Due to the overwhelming popularity of the “Mary’s ultrasound” billboards in La Crosse, Pro-Life Wisconsin has expanded the effort to include two billboards in the city of Milwaukee and one on Highway 41 in Green Bay with the identical image. Billboards in both cities were posted earlier this week. Read the original press release about the La Crosse billboards here.Pro-Life Wisconsin
As we prepare to welcome Baby Jesus into our hearts and our homes, these billboards are a wonderful opportunity to emphasize the humanity of the preborn.
La Crosse was the first location in the United States to display this image in a large-media format, and we are thrilled to bring the joyful message of Christmas to other parts of Wisconsin as well.
Read a Madison Capital Times article about the La Crosse billboards here. Ms. Magazine also linked to the billboards, with a photo. Frances Kissling, former president of the pro-abortion group Catholics for Choice, declared Pro-Life Wisconsin the “grinches that stole Christmas” in an editorial today in the Washington Post. Kissling, writing she “loves the secular parts of Christmas,” clearly needs prayers. Read the editorial here.
We have received commentary and encouragement from pro-life citizens across the United States. Who would have thought that two billboards in La Crosse, Wis. (approximate population 52,000) would raise the ire of national pro-abortion activists?
The billboards feature an ultrasound image of Baby Jesus, with a halo and the words “He’s on His way… Christmas starts with Christ.”
The first Milwaukee billboard is located at the intersection of Capitol Drive and 34th Street, and the second is located at the intersection of Good Hope Road and 60th Street. Click here to view the billboard.
The Green Bay billboard is located on Highway 41, south of Green Bay, facing northbound traffic. To see the billboard on a map, click here.
We would like to especially recognize 40 Days for Life of Green Bay. Due to their invaluable assistance, the Green Bay billboard was made possible.
The image on the billboards placed by Pro-Life Wisconsin is compliments of ChurchAds, a Christian nonprofit in England, dedicated to the idea of keeping Christ in Christmas.
We encourage people to download the image and distribute it at schools, parishes and anywhere else that would benefit from seeing the joyful preborn Baby Jesus.
The image is just fantastic. The good people at ChurchAds deserve a lot of credit for such a creative idea. It's nice to see it expand even more. I hope next year more cities will decide to join in. After all abortion is illegal in Wisconsin. If Roe v Wade would be overturned today, laws on the book which were in force prior to 1973 would take effect, and Planned Parenthood would be sent packing (and really legislators would finally be free to actually help women with crisis pregnancies).
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Great post. A variant of that ad is doing the rounds in the UK
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