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Abortion foes cruise city with graphic signs - by MARY KLAUS
Whether he gets a thumbs-up, thumbs-down or other gestures, Kurt Meckes says he makes people think about abortion as he drives through Harrisburg. For three weeks, Meckes is driving a truck displaying 8-by-22-foot images of an aborted fetus... read entire story

Anti-abortion trucks spur protest - by David Blymire
AIt was anti-abortion versus pro-choice during lunch hour Tuesday at the Carlisle Square. A small fleet of delivery trucks brought grisly, mural-sized depictions of aborted fetuses to downtown Carlisle between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. While a plane buzzed overhead with a pro-life message banner in tow, the trucks fanned out across the borough to deliver a message from the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform.... read entire story

Anti-abortion group targets Carlisle - by Fred Burgess and Jennifer Marrs
Anti-abortion "billboard" trucks will bring a controversial election-year message to Carlisle streets Tuesday. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) plans to bring its anti-abortion message to town from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The message consists of 8- by 22-foot images of first trimester aborted fetuses juxtaposed next to the word "choice," says Mark Harrington, executive director of the group's Midwest region... read entire story

Controversial Images Fly On Banners Behind Planes
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Controversial messages about abortion are now appearing on banners flying behind airplanes, and some residents said that this new ad campaign goes too far. "On the plane was this huge banner of an aborted fetus," said Ashli Welch, a mother of two. "Free speech or not, I mean, children shouldn't be exposed to that sort of thing. In my opinion, it's no different from putting a pornographic image on a billboard. It's a different image, but it's still inappropriate for a child to see.".... read entire story

'Mommy, what is that? - by Benjamin Locher
Four large trucks bearing graphic images of aborted fetuses drove around downtown Washington for two hours Tuesday in hopes of drumming up support for pro-life political candidates..... read entire story

Pro-Life Activists Take To The Skies Overhead - by Darcy Pohland
(WCCO) Minneapolis It's controversial, extremely graphic and the pictures are disturbing. For the past few days, a plane has flown around the Twin Cities pulling a banner with a picture allegedly of an aborted fetus. Last weekend, it flew over the Minneapolis Stone Arch Festival and buzzed over the lakes. On Monday, it circled around downtown Minneapolis. The flying billboard campaign is sponsored by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. The message is creating a lot of buzz...... read entire story

Abortion message gets big exposure - by Laura Wilcox
Four trucks carrying anti-abortion billboards will drive through Greensburg for a second day today as part of a campaign targeting Pennsylvania and several other states. The Ohio-based Center for Bio Ethical Reform's Key States Initiative includes a tour by the trucks displaying 8-by-22-foot images, each showing a first-trimester aborted fetus.... read entire story

Anti-abortion group’s images draw looks - by Valerie Nienberg
TPANAMA CITY BEACH - An anti-abortion group made its way through Panama City Beach Tuesday, hoping that giant pictures of aborted fetuses would be worth a thousand words. The images rolled down Front Beach Road on the sides of large box trucks, past businesses and sauntering spring breakers..... read entire story

Abortion opponents arrive with mobile banners - by RACHEL DAVIS
A half-dozen mobile billboards rolled into Jacksonville on Wednesday painted with graphic photos of aborted fetuses as part of a three-day campaign to push abortion as an election-year issue. The trucks with billboard-sized banners will travel throughout Jacksonville today and Friday and will be joined today by an airplane towing a banner that pictures a 10-week-old fetus..... read entire story

Trucks bearing abortion pictures drive through town - by Erin James and Jessica Cambridge
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) returned to State College yesterday with trucks bearing pictures of aborted fetuses, generating reaction from local residents and students. CBR, a nonprofit organization with an anti-abortion message, visited the Penn State campus in October of last year with the Genocide Awareness Project.'... read entire story

Trucks display photos of abortion Group is resuming Cincinnati tour today - by Kevin Eigelbach
The photos shock, just as they're intended to do. They are photos of aborted fetuses, blown up hundreds of times and mounted on the sides of large trucks. One of them shows a bloody, human-shaped figure, held in an adult's hand, its arms no longer than one joint of the adult's finger.... read entire story

Group puts anti-abortion message on display
AThe Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, a California-based anti-abortion group, will be in Toledo today through Saturday and intends to display graphic images of aborted fetuses on the sides of trucks and on displays towed behind planes..... read entire story

Anti-abortion group's trucks roam Racine - by Rob Golub
RACINE - Gene Garrett, 52, of Alabama, has driven a truck with pictures of mangled fetuses on the side through much of America. On Tuesday, a reporter rode with him through Downtown Racine, where he continued to shock, garner support, or offend..... read entire story

Anti-abortion trucks draw ire downtown - by ERIK A. CARLSON
Graphic depictions of aborted fetuses, displayed on the sides of six box trucks, greeted the downtown lunch hour crowd Monday. The trucks, with the photos and the word "CHOICE," were operated by the California-based Center for Bio-Ethical Reform as part of its Key States Initiative. The effort garnered stares and disapproval from people on both sides of the abortion debate... read entire story

Tackling the issues - by Darrell Ehrlick
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is worth at least half as many gestures. On Wednesday afternoon, a caravan of three trucks from the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an anti-abortion group, drove around Winona showcasing pictures of aborted fetuses on the side of vans with the word "choice" next to the graphic images... read entire story

Q and A with Stefanie Gray - by Sarah McKenzie
Trucks displaying graphic images of fetuses circled Downtown streets July 12-13 as part of a "Key States" initiative launched by California nonprofit The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. The campaign targets large cities where abortion is hotly contested and expected to play a role this election year.. read entire story

Politics and prenatal - by Michael de Yoanna
As a truck displaying a gory anti-abortion message cruised Colorado Springs last week, top Memorial Hospital decision-makers quietly drafted a new policy to end no-questions-asked abortions at the city-owned hospital.... read entire story

Truck with pro-life message visits Huron - by ROGER LARSEN
A tight Senate race in South Dakota made it one of 22 states to be targeted with a graphic message by a pro-life organization. For a few hours Friday, one of its box-body trucks displaying billboard-size color photos of aborted human embryos... read entire story