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Ban on the Display of Aborted Fetus Signs (Need help in Wisconsin, please FREEP this poll)
WISCTV3 ^ | January 15, 2002

Posted on 01/15/2002 7:29:08 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus

MONROE, Wis. -- An abortion opponent who publicizes his protests with large scale pictures of aborted fetuses said he's ready to continue his fight against Monroe if the city adopts another sign ordinance.

The Common Council will hold a public hearing tonight on a second try at a sign ordinance.

The first one it adopted was declared unconstitutional after Pastor Ralph Ovadal (pictured last summer at a Mazomanie nude beach protest) and Christ the King Church challenged it.

The previous ordinance restricted the signs to 3 square feet, except for business signs.

Ovadal and his followers had taken their large signs to the city's business square where Planned Parenthood has an office.

City officials agreed to repeal the first ordinance and dismiss citations against Ovadal and his group to settle the federal lawsuit.

Ovadal says the new sign proposal is simply the old one dusted off.

Ovadal and other church members were cited earlier last year for placing literature on parked cars in Monroe that was critical of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and for displaying signs in a grassy area along side Highway 69 in Monroe.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortionlist; prolife
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

ATTENTION.. "ARTISTS" EVERYWHERE..

We Have a new goal.. to put a fetus they destroyed on public display in every public venue imaginable.

Mr. FEDGOV may even pay you for it.. And even if they don't? It's the right thing to do.

Call it "education"

41 posted on 01/15/2002 8:38:40 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: L.N. Smithee

No kidding.. A Fellow Freeperette tried to get me banned over posting a pic in an abortion debate..

They can't handle the truth..

43 posted on 01/15/2002 8:40:12 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: Dog Gone
Thought-provoking though, isn't it.

It's a messy, terrible business, and as horrible as the photos are, I think they do some good by injecting reality into a much bandied-about, but deadly real subject.

44 posted on 01/15/2002 8:43:46 PM PST by PoorMuttly
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
Should Ovadal be able to protest abortion using large pictures of aborted fetuses?
Choice Votes Percent of 438 votes
Yes 188 43%
No 250 57%
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45 posted on 01/15/2002 8:45:33 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Jhoffa_
I guess those people must also be opposed to all that photographic documentation of the WWII concentration camps. Better to just forget and let it happen again then possibly offend anyone.
46 posted on 01/15/2002 8:46:50 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Cultural Jihad
Behold the power of FREEP!!! Thanks, it looks like we're getting there!
47 posted on 01/15/2002 8:48:40 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Brad's Gramma
Done. Thanks. =)
48 posted on 01/15/2002 8:49:11 PM PST by JMJ333
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
Should Ovadal be able to protest abortion using large pictures of aborted fetuses?
Choice Votes Percent of 446 votes
Yes 196 44%
No 250 56%
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49 posted on 01/15/2002 8:51:28 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
TOO LATE
50 posted on 01/15/2002 8:52:39 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
There's now a 51 vote difference....
51 posted on 01/15/2002 8:57:07 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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To: Jhoffa_
Should Ovadal be able to protest abortion using large pictures of aborted fetuses?
Choice Votes Percent of 457 votes
Yes 206 45%
No 251 55%
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52 posted on 01/15/2002 9:01:50 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Brad's Gramma
Should Ovadal be able to protest abortion using large pictures of aborted fetuses?
Choice Votes Percent of 461 votes
Yes 210 46%
No 251 54%
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53 posted on 01/15/2002 9:03:26 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Brad's Gramma;Cultural Jihad
We're closing in!
54 posted on 01/15/2002 9:04:26 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Cultural Jihad
Oh by all means let's vote on it.

Democracy kills millions after all.

L

55 posted on 01/15/2002 9:04:30 PM PST by Lurker
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To: Lurker

Democracy kills? Or sin kills? As a libertarian one would expect you'd just shrug and say "Do your own thang and it's all nobody's bidness."

56 posted on 01/15/2002 9:07:04 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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"Ovadal and other church members were cited earlier last year for placing literature on parked cars in Monroe that was critical of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin"

How Awful!

57 posted on 01/15/2002 9:08:24 PM PST by spunkets
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

Pastor Ralph Ovadal

58 posted on 01/15/2002 9:10:56 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: spunkets
Should Ovadal be able to protest abortion using large pictures of aborted fetuses?
Choice Votes Percent of 479 votes
Yes 228 48%
No 251 52%
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59 posted on 01/15/2002 9:12:06 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Keep spreading the word....
60 posted on 01/15/2002 9:16:39 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma
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