No law against abortion protest photos
No law against abortion protest photos
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No law against abortion protest photos#1
Posted: 5/3/09 at 10:09am
No law against abortion protest photos
Some residents upset by graphic images on trucks, banners.
By SUE LOWE and MARGARET FOSMOE
Tribune Staff Writers
SOUTH BEND ? Lynn Nemeth was driving across town last week with her 3 1/2-year-old granddaughter when a big truck adorned with pictures of aborted fetuses pulled up beside her car.
Nemeth recalled the child's reaction: "Oh, look at the bloody hand."
"It wasn't a bloody hand," said Nemeth, very upset at what her granddaughter had seen.
"It's my issue ? an adult issue," she said. "It's not meant for little kids to see."
Nemeth, who lives in Granger, said several school buses carrying children who could see the trucks were also nearby. She said the parents of those children monitor their televisions so they won't see that kind of thing, but they couldn't protect their children while they were on those school buses.
Nemeth isn't the only local resident upset about the pictures on trucks and on banners towed by airplanes in the sky recently.
The images are part of protests over President Barack Obama's scheduled appearance May 17 at the University of Notre Dame commencement. The truck and airplane banner displays are staged by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, a California-based organization.
The graphic images on trucks and banners will continue until commencement, said Mark Harrington, director of the group's Midwest office. A pro-life radio host who lives in Columbus, Ohio, Harrington and 10 to 15 volunteers are living in South Bend until commencement in order to direct the group's publicity campaign.
The group doesn't intentionally display the graphic abortion photos for children to see, but sometimes that can't be avoided, Harrington said Saturday. The group tries to avoid driving the trucks by elementary schools and day care centers, he said.
"There is no way to completely eliminate children from seeing the banners. We decided long ago that is an unfortunate tradeoff," he said.
The group displays the photos because the mainstream news media are part of a cover-up by refusing to show the results of abortion, Harrington said.
"Social reformers have always used graphic images to dramatize injustice," he said. "We are trying to get people to hate abortion. If they hate us, too, that's a tradeoff we're willing to make."
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090503/News01/905030362/1130
re: No law against abortion protest photos#2
Posted: 5/3/09 at 10:28amI wonder what the reaction would be it it were a picture of a baby reaching for a large naked breast?
no law against abortion protest photos#2
Posted: 5/3/09 at 11:19amthey next plan to scare gay marriage supporters with photos of gaping buttholes and really tiny c***rings.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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no law against abortion protest photos#3
Posted: 5/3/09 at 11:25amThe mammarily enhanced former Miss California, Carrie Precum, will ask viewers, "Do you want YOUR son to say to his hot, hunky male lover, "With this coCkring, I thee wed"?
no law against abortion protest photos#4
Posted: 5/3/09 at 11:31amlike smokey the bear said, "only you can prevent butthole gape."
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
no law against abortion protest photos#5
Posted: 5/3/09 at 11:50am
"they next plan to scare gay marriage supporters with photos of gaping buttholes"
But those images could also be used on gay (male) wedding cards!
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
no law against abortion protest photos#7
Posted: 5/3/09 at 12:04pmCream pies at the reception! Better than wedding cake.
no law against abortion protest photos#8
Posted: 5/3/09 at 12:06pmsantorum for all!
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
no law against abortion protest photos#9
Posted: 5/3/09 at 1:39pm
Last time I heard, there was free speech
If it is protected right & nohing is wrong with it, why is anyone bothered by the photos? Just a mass of protoplasm - nothing more.
no law against abortion protest photos#10
Posted: 5/3/09 at 1:57pm
oh roxy shut the **** up you ignorant, octagenarian twat. you don't know ANYTHING. everytime ANYONE makes a comment against some right wing nutcase you scream "BUT BUT BUT BUT, what about free speech" WE ALL F****** KNOW THERE IS FREE SPEECH YOU RETARDED LEMUR, but there is also such thing as common sense, and common sense would tell us that displaying pictures of aborted babies on the sides of trucks is not a use of a common sense, so shut the **** up or go die already you steam pile of cow semen.
and your argument is completely stupid. People have a right to hunt and slaughter deer. Would you think it would be a good idea for people to post giant pictures of mutilated animals in public just because its a protected right?
what about two men ****ing the **** out each other roxy? If i bought a billboard and put a picture of two, fat, hairy, sweaty men cornholing each other on it, would you be defending it here?
no law against abortion protest photos#11
Posted: 5/3/09 at 5:12pmYes, it would just be a picture of a guy getting it from behind by another guy-nothing more. It would be free speech too!
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