Election Sign Too Much for Some in Kansas

A graphic abortion display in a small Kansas town has caused an emotional stir and now the homeowner has put up even more pictures.

People in Herington are reacting to the unveiling of a huge poster being hung on a house on Main Street.

It's part of a controversial display against pro-choice political candidates.

"To have that! It's a half of a head held up by forceps. It is disgusting. And I think, 'what would my children think if they saw that?'" said Katharina Mascareno of Herington.

"The need for the graphic sign just teaches people. It is just like the saying, 'A picture's worth a thousand words' so that's what we're doing. Peacefully teaching," said abortion protester Bonnie Kraemer.

This week Bonnie Kraemer has been displaying anti-abortion signs at a house at Second and Main Street in Herington during the day for everyone rolling through the center of town to see.

What's upsetting her neighbors are two pictures we can't show you because they're too graphic for television - they show body parts of an allegedly aborted fetus.

"Now there's nothing illegal at all about the display."

The only law Herington has about political signs is that if they are in the front yard they have to be less than 16 square feet. If they are posted to a house they can be as big as anybody wants them to be.

People in town say they don't have a problem with Kraemer's political views.

They say the pictures are just too graphic.

Tracy Parks' parents run a daycare across the street.

She says most the parents stopped bringing their kids there since the graphic posters went up.

"The kids are having nightmares from it. They say we can't afford to bring our kids here to have them traumatized by that," said Parks.

"The more fuss, the more attention they're bringing to it, the more coverage we're getting so in retrospect they're basically helping us," said Kraemer.

Kraemer says she'll continue hanging the signs until the election but has agreed to cover them up when school buses go by.