Anti-abortionists tour with graphic images
© 2002 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

AA national anti-abortion group is taking its message to the streets of Pittsburgh this week with two trucks bearing signs showing graphic photographs of aborted fetuses.

"We are trying to horrify people, because we believe abortion is a horrifying thing," Mark Harrington, director of the Midwest office of the California-based Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, said Wednesday as he drove one of the trucks on Forbes Avenue, Downtown.

The group arrived in Pittsburgh yesterday as part of a 14-city tour. Harrington and a half-dozen members of his group will drive the trucks around Downtown and on the highways during lunch hours and morning and evening rush hours until Friday.

Harrington said he has seen many shocked looks on the faces of people as he drives by — and has heard words of objection and obscene gestures — but his group has not had any problems in the city.

Mayoral spokesman Craig Kwiecinski said his office had not received any complaints about the graphic billboards.