I’ve lost track of how many times we’ve seen this same scenario play out on college campuses. Of course, the opposite version of this story never happens.

Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.

At USC, Student’s Prolife Display Vandalized, Beliefs Criticized

At USC, a prolife student’s display was vandalized, and her women’s studies professor said it’s OK to kill children before they are born

USC Students For Life President Lisa Ebiner Gavit’s prolife display of white hearts and informational posters to mark the Roe v. Wade anniversary was repeatedly vandalized Tuesday, and her antiabortion opinions were also criticized during her women’s studies class that same day.

But in an interview Wednesday with The College Fix, Gavit – a 20-year-old philosophy senior who aims to become an elementary school teacher – said everything that happened had a silver lining, because it opened an important dialogue on campus and possibly touched hearts and minds along the way.

Gavit and her prolife peers early Tuesday had set up their pre-approved display consisting of 275 white hearts around the famous “Tommy Trojan” statue in the center of campus, along with four large posters: one that cited a helpline for post-abortion counseling; another with an image of a 5-month-old baby in utero and the words “choose life”; a third that highlighted the estimated 50 million abortions that have occurred since the legalization of abortion in America in 1973; and a fourth that explained the 275 white hearts represented how many abortions take place in America every two hours.

“The display got a lot of visibility all throughout the day,” Gavit said. “We probably will never know if anybody called that number to find healing after an abortion, or who was touched by it, but it made a lot of people think.”

Gavit said when she checked on the display Tuesday afternoon, she noticed someone had ripped two of the posters in half, but a “Good Samaritan” taped them back up, she’s not sure who.