65° P/SUNNY, CAMPAIGN BRIEFS BEDSHEET PROTEST Anti-abortion sign unfurled, taken down
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 6:09 a.m.
Anti-abortion activists unfurled a huge sign Tuesday on a mesa west of Denver equating the Democratic National Convention with abortion, but later removed it at the request of authorities.
The three-line sign on Table Mountain in Golden said "Destroys uNborn Children," with the capital letters DNC lined up vertically.
Denver-based American Right to Life Action said it placed the sign on the 6,551-foot flattop mountain.
About 50 people hiked up the mesa Tuesday to post the sign, but the heat and the exertion took their toll. Deputies sent to the scene gave those in distress food and water, Jefferson County sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Burns said.
Some of the protesters agreed to hike back up and take down the sign, made of more than 2,000 queen-size sheets sewn together to form individual letters. It was displayed for about three hours.
-- Press Democrat news services
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