Posted on 08/05/2014 8:41:56 PM PDT by Morgana
A new campaign advertisement from U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, criticizing his Republican opponent's pro-life stance, features a mother holding her young daughter and saying the child is the reason abortion should remain legal.
As a female narrator criticizes Republican Congressman Cory Gardner’s "history [of] supporting harsh anti-abortion laws,” the camera cuts to a dark-haired woman holding a girl, who appears to be less than 10 years old, on her lap.
“I want my daughter to have the same choices I do,” she says.
The narrator also references “Gardner's eight year crusade that would ban birth control.”
“Seriously?” a woman says.
“It's 2014!” the mother adds.
Similar false claims were made in an ad by the Senate Majority PAC, which stated Gardner and other pro-life candidates want to lock women in jail for having an abortion.
The attacks are the sort that led to Gardner's repudiation of the Personhood movement and his support for selling birth control over the counter.
The proposed statewide amendment would have legally protected every person “from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.” It specifically stated post-abortive mothers would not be jailed. Although many forms of birth control may cause an early abortion, nothing in the amendment explicitly outlaws any form of contraception. Gardner favored its passage until he entered the Senate race against Udall in March.
But some forces in the state claim the issue is losing its potency. A survey conducted last month for Colorado Women's Alliance showed Colorado's female voters are rejecting the “war on women” rhetoric. Two-thirds of independents and registered Republican women say they "do not fear a government bureaucrat taking birth control away from them." Instead, women say they “fear...politicians using the issue of ‘access to birth control’ as a political tactic to scare them into voting a certain way."
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That may be bad news for Udall, who has sounded this theme in prior ads, and for the Democratic Party nationally – especially during a midterm season that is expected to heavily favor Republican candidates. As the actions of both the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee show, Democrats have tailored their 2014 messaging around the theme of patriarchal politicians and business owners denying women no-pay contraceptives.
Polls show the U.S. Senate race in Colorado as a statistical dead heat.
Video on link
typed in udall abortion and found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V4POLXJV8 posted in June
Prob not same ad but it shows the mother and daughter and has him talking about “you have the right to...make your own choices”. As with other Udall for Colorado uploads, comments are disabled.
But...
https://www.facebook.com/udallforcolorado has reaction
Not exactly same ad:
>>As a female narrator
This one is narrated by him
Found the original video. It’s linked off the Udall Campaign website, but it’s a different link than the one from the Life Site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=26sbLmONB2Y
That woman makes it sound like having an abortion is like picking out a prom dress.
About as insane as the American electorate looks when crazies like this get elected.
She had several choices, NO sex, or give the baby up for adoption. Which would have freed her of all obligations.
I would give all I had to have the two I lost. 1 because he was born with a fatal contagious disease lived 33 days. The other was murdered when he was just 16 by a sociopath.
All Gardner needs to do is run an ad to the effect of, "Why no, I don't support banning condoms, diaphragms, spermicidal jellies, and the like. My opponent's claim that I want to 'ban birth control' is completely ridiculous on its face."
Make the Democrats clarify that what they really meant was "abortion" and make them own that support for abortion, instead of trying to hide behind the focus-group approved term "birth control."
We wouldn't want to be "backwards" would we?
Does this woman feel that she was punished with a baby/child?
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