A pro-life group in the U.S. state of Wyoming is remaining defiant after its billboard advertisement was targeted by abortion advocates who scrawled obscenities across it in spray paint. Pictures reveal how the billboard, that featured the text “Save the Babies” beneath an image of a newborn infant, was vandalised with “vile” abuse directed at babies.

The ad was one of several pro-life signs commissioned over the past few years by Park County Right to Life.

Local Sheriff Scott Steward branded the perpetrators as “idiots”, while Leslie Maslak, past president of the pro-life group, described the incident as “shocking”.

“You don’t expect it, because it’s a nice sign; it’s not offensive. I don’t know; I just don’t get it,” said Maslak.

Damage to the ad has been estimated to cost between $300 and $400, however, Park County Right to Life has announced that it plans to purchase another sign.

Last week, SPUC reported that a pro-life billboard in Texas had been taken down after the owner received death threats.

SPUC comment

A SPUC spokesperson said: “When we consider that the pro-abortion lobby believes that there is nothing wrong with killing children, the criminal damage done by scrawling obscenities across a pro-life billboard should not surprise us. However, this fits the growing pattern of aggression within the anti-life lobby which is disturbing.

“Efforts to communicate the pro-life message are increasingly hampered as pro-abortion advocates turn to vandalism and even death threats to silence pro-lifers. People who do this kind of thing appear to be motivated by hatred and a sheer lack of humanity but we should not be intimidated.

“We can see what pro-lifers are up against in the United States but they are not deterred and neither should we be when we face this kind of attack.”

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