Stop Bloody Anti-Abortion Ads Scheduled To Run During The SuperBowl
Petitions, Politics — By Kara Foran on January 14, 2012 6:25 amTarget: Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Goal: Prevent graphic abortion commercials from airing during the Super Bowl.
Commercials featuring bloody aborted fetuses are lined up to run during the Super Bowl. Randall Terry plans to air these graphic anti-abortion ads in over 40 cities across the country. Terry is the founder of Operation Rescue, a Christian pro-life group, and is sneakily running these ads based on a legal loophole he found within advertisement regulations. Call on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to intervene with these offensive advertisements before the Super Bowl airs on February 5.
The FEC dictates that television stations cannot prohibit a candidate’s political advertisements within 45 days of a election—including primary elections. Terry is exploiting this law, giving primary states with primary election dates between February 5 and March 20 no choice but to run these disturbing ads.
Terry has been arrested 50 times as well as spent a year in jail for his anti-abortion campaigning. He has recently announced he is running for president, but surprisingly is not representing the republican party. Terry is running on the democratic ticket against Barrack Obama, basing his campaign on pro-life. He has already run a serious of graphic anti-abortion ads in New Hampshire that insisted Obama supports child killing.
Airing photographs of bloody fetuses during the Super Bowl is a slimy and immoral political strategy. Families, including young children, will be subjected to these ads across America. Tell the FEC to regulate the graphic footage that Terry plans to broadcast. Terry is abusing a law intended to allow candidates equal opportunity to advertise prior to a campaign. His campaign for president is nothing more than a campaign against abortion—a fanatical spectacle that he hopes to force television viewers into witnessing via gruesome and graphic advertising.
PETITION LETTER
Dear Federal Election Commission,
Randall Terry plans to broadcast campaign commercials featuring bloody fetuses during the Super Bowl. No candidate should be refused the right to publicity, but this goes beyond political exposure and toward political perversity. Terry has recently announced his decision to run for president only to take advantage of the presidential campaign by using it as a means to fanatically spread anti-abortion media. Since television stations are required by the FEC to run politicians’ ads within 45 days of an election, primary states whose elections fall in this time window cannot legally refuse Terry’s anti-abortion ad requests.
The FEC must set boundaries for what political figures can commercialize during programs that have family viewers, as well as secure loopholes within campaign laws. If a pro-choice advocate decided to run commercials featuring rape victims in need of abortions, the media and its viewers would likely forbid those ads from airing. Furthermore, Terry implies that Obama is a murderer in these messages. What business does child-murder, distorted infant bodies, and bloody babies have on television—all of which are enabled by Terry’s phony run for president?
Please set boundaries on how political discourse is commercialized. Free speech is a vital part of our nation, but Terry can advertise his opinions via YouTube, show them in person during speeches, etc. There is no need to force television stations to air inappropriate ads through a legal loophole–a loophole that Terry is utilizing through a misled presidential campaign that only serves to sensationalize the issue of abortion. That is not free speech as much as it is a gross manipulation of media.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Al igual que se intenta salvar la vida de los animales de la esclavitud que padecen y que se intenta infomar en cuanto a otros seres que tambien son ejecutados en su etapa de vida más desamparada. En este respeto debe comenzar en el principio. Nadie es dueño de la vida de los más desprotegidos, ya sean niños, animales o seres vivos indefensos. Informar a la gente con fotos reales de lo que pasa, sobre lo que se hace con las personas no nacidas tambien es la realidad, y que cada uno con una muestra del hecho que vote en consecuencia. Si bien es verdad que la vida humana nunca ha de ser plataforma pra obgetivos politicos, tambien es verdad todo ser vivo es digno de respeto, y debe tener derecho a su vida.
The Holocause was so evil that words alone couldn’t describe it. I visited a college campus where there were displays of aborted babies alongside victims of Nazi death camps, the killing fields, American slavery, and other historical atrocities. Signs with warnings about the graphic photographs were posted clearly, so all those who looked did so by choice. Show them the reality of the choices they make. That way the pro-lifers can’t argue that they don’t know what they are doing when they have an abortion. We know a life is ended, yes its been sucked out or its skull has been crushed with forceps or whatever, it’s dead. Pro-choicers take pride in their work so why not show the fruits of their labour? We’ve all got a hand in it, even if it’s saying I support freedom of choice, it’s a tiny contribution to help a woman get rid of another kid, so why should we shy away from it?
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