8 responses so far ↓

• 1 Terri // Feb 11, 2009 at 4:06 pm

  Super fucking offensive. The fact that Barack Obama would go on to become president of the United States should not mean that his mother should have been forced to give birth to him. What are these people thinking?

• 2 Gunti // Feb 11, 2009 at 4:20 pm

  By this measure, couldn’t we make an analogous commercial for every evil man/woman in recent history in FAVOR of abortion. I life five blocks north of the house where George W. Bush was born. Across the street from it is an abortion clinic. I think every time I drive past it: if only. That’s a fact.

• 3 dean // Feb 11, 2009 at 9:47 pm

  Gunti,

  Couldn’t we just go ahead, by your measure, and abort every single baby from here on out, since we don’t know if that baby will grow up to be evil or not? Are you wishing you’d never been born? Don’t you wish you were dead? No? Then you’re pro-life.

• 4 johnny // Feb 12, 2009 at 12:02 pm

  Powerful stuff. Pro-Lifers get to say that abortion, even before the fetus becomes viable, is murder. Pro-Choicers get to say that the baby is a organ of the mother’s body. Pro-Lifers get the rhetorical upperhand.

• 5 Menisa // Feb 12, 2009 at 3:38 pm

  As an unapologetic pro-choice advocate, I’m glad this attempt to over-simplify and racialize the complicated issue of abortion never made it to the airways. As a PR flak, I have to admire the piece’s creativity and admit it has the kind of audacity, emotion and “buzz” potential to be quite an effective ad.

• 6 dean // Feb 12, 2009 at 9:46 pm

  Not exactly sure how this ad racialized the issue. They used president Obama because he’s president and pro-choice. If anyone is racializing this issue, it’s Planned Parenthood, which has has been captured on tape saying they would accept contributions designated specifically for the abortions of African-American babies.

• 7 Terri // Feb 13, 2009 at 9:10 am

  Ever watch TV, Dean? Ever see the anti-choice ad (looks to be made in the 80s but still airs today) with this, “My people had choices made for them for hundreds of years.” Yeah, anti-choicers totally aren’t racist and women-hating…

• 8 dean // Feb 15, 2009 at 12:57 am

  Hi Terri…

  What I said was: “Not sure how THIS ad racialized the issue.” Why in the world are you bringing up a completely different ad than the one that is the topic of this conversation?

  And for the record, no, I haven’t seen the one you mentioned, so I have no frame of reference for your rant there.

  What I do know is that I’m pro-life, and I’m not a racist, nor do I hate women. Besides, I know plenty of pro-lifers (is there a distinction for you between pro-life and anti-choice?) who are women… so, do you think they hate women?

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