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Anti-abortion… Anti-women?

So, in between a life of much too busy, I hap­pened upon a news cast which, for lack of a bet­ter word, decried a cer­tain Super­bowl ad by Focus on the Fam­ily (in coop­er­a­tion with CBS, appar­ently. At least, accord­ing to this news cast). The news­cast seemed to give the impres­sion that any­one who pro­motes an anti-abortion posi­tion (i.e. “pro-life”) does not: (1) trust and value women (specif­i­cally, moth­ers) and girls, (2) respect fam­ily, (3) respect the rights and auton­omy of women. A planned par­ent­hood ad was shown in which it is said that the super bowl was the “per­fect time to honor both sports and fam­ily” (this ad being a response). The news­cast goes on to dis­cuss whether the ‘other side’ should be allowed their own adver­tise­ment advo­cat­ing abor­tion. How­ever, this is irrel­e­vant given that first few min­utes of the news­cast are spent poi­son­ing the well (against the … (Read more)