Help fund pro-life congressional candidate’s graphic abortion ads
Pro-lifer Missy Smith decided to run against pro-abort Democrat DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for one reason: To air graphic abortion ads on tv.
Norton is an entrenched incumbent in an overwhelmingly liberal district.
But the political contest is beside the point, although Missy has run a serious campaign, she tells me, making inroads at several black churches. Missy won the Republican primary with 87% of the vote.
Federal law mandates network stations must air candidate’s ads unedited. More on the law in the Politico story below.
Missy tells me at present she has contracted to air her ads a total of 15 times beginning October 18 on all the major networks – ABC, CBS, NBC – and several cable* outlets such as MTV. Missy is targeting youth audiences on such shows as David Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert. (*Cable stations aren’t bound by the same federal laws as network stations, so Missy is currently in negotiations with them. But the network ads are definitely happening.)
Missy will continue to run ther ads as long as the money keeps coming in. She promises 100% of donations will go to fund airing them. Donate here. Reminder: DC is the belly of the abortion beast.
Not only will the ads themselves get attention, but our issue is getting attention. Missy called this morning to say the local ABC News affiliate was on its way to conduct an interview to air on its news show tonight.
Here are the ads. WARNING: Graphic.
Ben Smith from Politico explained the legal mandate to run the ads in a piece this morning:
An anti-abortion candidate running for Washington, D.C.’s shadow Congressional seat will begin airing a harrowingly graphic campaign advertisement on local broadcast channels beginning next week.
The candidate, Missy Smith, is an ally of longtime hard-line anti-abortion activist Randall Terry, and her ad features horrifying images of aborted fetuses.
“I killed two of my babies by abortion,” she says in the ad. “Obama, Pelosi, Reid, [Rep. Eleanor Holmes] Norton – they all support the murder of babies.”
The ad, linked at the bottom of these items, contains extremely disturbing images, but a lawyer for Allbritton Communications, which owns the D.C. ABC affiliate WJLA (and also owns Politico) said the stations have no choice but to air it.
“Much as broadcasters may be repulsed by these graphic images and are sensitive to their viewers, Federal law requires stations to air the spots,” Allbritton general counsel Jerry Fritz wrote in an e-mail.
Fritz cited a similar 1992 GA case in which an anti-abortion candidate, Daniel Becker, sought to run a similar ad on an Atlanta station.
“The station asked the FCC for permission to channel the spot into time periods when children would be less likely to be in the audience – late night. Other broadcasters joined in and asked the commission for the right to refuse the spot altogether,” Fritz e-mails. “The FCC gave permission to permit the channeling, but Becker appealed. The D.C. Court of Appeals found for the candidate in a 1996 decision.”
The reason, per Fritz: The Communications Act requires broadcast stations to sell “reasonable amounts” of ad time to qualified Federal candidates, and bars stations from making any changes to those spots, in what’s known as the “no censorship” provision.
Fritz added that in his understanding, Smith requested ad time from WRC, WTTG and WUSA as well as WJLA.
The ad can be seen here, but I don’t recommend it.
Why not, Ben? I thought journalists were supposed to pursue the truth, wherever it leads. Again, please donate generously to Missy Smith’s campaign here for a rare opportunity to get the truth of abortion out on network television – and in an urban area that desperately needs to see the truth.
So, the images are “horrifying” and “extremely disturbing,” but the abortion itself is not?
Yeah Jeanne..the pro-abort anger is always placed on the messenger not on the actual horrifying and disturbing act.
Shine the light of truth on the devil’s masterpiece.
America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion.
Great piece, as usual, Ms. Stanek. You are an inspiration to other young women.
As for the ads: WONDERFUL. Even if she doesn’t win the election, thank goodness something protects the right to free speech in our society, and women can hear what abortionists lie about to them: that the baby is just tissue, and not a child. Yet, according to medical definition of life, all signs of life are present by 8 weeks (brain wave, respiration, heartbeat)! One of Canada’s most effective tools in lowering the teen smoking rate was the heavy use of graphic imagery in their advertisements in a campaign from roughly 15 years ago. I am happy to hear that she is permitted use of the advertisements. Would be nice if the Super Bowl folk hadn’t banned Tebow’s ad, which was not graphic at all? Don’t you just love media bias? (note heavy sarcasm)
God Bless, Jill, and keep up the great work.
TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Supreme Court is allowing a criminal case against a suburban Kansas City abortion clinic move forward.
But in a unanimous ruling Friday, the court put conditions on the testimony of several potential witnesses and limits on what documents they can be ordered to produce.
The justices sent the case back to Johnson County District Court, where it had been filed in 2007.
Planned Parenthood’s clinic in Overland Park faces 107 charges, including 23 felonies. It is accused of falsifying records and performing illegal late-term abortions, which it denies
Go Missy Smith! May God bless you and work miracles for you!
i’m not so sure how i feel about this. [note, i haven’t watched the ads so this might not be accurate]. if what she is airing is footage from a real abortion, i almost find it disrespectful or unfit to the person who died in such a tortured manner. i felt the same when after 9/11 the footage of those who jumped from the windows of the towers was aired ceaslessly. i can’t help but think that death has a certain sanctity to it, especially when life is taken unwillingly, and that we must respect that.
It is the only baby picture we have of these children and God uses the weak to shame the strong. These photos save women and their children from the same fate.
It is more than disrespectful to burn or hack a preborn human to death! It’s murder!
GO MISSY SMITH!!!
RRRRRRRAAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRRR at the first video!!
From a post abortive mom who knows exactly what you mean!
Ya know, if I died in a car accident I wouldn’t want pictures of my corpse all over the internet. But if a drunk driver killed me and the picture of my bloodied corpse was used to educate others on drunk driving and saved lives I would be all for it. Pro-lifers don’t air photos of aborted babies for kicks but to educate that THIS IS ABORTION!
If I had had to jump out of a building on 9/11 (I have thought about that. The horror of that makes me shudder!) I would want others to view what happened to me and be enraged. Look what they did to me!!!!! I want JUSTICE!!!! Thats how I think. The photos of aborted babies are showing us the injustice that was done to them and saving the lives of other women and babies
Hey folks-‘prochoicegal’ is gonna school ya on who God really is-don’t miss out now ;)
http://www.bigbluewave.ca/2010/10/abortion-gang-member-talks-about-who.html
Yeah I don’t get their mentality:
‘These images are horrifying. How could she be so crass and brutal as to show these?’ but they never take the next step and think, oh wait, this is the very thing I defend as “choice.” Do they honestly not get it?? It’s not the person who shows the pictures that is brutal or evil, it’s the person who defends what happened to that baby in the pictures!
lux_perpetua – I agree there should be respect for the deceased, but there is a distinct difference between gratuitous or voyeuristic display of those who are dead, and what can only be said to be a righteous purpose.
You may want to consider which has more sanctity – life or death. I was not the little one’s choice to die, nor have their bodies photographed, but their photos have turned hearts and saved lives. I imagine when all these souls are re-united with their Creator, they will rejoice in how their lives spoke for God’s glory.
Good job, Jill. We have been working hard to get the pro life movement to use graphic pictures for some time and to get support from the mainstream pro lifers. I hope more of the pro lifers, such as yourself do what you did by publishing a positive article about Missy’s campaign. I find it somewhat hypocritical that many in the pro life movement find Missy’s ads ‘offensive’, then turn around and gripe about how the MSM ‘shortchanges’ this issue. the more we can raise funds for Missy, the more commercials can be run, and drive the likes of Pelosi crazy with the truth that contradicts her distorted beliefs. Thank you for the positive press. George Offerman prolifedefender.com
I wish that these ads included a post-abortion hotline number.
Wow!!! Go Missy Smith! It’s about time!!!! Good luck and God bless you in your run!
If you are struggling after your abortion are in need of help please call The National Helpline for Abortion Recovery
1-866-482-LIFE(5433)
They will connect you with abortion recovery resources in your area.
The graphic video was removed from You Tube stating, “This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy on shocking and digusting content.” but they’ll gladly show graphic animal cruelty with titles like “shocking and disgusting footage of dogs and chickens” maybe because if they can change just one mind or heart, we all can put an end to the torture of animals…
even a chicken has a fighting chance
The ad just aired here at 4:00, when young children were in the room. Thank heavens the station gave a warning first. This is inappropriate. Sorry, I don’t agree with these tactics. You can be pro life without showing this garbage!
I’m guessing you’re not really prolife Patricia.
I am a Catholic mother of 2….COMPLETELY pro-life. I just find the ads offensive and totally hypocritical when she has had 2 abortions. Sounds like guilt to me…she was lied to? Poor her? Sorry, I don’t buy it. Do as I say but not as I do…it’s a crock and again, disgusting.
Yes liberal K, I realize you’re a troll. Abortion is legal in the US up until birth (Doe v. Bolton) and most women don’t even realize they are pregnant at 6 weeks. no state in the US makes 6 weeks the limit. Are you sure you know how to use the internet, dear?
Hi Patricia,
If she’s had two abortions and has sought forgiveness for those actions, it could be that she feels she owes it to others who were perhaps deceived as she was.
I doubt she’s looking for any sympathy for HERSELF, if she’s showing murdered unborn children on the screen. Don’t you think it’s beneficial for those who have been there and have made those mistakes to try to dissuade others from choosing the same and experiencing the same devastating consequences?
No, I don’t think there is ANY benefit to those commercials. We don’t need to see that….and honestly, I don’t think it will stop people if they truly believe in abortion. The person with the Liberal handle had a point, although they were rude and should not have gone as far as they did. Those pictures look like pictures of older babies, not early term abortions. I think the facts are distorted to prove a point.
I recently went to a meeting for a Christian group. One of the young teens was giving us a sample of a report she had to do on abortion. She said she had very graphic pictures and asked if we wanted to see them. Another member there spoke up and asked the room if there was anyone who was pro-abortion. Of course, no one said yes. The woman then stated that she would rather skip the pictures. She did not want to see them and nor do I want to see them in my living room.
I did NOT need to see these disgusting things in my own living room. That’s my choice and now I know to change the channel when I see it coming. I just don’t believe this is the way to go about getting elected for anything. And bashing the President, whether you like him or not, is just wrong. So I live in Virginia, but I would rather not vote than to vote for Missy Smith.
I did NOT need to see these disgusting things in my own living room. That’s my choice and now I know to change the channel when I see it coming. I just don’t believe this is the way to go about getting elected for anything. And bashing the President, whether you like him or not, is just wrong. So I live in Virginia, but I would rather not vote than to vote for Missy Smith.
I don’t live in VA where I need to vote for or against Missy Smith.
What is disgusting to you? Abortion photos or abortion itself? Do you feel the same way about Holocaust photographs?
Is there a difference to you between “early term abortions” and “older babies?”
You don’t have to click here, since you don’t want to see those “disgusting” photos of children whose lives didn’t matter to people enough to acknowledge them or bury them, but here is a link “early term” abortion photos: http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures.html
To me, it makes no difference. A life is a life. Yes, it’s hideous to look at abortion pictures. Yes, it is disturbing. The fact that we ALLOW this in our country should be what disgusts us, not the fact that there are some who choose to reveal, through photographic evidence, how heinous a thing abortion truly is. A 6 minute video called “Hard Truth” changed my life. Hideous abortion footage… and it prompted me, for the first time, to get up and do something about abortion instead of just giving it a little “pro-life lip service.”
Patricia, For a Christian, you don’t seem very forgiving.
I am forgiving. But I do resent having this garbage in my home. Sorry, she had two abortions…that’s not for me to judge. She has to have peace with it. I don’t believe she does. Her ads are on at inappropriate times. It’s that simple.
I do not agree with abortion, but when I saw one of those ads on TV, it made me sick. I didn’t need to see those pictures to disagree with abortion. *shaking head*
Imagine this scenario…relaxing and laying in bed with my husband after midnight watching The Late Show…a warning ad comes on and we think it is part of a skit so we proceed to watch…then the commercial shows extremely disturbing and shocking pictures which took my breath away and severely upset me to the point I was angry. I have a 13 year old and if she would’ve been up late on a weekend and saw this commercial it could be damaging to her as I am still disturbed by the images. I believe in free speech and if you’re platform is protecting the victims…what about the innocent people who are being victimized by watching your commercial? Why can’t you get your point heard or seen with facts and not grotesque images? How cruel are you to expose people to these? Contradiction?
Trese, you said you got angry. Angry at whom? Were you angry that there are actually people doing this to children in our country? Or you got angry because you were shown the images and you didn’t want such a killjoy on your night of relaxation? So you are just content to allow children to be ripped limb from limb and you will go on watching your late night shows. As long as YOU don’t have to see or think about it…. whatevs, right?
Pulease. Channel your anger at the appropriate people. The people actually doing the killing, not the people trying to STOP the killing.
Right Sydney.
Trese, When I was in counseling in attempts to save a terrible marriage, the counselor told me, “Anger will save you.” I did not understand at first what she meant by that.
Throughout our sessions, the counselor asked how I felt when my husband did certain things (name calling, cheating, pushing, etc., etc.) I always replied, “sad.” “upset.” “scared” but never answered ”angry”. After all, he was the angry one not me.
I literally could not feel anger. The counselor explained that I needed to get angry enough to see how damaging this relationship was to myself and our children. She taught me about appropriate anger. (Many if not most women are brought up to smile and play nice.)
Finally I learned how to feel anger and then how to appropriately express it. I got angry enough to do something about all the abuse. I finally divorced the @$#$%#!
Anger did indeed save me and allowed me to have the peaceful, fulfilling life I have today.
If you are opposed to the killing of the unborn, you need to be ANGRY and do something to stop it. In fact, I feel you are obligated to or otherwise you are a part of the problem. It’s not about using violent, inappropriate anger like the proaborts do but getting angry enough to help prolifers get abortion illegalized in our country.
Vote Prolife and demand accountablity from those in charge. Look at the pictures of the innocents and DO SOMETHING to stop this atrocity!
We should be damn angry about what abortion does to women and to innocent humans.
After all it is as real as the Holocaust was.
It’s OK to GET ANGRY!!! Help us STOP abortion!
It is called righteous anger. When Missy talks about being lied to at the abortion clinic I SO GET THAT! I was lied to at the clinic as well!!
Get angry enough to stop those that DO THE KILLING, not at those who take the photos that show the world what abortion does to a growing child.
I am horrified that my 6 year old saw it while we were watching the news. We were busy making dinner and did not hear the disclaimer and turned around to it. She is asking me why they are showing dead babies on tv. There is a time and place for this. But during the evening news where a child can see it. What were they thinking? I believe in it only for extreme situations but not birth control. But to have to try and explain to her why. I should not have to do that to a 6 year old. How thoughtless and heartless? You might have been deceived, that is your issue. But to traumatize a little one who is here by a miracle at being born at 28 wks. Me almost dieing to have her.
Red,
You do realize that babies are aborted at 28 weeks and beyond with great frequency in the US? Babies just as precious as your child are tortured to death while people like you pretend its not happening and as long as the case is “extreme” its okay.
What if I said I was okay with killing 6 year olds in “extreme” cases. Would you not be horrified? You’re part of the problem Red because you won’t be part of the solution.
If “choice” (*SNORT LAUGH*) is what you’re fighting for, these pics should not offend you.
I don’t understand what’s so “offensive” about them. Tragic? Yes. Horrifying? Yes. But they are the truth. If one is so willing to support a cause as flimsy and self-serving and gruesome as “choice,” you shouldn’t be offended to look at it. I’m glad these photos make people sick. Abortion IS sick.
Sorry but have NO right to air these pictures in my home. Abortion may be sick…it may be your agenda to stop it (good luck with that), but too bad…I DO NOT support a sick candidate who has this kind of ad. Period the end. I have and will turn this off every single time it is aired. it is my choice not to watch. You are will to sacrafice anything for YOUR agenda. These ads are inapproriately aired. There is NO question about that. How about educating people about birth control or abstinence instead? Why no ads about this? Because there is a shock factor involved and that is what’s going on here.
No, Patricia, it is about the truth. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
You don’t have to look. But she has a right to air these ads, especially because this is what pro-aborts fight for. What’s so disgusting about it? It’s choice! Look at it! Celebrate it!
Please. We do not have the right NOT to be offended. Look away if you want. People aren’t going to reject abortion until they see it. Sorry the truth offends you.
See your truth? Because you think it’s wrong? Not everyone does. No matter what you say or do, you will NOT change people’s minds if they are pro-choice. She DOES NOT have a right to air these ads. Technically, but not morally. There would be no warning by the TV stations if she did. Celebrate what? You have to be kidding me. If it’s “choice” as you say, then you should respect people’s choice, not judge them for it, not call them murderers. You have no right to judge…..people have to live with their choices and face God with them..that’s between them and God, not Missy or you. I have EVERY right to be offended.
I stand by my answer and think Missy is an appalling person. Won’t be back here to bicker about this. It’s just wrong. Peace.
Patricia does not think its wrong to tear children limb from limb. Everyone got it? I sure do. Patricia, we get it. We get it. You are pro- killing children. GOT IT!
No, truth is truth. It isn’t MY truth. Truth isn’t relative. Obviously, these ads bother you, Patricia. Why?
I didn’t call anyone a murderer. If you are pro-abortion (sounds like you are), then you should not be offended at these photos because that is the right you are fighting for. I can view pictures of the Holocaust, and though they disturb me, I look at them because they are the truth. How is this different? I guess, also, you don’t understand sarcasm. Pro-aborts are so in love with the idea of abortion they can’t understand how anyone could possibly be against it. I believe in choices, sure. I don’t believe that killing babies is a choice. How can a person even begin to think that? I used to be pro-abortion until I realized how foolish and selfish and ridiculous I sounded. I’ve taken more biology classes than you could know, I’ve read more court cases than you could ever understand, and got an undergraduate degree in philosophy. After a while, science and logic made me see that abortion is not a “choice” and it is not a “right” and it is not “okay”….It is gruesome. You see that, Patricia, because you see the pictures.
We do not have the right to condemn people to Heaven or Hell. We *DO* have the right to judge actions. By your way of thinking, I suppose we shouldn’t punish rapists, or serial killers, or thieves. Because that’s “judging.” Give me a break, Patricia. Why do we have judges and prosecutors? What world are you living in?
If you are AGAINST abortion and don’t like the pictures, just don’t look at them.
Typical of pro-aborts, they never want to actually face the moral perversion they are a party to. They will use any excuse to avoid showing their children what demented and degraded people they have for parents. My hope is that when these people go to hell, and they will, that each and every body part from every aborted child will ooze over them and drown them in the pits of hell.
Dave,
Eh. Your last sentence was a little over the top, dude.
As a post abortive mom who has found forgiveness, the body parts of my daughter who died in my abortion will not be oozing over proaborts in hell.
Aubrey is in heaven. Someday I will be with her.
God forgives those who repent and seek His face. God can change hearts. He changed mine.
I am not part of the problem. I dont really believe in abortion but to put those ads out there for children to see is horrible. I have seen what people do to one another, that is horrible also. I was there for 9/11 doing the clean up for weeks. It was appalling and humbling. But I would never put photos out for you to see what I saw. Then maybe people would be more angry about that also, still. My sister in law had to abort her child because it was killing them both. Neither of them would of made it. I supported her decision and it was not an easy one. There are times it might be necessary. But Missy made her choice, she could not be that naive. When the egg and sperm become one it is a life. I lost my son at 13 weeks and that killed me. Yes, they do late term abortions and I think that is disgusting. So dont begin to tell me that I am part of the problem. I spent 21 years risking my life to save others and seeing what people do to one another. Get off your high horse and help those people also.
Red, how do you know what any of us pro-life people do? How do you know in my free time that I am not helping other people? you talk about a high-horse! You should know huh? you seem to know what all of u pro-lifers do every minute of every day! You know what charities we do or don’t support and what people we have or haven’t helped, huh?
You are directing your anger at those of us who are trying to defend innocent children from being butchered, thus you ARE part of the problem. You are like those whites 160 years ago who said “Well, I don’t own slaves and I think its terrible but who are you to print the details of slave beatings? Who are you to publish photos of their backs deformed by years of whippings?” Yes Red, you are just like that. If you really are against abortion then do something about it! If you don’t, then I doubt you’re really against abortion. Lip service means nothing.
“I dont really believe in abortion. . .”
Uh, yes you do Red.
Fence riders are the reason the Holocaust went on as long as it did. Fence riders are the reason slavery lasted as long as it did. Fence riders are the reason abortion is still legal.
Fence riders are not just a part of the problem. They are the problem.
You’ll notice how small my horse really is once you come closer. But that would mean you would have to get off the fence.
Missy was lied to about abortion. So was I.
Maybe you should watch the videos again, Red.
I don’t really want to play Blame the Post Abortive Women tonight.