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	5/14/2004

Warning Graphic images ahead...

That was the message on a body length sign being held up by a t-shirted man on Battleground Ave as I came up from Wendover this evening around 5:30pm. Then I saw the box van (click at your own risk) wrapped in detailed photographs of dismembered infants from late term abortions. The warning being far too late, there was really no choice for any motorists to avoid the images of gruesome vivisections as more than twenty people (including some children) had all four corners of the main intersection closest to Greensboro's "family planning" clinic lined with five foot tall placards with reproductions of the same pictures on the truck.

As I swung around to get a flyer from one of the protesters flagging down cars, I noticed a woman who had pulled into a parking lot off Green Valley road. She was making a similar point on lack of choice for participation in this event. She argued with one of the men propping up a placard that she had had an abortion and was fine with her decision, but that was not why she wanted to see him put down his sign. Rather, "what about giving consideration to the young mothers driving by in their mini-vans full of impressionable children who unquestionably would be disturbed to see such graphic images." The man was arguing that the public needs to see what is going on in abortion clinics.

The flyer I was handed titled, The American Holocaust Photo Display was published by Missionaries to the Preborn out of Milwaukee, WI. I did not stick around to get more information, opting instead to get home in time for dinner with my family.

(The whole scene was surreal and was certainly causing a commotion for those on the drive home. I thought I would find out more in Saturday's N&R, but it does not look like it made the local news yet. Maybe once some of their friends in the area get to them, we can get the skinny from Ed Cone and David Hoggard who were at the approximate time of the protest watching other pictures and eating fudge-sicles respectively. What I do know from checking out the group's website is that it is certainly probable that they had no local support as their tour was simply on its way from protests earlier in the day in Raleigh and Durham and on its way to a protest in Charlotte on Saturday.)

7:55:23 PM

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