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Embryo Images too Graphic for Newspaper

CNSNews - A pro-life group in Illinois said a local newspaper refused to publish advertisements featuring sonogram images because executives at the paper considered the ads to be "too graphic."

When contacted by Cybercast News Service, the advertising manager of the Joliet-based Herald News did not deny using that description, but he said his newspaper reserves the right to reject any ad for any reason.

Jill Stanek, president of the Will County, Ill., chapter of the National Right to Life Committee, told Cybercast News Service that she contacted the advertising department at the Herald News in hopes of buying space to depict a sonogram photo and a box of tissues with text reading, "Excuse me America, this is tissue, this (the unborn child) is not."

According to Stanek, after the newspaper refused the ad, she offered a different ad reading, "She's a child, not a choice," along with a different sonogram photo, but that also was rejected.

A third submission was made with an ad reading, "I am an American," again with a different sonogram photo. Once again, the paper refused to run the ad, Stanek said, for the same reason - that it was "too graphic."

Each ad was created by The National Right to Life Committee and included various statistics and information about abortion and fetal development.

"In exasperation, we asked which ads the newspaper would accept," Stanek said, "and they said they would accept (ads with babies already born). But we determined those ads did not portray the message we wanted to portray. After all, Roe versus Wade is all about the rights of pre-born babies, not post-born babies."

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Note that ProLifeBlogs published the images here.

Posted by tim at February 9, 2006 12:54 PM

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