Urjita Mainali, Contributing Writer Recently, there has been a growing number of demonstrations against abortion held by non-student organizations on VCU’s campus. These protestors often bring signs and flyers that provide inaccurate and insensitive information regarding pregnancy and gestation, as well as the medical procedure of abortion.  These groups implement shame tactics based on largely religious or otherwise moral guilt, and inform their assertions with inaccurate claims that generate fear. Most recently, they held a demonstration in front of an academic building in a manner that made it difficult, if not impossible, for some students to avoid without missing out on their paid education.  VCU, as both an academic and medical institution, has a responsibility to protect its young student population from shame and medical misinformation, which has recently been identified as a major public health concern, according to Springer Nature Link.  In allowing these protests to continue, VCU has platformed this misinformation and stigma, endangering the physical and emotional health of students, without assurance that they are well-informed on issues of reproductive health.  Without these considerations, VCU has inadvertently platformed demonstrations that could risk student mental health and lead them to question major personal health decisions in ways that