FREEPER EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH "ABORTION TRUCK" CREATOR GREG CUNNINGHAM
© 2001 Free Republic

"We are going to have trucks across this nation," the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform's Greg Cunningham told me in a phone interview this morning.

Cunningham, the director of CBR, who is a former assistant U.S. Attorney, Reserve Air Force Colonel and Pennsyslvania legislator, has a vision that he believes will keep growing.

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform has shocked the abortion industry with a fleet of billboard trucks that show the results of an abortion --- it is not just tissue mass, it is a forming baby in the first trimester that is recognizable as a baby.

Cunningham's quest has been five years in the making and the first trucks rolled onto Los Angeles freeways for the first time six weeks ago. They are driven by volunteers and staff.

The director's opposition to abortion was formed during his college years after he came back from Viet Nam. "Much as Martin Luther King's quest for racial justice had its roots in religious beliefs and moved into the secular area as a public policy dynamic," said Cunningham, "our quest has followed the same course."

Cunningham is particularly pleased that an Orange County planned parenthood group has unwittingly advanced the cause. Pro bono attorneys have lined up to give assistance and will be filing an action against the group if they do not issue a letter of retraction for falsely saying that CBR has lied about the ages of the aborted babies depicted on their trucks.

"They stepped into our trap," said Cunningham, "and made a critical mistake. The mistake was welcome and has generated tremendous publicity." Cunningham is not worried should a rogue judge issue a temporary restraing order to stop the trucks. He is confident that the potential problem will be easily overcome. The legal research has been exhaustive and the group feels any such order would easily be overturned at the appellate level.

CBR's fleet of trucks will expand. They have plans to be in the Detroit-Ann Arbor area in September and will be in Florida, New York City and Long Island soon thereafter. Because of security concerns, he could not tell me how many are in the fleet.

Private donor money is growing, the movement is growing and more volunteers are phoning the organization to ask what they can do to help. They come from every walk of society.