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About a dozen members of a national right-to-life organization conducted a protest outside a Cabarrus County high school Tuesday morning.
Protesters from Dallas-based Operation Save America held signs, some with graphic photos of fetuses, and spoke on a loudspeaker as students and parents arrived at Cox Mill High School near Harrisburg.
The group's members held the protest on a sidewalk in front of the school, on Cox Mill Road. About a dozen police officers and sheriff's deputies watched over the event, which took place without incident.
Several members of the group held large white posters, protesting abortion. Flip Benham, who said he organized the protest, strode back and forth on the sidewalk, holding a Bible in his left hand and preaching via microphone and speaker system.
All this took place while vehicles carrying students arrived peacefully at the school for the start of classes.
Cabarrus County Schools officials sent automated telephone calls to parents of Cox Mill students Monday evening, informing them of the rally, which is took place off school property.
Ronnye Boone, a spokeswoman for the Cabarrus County Schools, said the school system was not taking a position on the beliefs of Operation Save America.
"Our concern was that we did not want them to disrupt our students and staff," Boone said.
Organizers of Operation Save America say this morning's event in Cabarrus County was among 50 such rallies scheduled across the country today, in memory of an abortion rights protester who was shot and killed Sept. 11 in Michigan while holding a protest near a school.
