Super Bowl graphic abortion ad campaign expands
Since I wrote a week ago that Randall Terry’s dream of airing graphic abortion ads during the 2012 Super Bowl was becoming a reality, liberals and MSM nationally and internationally have been abuzz with the story.
Terry reports ad contributions have been rolling in. He is eligible as a presidential candidate to purchase ads in 35 NBC metropolitan media markets. He has now secured 11, up from two last week. Terry will only be limited by the amount of money he has to spend.
Donate here to help bring this unique opportunity to fruition: showing Americans the truth about abortion when their eyes will be glued to the television, actually looking forward to viewing the Super Bowl’s popular commercials.
Terry’s Super Bowl ad has now been completed. Here ’tis. Note the warning at the beginning, which is good:
Meanwhile two other pro-lifers who entered the ring as congressional candidates specifically to air graphic abortion ads on television have announced they also will purchase air time during the Super Bowl.
Activist Angela Michael, pictured right, a retired RN who spends most of her time counseling outside the huge Granite City mill in southern Illinois, is running unopposed on that state’s Democrat ticket in the 15th Congressional District. Michael announced today she will purchase ad time in the St. Louis market. View her graphic abortion ads and contribute to her campaign here.
Activist David Lewis, pictured right, is running for Congress in Ohio’s 8th District on the Republican ticket against Speaker of the House John Boehner. Lewis has announced he will run graphic ads during the Super Bowl in the Cincinnati/Dayton area. View them and contribute here.
[Terry photo via CatholicOnline.org]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Awesome!
I still remember Brother Terry’s Grim Reaper outfit.
“Hey Bro. Terry, you clean up pretty good!”
I like the ad. Probably a good idea to tone down the blood like they did.
I don’t know though, part of me wishes the ad had a little more punch.
PIP,
Are the Democrats for Life rallying behind Terry for president?
the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010 (Wildlife Protection Act of 2010.pdf) –is “crazier than fiction” because it requires that rats and other vermin not be killed but captured, preferably in families; no glue or snap traps can be utilized; the rodents must be relocated from where they are captured; and some of these animals may need to be transferred to a “wildlife rehabilitator” as part of their relocation process. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/va-ag-fears-dc-law-may-relocate-rat-families-virginia
Among democRATs this is known as ‘extending professional courtesy’.
There may not be honor among thieves, but there is reciprocity.
Hey Ken,
Where do you think they’re going to relocate all the #Occupy people?
Al Gore’s mansion, I hope. ;P
Maybe one of Trump’s buildings xalisae?
bro ken,
It does show there is honor among RATS.
Great idea. Poor ad. It looks like it was done by an amateur with free video editing software. Perhaps they should use some of the money to hire a video media specialist.
I don’t like these graphic ads. For one thing, the people at the March are already prolife. They don’t need to be convinced. For the second thing, there are so many young children at the March. They don’t need to see these pictures. For the third thing, these pictures are not helpful. They don’t work to convince anyone. I don’t think this giant screen is a good idea.
An addendum to my previous comment. My daughter made the observation that these pictures are disrespectful of the dead babies. We wouldn’t put a picture of a dead soldier on a giant poster, or a murdered person. Why are we putting these little ones on giant tv screens? Shame on us.
Judy,
While I understand your concern with the pictures, I would like to point out that until an abortion ad with totally graphic pictures was viewed by my sister, she was not pro-life. The sad reality is that this is real, pro-abortionists want these images hidden like the poor babies that are thrown away every day. People, such as myself, have been taught that it is a blob of tissue. These pictures prove otherwise, and they open the eyes of many people that are on the fence. While you mention that a soldier would not be put up like that, I would certainly hope that the images from concentration camps, mass graves, etc. would be shown to the world in order to stop such atrocities from continuing.
You are right K G. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. did not get a response until he marched so that America could see and hear; the beatings, the firehoses, the hate-filled words of Bull Connor, the screaming out of the”n” word, the expose’ of”white only” lunch counters, bathrooms and water fountains being shown to the entire world. Father Frank is right “America won’t reject abortion until Amerca sees abortion”. God bless.
If these pictures worked, abortion would be outlawed. They don’t work. They only marginalized.
it’s also disrespectful how some of these images were obtained. while yes, some were from garbage cans and dumpsters, which is reprehensible, obviously, some are abortions that took place in 3rd world countries, filmed without the mother’s permission/knowledge, making the cinematographer complicit as well. degrading to women, and despicable behavior.
the whole thing is just dehumanizing these babies. how can prolifers expect those viewing it to see the humanity of these babies if they aren’t being treated as such? what a waste of millions of dollars to feed the ego of randall terry.
Which is more disrespectful or reprehensible?
To shred a tiny innocent fully alive human being to bits?
OR
To photograph that tiny shredded innocent fully dead human being to show the world the atrocity of shredding tiny innocent fully alive human beings?
A mother who paid an abortionist to kill her child was degraded when she got on the table to allow it. She hardly gets to have a say over whether someone can photograph her dead child who was treated like garbage at her request.
Good grief. The photographers of the skeletal remains of the Jews outside concentration camps must be complicit as well.
THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW OF THE HORRIFYING AND HEINOUS, EVIL ACT THAT IS ABORTION!!
perhaps i should have given more detail. a 14 year-old who has been raped by a grown man and will be murdered for delivering a child because she lives in an islamic country doesn’t deserve their vagina being filmed by a camera man who is now COMPLICIT in the death of her child. does THAT make any sense to you? yes, i do think that a woman who lives in a place where she doesn’t have options like american women is being further degraded. good grief, yourself. she’s not a 35 year-old career woman who is having an abortion so she can buy a new beemer.
and guess what – yeah, THAT would degrade her, too. because human dignity doesn’t live on a sliding scale where you get to decide who gets it or not. just because abortionists are vile and despicable in their actions, THEY are people, too. it’s what being prolife is about. valuing human life at ALL stages, in all circumstances.
and taking pics of skeletal remains at auschwitz is NOT the same, because those people were already dead and no one can save them. but that camera person was PAID by a “prolifer” to film a murder. to stand there and NOT offer help. to NOT tell the girl she had options. to NOT try to save a life.
You have not given “detail.” You have conjured up another ”worst case scenario” which has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Try again.
A child that is being aborted on camera DESERVED the right to live.
Yeah. You are right. Abortionists are people too. I should send the one that did my abortion flowers I suppose and thank him for his service. After all, he is a person.
I do not know the situations of each and every graphic abortion photograph. Do you? You know the story behind each vagina?
How did you come to be prolife? Just curious.
how does it not have to do with the topic at hand? using images obtained in this manner is not prolife.
i am truly sorry that you are suffering from your abortion, and while i don’t know you at all, might i suggest that you are beating yourself up for what you did. i can’t imagine how it must feel, i truly don’t.
but while i don’t think sending flowers (and i know you were being sarcastic) is necessary, i do think that treating people with dignity is vital, otherwise, what’s the point?
and while i don’t know the story behind every photo, i do have firsthand knowledge of some of them. and i wasn’t giving a worst-case scenario. GAP was unable to get permission to film here, so they went to countries where abortion is illegal and filmed a bunch of scared women, a good number of them under 18. that is a fact. and while yes, those children deserved to live, i think it’s beyond disgraceful how they were violated, and that while GAP knew they were obtaining abortions, did NOTHING to save those children! they needed for thos children to die for their purposes!!!!
while i’m guessing your last question was really meant to question my prolife stance, i’ll answer you anyway. my mother and father raised me to believe that life begins at conception and ends at natural death, and that all human life is sacred.
a 14 year old raped by a man living in an Islamic country……….conjured story that you made up to prove a point.
You are wrong to say that I am beating myself up over my abortion. If you don’t know me or my story at all there is no need to speculate. All you gotta do is ask.
I have more compassion for the children murdered and the women wounded in abortion than the abortionist who commits the act of legalized child killing for profit. He KNOWS exactly what he is doing.
I know first hand accounts of several folks who changed from proabortion to prolife by viewing an actual abortion and the remains of children killed in them.
Those little lives matter. To me. They matter and they did not die in vain. They lived. They died. I hold those photos to be the only photos that child will ever have and how sick and twisted we have become to continue to allow it. God help us. I grieve those children and the way they died. The way my daughter died.
You are more incensed about photographs then the deaths of those that are depicted in the photographs and that makes no sense to me.
You are welcome to your own opinions about graphic abortion photos. Say you hate them. Fine with me. Tell us we are not as prolife as you would like us to be but I can’t help wondering why you would come here with guns blazing and write like you want to fight with other prolifers??
carla, that’s what i’m telling you. i didn’t conjure that story. it’s what happened. it sounds like it’s made up because it’s horrifying to believe, but that. is. exactly. what. happened. sick, isn’t it?
and i see what you’re saying about graphic photos – babies found in dumpsters, etc. while i don’t agree with using them, i do see why others do.
and i really didn’t ever imply i was “more prolife” than anyone. not sure where you get that.
i wish you peace – i don’t have guns blazing, but yes, when i think something is wrong and hurting the chances of saving lives, i do speak up. i think what randall terry is doing is wrong. i don’t think it will help. i think it will do more harm than good. i’m not alone in this opinion, either, and far more eloquent writers have said so.
So what you are saying is that there was an abortion filmed that involved a 14 year old girl that had been raped by a man in an Islamic country? Is it here on this thread?
Ok. The rape and the killing of a child by abortion are more horrifying to me than the filming of the truth of what happens in an abortion.
Your outrage seems to be misplaced. You are more horrified by the photographers than of what is being photographed. Legalized murder.
Anywhoo………..
You don’t like graphic abortion photos.
You don’t like Randall Terry.
You think that what Randall Terry is doing is wrong.
You think graphic abortion photos will do more harm than good.
Got it.
I disagree. :)
There that wasn’t so hard was it?
I wish you a good day in any event Jenn!!
i’m not more horrified by it, but i AM horrified that people are willing to compromise human dignity in their efforts. i wish people would consider that is all. and a good day to you as well. :)
“If these pictures worked, abortion would be outlawed”
What year(s) were these pictures shown during the Super Bowl? I remember the wardrobe malfunction but not the pictures of precious murdered children. I think I would remember that.
These photos need to be seen by as many people of voting age as possible. Prolifers can explain to those under voting age that they are doing everything possible to stop this atrocity. And proabort adults can explain to those under voting age exactly why they support killing other humans. They can tell our young people, “I am proud to support the killing of those dead children and many, many more like them.” Those who support this, need to own this.
Human dignity is ripped to shreds in an abortion.
I will fight until my dying breath to restore human dignity to innocent preborn human beings!!
I also find the claim that these types of photos don’t work to be without evidence. Only a small percentage of people who favor abortion have ever seen the photos of aborted babies because they don’t hang out in locations where those photos are shown.
As far a human dignity is concerned, we should be concerned with what happens to their bodies while a human is still living in them rather than when they are no longer being used by the human. After death, the body is where a human used to live.
Randall Terry was in Denver yesterday to hold a press conference. Here is the video. http://youtu.be/dkfEr8nFKM4
When I saw him debate in NH, I knew why he was up there. To run adds! I am so glad to see him. Sad to say, the GOP would never let him anywhere near a debate. They refuse to let Buddy Roemer in.
Yes there are many Democrats that are pro-life and some GOP pro-aborts. I am in the new district 11, Judy Biggert, who is NOT pro-life will probably get in. We need to stop thinking in terms of party.
I hope he can run as many adds as possible. I intend to contribute to this very noble cause, and wish him well.
I want nothing to do with these ads. I am 100% pro-life and 100% against the ads. I don’t need to see pictures of murdered people in order to know murder is wrong. Neither do my children.
Katie, of course you don’t need to see the pictures. No pro-lifer does, and by extension, neither do any children, because all children know that you shouldn’t kill a baby.
The pictures aren’t for the pro-lifers. They’re for the ones who support or – by their indifference – enable this horrific act. If the German people had been forced to see what went on in the concentration camps (which DID happen after WWII), they never would have allowed it.
The people advocating abortion MUST see the results of the act they are championing.
This has ABSOLUTELY no place being aired during the superbowl when families gather in front of the television. Impressionable children will see this ad, children who are too young to comprehend what they are seeing. The obscene amount of money paid to air this campaign could be put to so much better use- education and the real prevention of abortion- not shocking and appalling the american public. I am a conservative but find this frightening on so many levels… does he have any other value to the American public as president or is he just pushing a pro-life agenda???? Pull your heads out of your behinds folks… abortion happens because of poor family planning education, lack of resources, lack of the self esteem to say NO to premaritial sex and poverty… solve those issues and you will prevent abortion- make a law against it and it just goes black market where is it unregulated and there is ZERO education before the procedure is performed.
umm…if you’re not for the re-criminalization of abortion, you’re not actually a conservative, buddy. Sorry to break this to ya.
Yes, impressionable children will be seeing this ad. Children whose parents have been blowing smoke up their rears telling them things like “abortion is when a mommy waits to have a baby” or some b.s. like that. A sanitized version where the baby just *POOF*, becomes invisibly erased with no traces or consequences whatsoever. That’s why we have to SHOW these impressionable children who are being LIED TO by their own parents. These are people who are supposed to love, care for, and instruct these children, but who instead might’ve decided to have these kids thrown in a biohazard bag and call it Mommy and Daddy’s “choice”.
Is it important that we help with prevention? ABSOLUTELY. But sometimes even financially-comfortable married people get abortions, and we need to get the truth out to them before abortion is seen as just a giant sanitized eraser for the baby as well.
“Pull your heads out of your behinds folks… abortion happens because of poor family planning education, lack of resources, lack of the self esteem to say NO to premaritial sex and poverty…”
No, abortion happens because a woman chooses to kill her unborn child.
make a law against it and it just goes black market where is it unregulated
It’s been largely unregulated since it’s been legal, FYI. In Illinois alone, clinics have not been inspected for fifteen years. 15. Years.
And I always have to laugh at the argument that “if you make abortion illegal, people will still have them!” Yeah, well, theft and murder are illegal, and we still have them. But that doesn’t mean we make them legal and “safer” and by doing so would make them “rare.” Seriously, do pro-choicers ever listen to themselves or think logically?
What’s going to be shown? Is it an honest representation of what an abortion at a given stage is, and of how that stage is (i.e. how often is it really the case) as far as the percentage of legal, real abortions?
I’m betting what would be shown (as far as a “graphic abortion”) is an abortion at the weeks of gestation like in the very late teens or early in the 20’s, when such abortions really represent almost no abortions at all, i.e. a tiny, minuscule percentage points, if not even less than 1%.