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Is This Pro-Life Ad Really ‘Too Controversial’? Several Major Newspapers Say (shortened)
www.theblaze.com ^ | Jul. 8, 2013 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 07/09/2013 1:34:04 PM PDT by kimtom

(image in article)

Several major U.S. newspapers reportedly refused to run a pro-life ad showing what a 20 to 24-week-old baby looks like in a woman’s womb. The ad was rejected for being “too controversial,” LifeSiteNews.com reports.

The Chicago Tribune, USA Today and the LA Times refused to run the advertisement created by Heroic Media, a national pro-life organization.

The ad, pictured below, features a hand holding a 20 to 24-week old baby accompanied by text that reads, “This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours. Speak up.” ........

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antiabortion; proabortion; prolife
My apologies, but the article and image says all.

a face on the crime!!!! (sorry if this is a repeat)

Does life deserve a chance???

1 posted on 07/09/2013 1:34:04 PM PDT by kimtom
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To: kimtom
How the left sees a fetus:


2 posted on 07/09/2013 1:39:27 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: kimtom

To liberals “controversial” means “it’s the truth”.

And since all truth is anathma to them....one of N expected sleazy reactions occurs. (Where N is a very large number.)


3 posted on 07/09/2013 1:40:00 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: GraceG

How effective is this ad?, How many could go through with an abortion after seeing this???

imagery is powerful, and the LEFT knows this!!!!!


4 posted on 07/09/2013 1:43:22 PM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: kimtom

We need billboards.


5 posted on 07/09/2013 1:44:36 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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They don’t consider it controversial. They consider effective.

The truth only hurts the baby killers’ cause.


6 posted on 07/09/2013 1:49:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: kimtom
Here's the image:


7 posted on 07/09/2013 1:50:22 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: kimtom

Why would anyone think this is too controversial? There are ads on television showing people with lost limbs, stroke issues and a hole in their neck to show what cigarette smoking can do. There is one ad that shows a young boy in a wheelchair... the result of a texting driver that struck him. So... why not this ad? Maybe because it isn’t the ad at all but WHAT the ad can do.. that is, influence people NOT to choose abortion. It also illustrates for any person who has had an abortion that the “lump of tissue” that they were told they were aborting.... wasn’t a lump at all. Just my thoughts...


8 posted on 07/09/2013 1:52:09 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: GraceG

If life is not sacred, nothing else is. There can be no liberty or pursuit of happiness without life first. That is why it should be called what it is: an insult to our Declaration of Independence. An insult to God.


9 posted on 07/09/2013 2:01:57 PM PDT by NotTallTex
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To: kimtom

The ad is not too controversial, the media which have rejected it are either too cowardly or are part of the dark side forces.

Or, both.


10 posted on 07/09/2013 2:02:46 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: kimtom
'Too controversial". Translation: too effective.
11 posted on 07/09/2013 2:07:08 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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A picture of a baby is too controversial for them.

Wow.

Just wow.

12 posted on 07/09/2013 2:27:28 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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OK. Change the wording to nothing more than:

"This is a 20 week old baby."

That should say it all.

13 posted on 07/09/2013 2:28:58 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Does life deserve a chance???

Leftism is a death cult, which explains why leftist regimes murdered 100–200 million of their own citizens in the twentieth century. That doesn't count people killed in wars, nor by abortion.

14 posted on 07/09/2013 2:42:27 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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The ad was rejected for being “too controversial,”

Translation: We don't want to anger our advertisers.

15 posted on 07/09/2013 2:48:37 PM PDT by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: NotTallTex
For the Left, this is what is sacred:

“The seven “sacraments” of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse, profess and promote. Their continuance in public office is a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation.”

- Bishop Doran

16 posted on 07/09/2013 2:52:42 PM PDT by lightman (Prosecute the heresies; pity the heretics.)
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