not take plenty of possible factors into account to our manner. Next time, I will take into consideration of people’s acceptability of our design and image the worst-case.