Posted on 05/30/2002 3:22:41 PM PDT by laureldrive
Abortion foes plan aerial towing of graphic banners over Cape beaches
HYANNIS - Most summers, Cape beach-goers look up when they hear a drone in the sky and spot a banner advertising suntan lotion or a soft drink towed behind a small airplane.
This summer, they may see the image of a an aborted fetus, thanks to the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, based in California, with offices in Ohio and Tennessee. Starting Saturday, the abortion foes are paying for the towing of photo billboards with images of what the group says are abortion-related images over beaches in the Boston and Cape Cod area.
The billboards will measure 30 feet tall and 100 feet long. The project will also cover beaches in other regions of the country between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Previously the same group drew attention by driving a fleet of panel trucks that bore similar mobile billboards along highways last year in California, Florida and Michigan.
"This an expanding campaign of related projects are designed to make abortion impossible to ignore or trivialize," spokesman Greg Cunningham said in a press release that was distributed yesterday.
The images, he said, will make it far more difficult for America to pretend that an unborn baby is a "blob" of tissue" or that abortion is the lesser of two evils.
Parental discretion is advised, he said, a view born out by a visit to the center's Web site where parts of what appeared to be the broken, bloody arms, legs and head of a fetus or an entire body.
"...Children see disturbing pictures every time they are pushed in shopping cars through the checkout stands at supermarkets, past color photos of airlines exploding into skyscrapers, etc. on the covers of news magazines, " he stated. "If it is appropriate for news organizations to publish and broadcast shocking images, we claim that same First Amendment right. Our pictures save unborn children and upset born children. Critics who care more about the feelings of born children than the lives of unborn children aren't pro-life, they are pro-feelings. "
According to its Web site, (www.abortionno.org) newspapers and television refused to show the signs. Other abortion foes viewed the campaign as extremists for alienating even anti-abortion supporters.
- By Susan Milton
The same liberals don't care about the feelings of families who like to go to the beach and not have to subject their children to nude and topless sunbathers.
At first, it seemed to me that it was pretty far out. But in point of fact it just proves that pictures don't lie as easily as words. The abortionists really, really hate these pictures, because they show what they and the news media have tried to cover up with doublespeak, lies, and suppression of the truth.
ORW is just gearing up to purchase a second truck. Interested Freepers might visit their web site: http://operationrescue.org/.
What facinates me is the way people call the truth (pictures of aborted babies) extreme while maintaining an opposite opinion to what is truly being pictured.
you can't have it both ways.
If you would find a picture of a slaughterhouse offensive outside a fast food restaurant, you must ask yourself if maybe you have been too isolated from the actual killing of the meat you eat (if in fact you eat meat). If abortion is such a good thing, then what is so offensive about a picture of the same?
Thanks for pointing out your interview.
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