Aborted Fetuses to Star in 2012 Election Ads

from Mother Jones:



David Lewis will not be the next congressman from Ohio's 8th District. But for Lewis, an unemployed former IT technician who is challenging House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in next year's Republican primary, winning isn't the objective.

By running for federal office, Lewis can compel local television stations to run grisly anti-abortion ads that would otherwise never stand a chance of making it on the air. Emphasis on grisly: Lewis' ads feature what purport to be dismembered fetuses, tied together in neat little bundles, or simply mangled beyond recognition. "The FCC says that 45 days out from a primary and 60 days out from a general election, we can run ads on a television station with FCC licenses—unedited, uncensored, they can't deny it as long as we buy the spot," he explains.

Lewis isn't alone. He is one of a handful of anti-abortion activists who have been recruited by Randall Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group Society for Truth and Justice, to run for office in metropolitan areas across the country. Together, they aim to exploit a Federal Communications Commission loophole and saturate major media markets with graphic anti-abortion images. What the ads lack in production values, they more than make up for in shock value. As he explained in an interview with Catholic Online last November, Terry, who is himself running for president as a Democrat, explained: "By running campaign ads in the top 25 media markets, we can reach one-third of the nation with a message about the truth and horror of abortion."

Terry's strategy was made possible by the pioneering campaigns of two National Right to Life Committee-backed congressional candidates, Michael Bailey of Indiana and Daniel Becker of Georgia, who, during the early 1990s, ran as Republicans in heavily Democratic districts. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/graphic-anti-abortion-ads-randall-terry-fcc

I don't think they will win any converts.

also, they don't like exposing their children to it either.

and no offense to puppies.

Frozen to death elderly, homeless starving, kids with no home. That is the true legacy of the Right. Once you are born, you're on your own.

Seriously, if you only care about the fetus and not what happens to it 9months later then you are ANTI-CHOICE not PRO-LIFE.

women's skirts and right into their uterus'. Then demand that government get out of their healthcare. I know they don't see the disconnect!

Not just those who have had abortions, but women who have suffered a miscarriage should not have to see that.