Pro-Life Movement Driving Home A Shocking And Powerful Message In Honolulu
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The pro-life movement is driving home a powerful message. And the shocking signs might catch you off guard the next time you're on the road.

Downtown Honolulu is a very busy place and an anti-abortion group is hoping to take advantage to that. The group, Center for Bioethical Reform, is putting their graphic message on wheels for all to see. 

Joni Tamaya-Wilson saw the new message on her way to work this morning.

"I'm just surprised they actually have a truck with the pictures and everything,"  says Joni.

Joni was one of many who couldn't help but gaze at the photos of aborted fetuses. They are graphic, they're bloody and they are doing exactly what the group wants them to do: turn heads and get people to think.

"We've been forced to do this because the mainstream media have covered his up and doesn't permit this type of imagery to be put on TV billboards, so we have been forced to put it on our own trucks," says executive director of Center for Bioethical Reform, Mark Harrington.

And they say they're exercising their right to free speech.

"The pictures are legal because the procedure is legal. We're showing what happens everyday in abortion clinics," says Harrington.

But pro-choice advocates in Honolulu don't approve of the images.

"They're misrepresenting abortion, they pretend first trimester abortion, of course they're blown up 80-times their size," says CEO of Planned Parenthood, Barry Raff.

So, should these trucks continue to cruise the streets in Honolulu? It depends who you ask.

"Well, kids are exposed to a lot of things so I'm sure something like this is what they need to see," says Joni.

"I don't know what the citizens are going to think, but what I've heard, people are outraged they've come to Hawaii," says Raff.

The group has only one truck, but has plans on getting more in the near future.