Pioneer Press has a nice writeup on
Prolife Across America:
If you've ever driven Interstate 35 between the Twin Cities and Duluth in the last 20 years, you've almost certainly seen a message from Mary Ann Kuharski.
Right alongside the highway, you'll find a billboard with the jumbo-sized image of a cute baby's face and a simple line of text: "Heartbeat 18 days from conception," or "Fingerprints at 9 weeks" or "I could dream before I was born!"
It's not just on the way to Duluth that you can see the baby billboards.
Baby faces laughing, smiling, sleeping or wearing funny hats have loomed over roadways in Neptune, N.J.; Wenatchee, Wash.; and Sugarland, Texas, telling motorists to "cherish life born & unborn" and that "a new human life begins at conception."
Last year, there were 6,500 of the signs erected in 42 states.
They're all thanks to an organization started by Kuharski in 1989 in her living room in St. Anthony, Minn., with her husband, another couple from her church and a handful of fellow volunteers.
The group became Prolife Across America -- "The Billboard People" -- an organization dedicated to "changing hearts and saving babies' lives."
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1 comment:
Laudable efforts. Still, I suspect that the images of smiling babies does more to warm the hearts of the already pro-life crowd than to convert or even engage pro-aborts.
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