I saw the kids, they were all bundled up. I think the reason children were involved was because it was an anti-abortion demonstration, and nothing says "anti-abortion" like a bunch of kids, who obviously were not aborted. They weren't protesting, they were standing on the side of the road holding up signs.
The only time I've had issue with something like this was when something similar (albeit heinous) happened in Va Beach. A friend of mine had a miscarriage at 6 months, and was given the option to deliver the fetus, or basically have a mock abortion. She wasn't strong enough emotionally to deliver a dead child, so she opted for the abortion-type method. She still isn't the same, and it happened about 5 years ago. Then one day she was driving down the road, and saw some people holding signs. She glanced at one, an anti-abortion poster, with a picture of an aborted fetus on it. That has to be the most horrible and insensitive thing a person could ever do. I don't care if it's meant to be that way, if the shock factor is supposed to get to people, but it was the middle of the day on a Saturday, I'm sure more than one child had to see that.