NYPD Protects CBR Expressive Rights in New York City

By Lois Cunningham

On Saturday, May 4 2019, CBR joined Focus on the Family’s Times Square event in New York City. Focus staff members were decidedly unhappy to see our abortion photo signs because they continue to help Planned Parenthood hide the horror of abortion. Two Focus personnel told us they did not want us displaying abortion imagery near their event. Because the NYPD’s excellent officers know the law, they backed us up.

This gathering featured Abby Johnson and the actress who played her in the movie Unplanned. But instead of the film’s simulated abortions, we showed thousands of passersby what abortions really look like. We would be making much faster progress against abortion if major pro-life organizations would stop making their events mere pep rallies. They should show the truth and educate those who attend in effective strategies to stop the killing. If they won’t, we will.

On Monday, May 6, we displayed the face of infanticide advocate Governor Andrew Cuomo beside a photo of a late-term aborted baby girl, at Fordham University in the Bronx. Governor Cuomo is notoriously known for a Capitol Press Room radio interview in which he stated that pro-lifers have no place in New York.  He again raised the ire of many in New York and beyond when he signed the infanticide bill into law on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade this past January 22. A video of this diabolical bill passing in the New York Senate shows brazen cheering and thunderous applause from the abortion/infanticide supporters.  A photo of Cuomo signing the bill into law depicts him surrounded by gleeful faces (think demonic glee). Despite Fordham University being a Jesuit Catholic school, many passersby were very angry at our presence.

Cuomo then celebrated this abominable “Reproductive Health Act” by lighting up the Empire State Building, the Freedom Tower, and the Alfred E. Smith Building in Albany in pink lights.

Our display then moved to New York University in Manhattan on May 7. One angry passerby defaced our “All Black Lives Matter, Born and Unborn” sign with a marker. On Wednesday May 8 we exhibited our anti-infanticide display at Columbia University, again in Manhattan. Columbia regards itself to be America’s preeminent school of journalism and student reaction to our signs helped explain why the news media is so corrupt.

On Thursday May 9 we set up outside the New York Stock Exchange in an effort to reach some of the most influential policy makers in the world. It is safe to say that Wall Street had never seen such graphically disruptive imagery and many passersby seemed stunned.

We ended our New York expedition back near Times Square outside Fox News on Friday May 10.  The New York police sent out their “Counter-Terrorism” officers but they were respectful and in some instances, even helpful. Over all, we were impressed by the professionalism of the NYPD. Gov. Cuomo has declared that there is no place in New York for opponents of abortion, but with your help, we proved him wrong. We aren’t going to allow any public official to advocate infanticide and then tell us we have no right to call him out for promoting such atrocities.