All Life is Worth Saving, Says Group, in Wake of Court Ruling That it Is Constitutional to Require Women to Listen to Their Fetus's Beating Heart Prior to Abortion
For Immediate Release:
January 31, 2012
Contact:
Kristin Richards 202-483-7382
Austin, Texas - After the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled to let stand the Texas law that requires women to submit to a sonogram in order to look at an image of the fetus and hear a heartbeat before getting an abortion, PETA began negotiating to place its own pro-life billboard in Austin. The billboard just went up and will remain on display for four weeks. It shows the graph of a heartbeat monitor flatlining and a picture of a piglet with the caption "A Pork Chop Stops a Beating Heart. Go Vegan." The ad drives home the point that America's meat addiction causes billions of innocent animals' hearts to stop beating every year. Of course, meat consumption is also linked to heart disease in humans.
The billboard is located along Interstate 35, just south of Grand Avenue Parkway, facing south.
In today's industrialized meat and dairy industries, piglets have their tails and testicles cut off without being given painkillers, chickens and turkeys have their throats slit while they're still conscious, and calves are taken away from their mothers within hours of birth, causing trauma for both mother and calf. Fish—who experience fear and pain, just as all other animals do—are cut open on the decks of fishing boats while they're still alive or are suffocated. The majority of animals killed for human consumption are just babies who have yet to see their first birthday.
You can view a photo of the billboard here. A copy of the news release PETA sent on January 12 can be viewed here.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.