Planned Parenthood Unveils TV Ads Backing John Kerry on Abortion

LifeNews ^ | October 16, 2004 | Steven Ertelt

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Minneapolis, MN (LifeNews.com) -- The political arm of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, today unveiled its initial television advertising campaign on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Two different television ads will appear on cable television stations in Minneapolis and other large cities in eight key battleground states. They target single women -- voters that the abortion advocacy group and believes are more receptive to Kerry's pro-abortion views.

The $1 million dollar television campaign features 30-second ads that will run on stations such as MTV, TBS and USA through election day. Actress Helen Hunt appears in the commercials saying the women voters "hold the power to change the course of our country."

"For the first time in history, Planned Parenthood endorsed a candidate for president, John Kerry," Hunt says. "This election is that important."

Some of the ads are scheduled to run in Wisconsin, another hotly contested state.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Political Director Chris Taylor said the ads will hopefully turn out some of the 22 million single women who did not vote in the 2000 presidential election.

"It's time for the Planned Parenthood to bring its extraordinary strength with critically important voting blocs to bear at a point in history when reproductive rights are most threatened," Taylor said.

The locales chosen for the Planned Parenthood ad buy -- states where Kerry is defending turn Al Gore won in 2000 -- signal presidential Bush's strength nationwide.

Minnesota and Wisconsin are two states that Bush is hoping to move to his column and the president trails Kerry by very small margins in both industrial Midwest states.

Whether Planned Parenthood will succeed in getting women voters to mobilize behind Kerry is a good question.

A June 2003 poll conducted by the pro-abortion Center for the Advancement of Women found that 51% took a pro-life position opposing most or all abortions while only thirty percent said it should be generally available.

In fact, leading abortion advocates are acknowledging that abortion doesn't resonate with women voters.

"Abortion is there, but it's not the primary issue" for women, Debbie Walsh, executive director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, told the Scripps Howard News service in July.

"When pollsters ask (women), 'What's the most important issue for you,' it's not coming up in the top two or three," Walsh explained.

Also this summer, Karen White of Emily's List, a political organization that backs pro-abortion candidates, told the Christian Science Monitor newspaper that abortion "is not an issue where a woman wakes up every morning and says, 'I am going to look up what my candidate thinks on abortion.'"

"Now, while it may be an important issue, and she may have a very strong opinion about it, [it] is not what is driving her to vote," White admitted.

Polls show that President Bush is faring better with women voters than he did in 2000 and Kerry is losing his large lead among women.

A Gallup poll released in late September showed Kerry leading Bush among women voters by a 50 to 46 percent margin. That's down from the 15 point lead Kerry held in a similar June poll and lower than the 11 point margin Al Gore had over Bush in the 2000 election.

Related web sites: View the Helen Hunt ad - http://action.plannedparenthoodvotes.org/video/Helen.mpeg

[Humidston]

No surprise here.... Dems are in the pockets of abortionists and trial lawyers. Oh, and we mustn't forget labor union thugs!

[hipaatwo]

Good, this should fire up Bushs' base.

[Mister Mellow]

Helen Hunt just got boycotted. Again Hollywood just doesn't learn. When are they going to realize that not only don't we care, I find it offensive that they think I think their opinion means enough to me to spout it on TV.

[Rakkasan1]

you can abort babies, but not smoke in a St.Paul bar; what happened to a waitress right to choose? the left confuses
death for freedom.

[Mamzelle]

Wish we had some money for "Kerry, the Partial Birth Abortion Candidate" ads...

[Txsleuth]

Every time I think I've reached my capacity for being disgusted by the Left, they surprise me and reach even further into the deep, hole of muck that makes up their campaign focus.

I heard a while back that somehow the Girl Scouts are affiliated with Pl. Parenthood - does anyone know, I have a granddaughter that may want to join.

I heard also that the abortion clinics make SO much money that they are on the top of the lobbyist donators to Kerry's campaign.

[NavVet]

Why in gods name do taxpayer dollars go to this group and NPR for that matter. I just don't get it.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Sweet, this is good for the base.

[Paul Ross]

Uh, how is it that Planned Parenthood can advertise on television within the 60 days before the election...and the NRA, etc. can't?

[Sybeck1]

Good news! Helen Hunt gets cut in half in the "Team America" movie!

[badpacifist]

Blood money, child sacrifice to your new religion.
Liberalism is the religion, abortion their sacrament.

[familyop]

"They target single women -- voters that the abortion advocacy group and believes are more receptive to Kerry's pro-abortion views."

I hope they spend and spend all that they have. They're preaching to their choir.

[FlJoePa]

"For the first time in history, Planned Parenthood endorsed a candidate for president, John Kerry," Hunt says. "This election is that important."

Then we need to cut ALL their Federal funding NOW!

As for you Helen, sweetie, shut up and try to act.

[theFIRMbss]

>As for you Helen, sweetie, shut up and try to act

Umm. Soft shirt. I love girls in soft shifts. If she'd just not say anything . . .

[Raquel]

Planned Parenthood - same people who tell teenagers to have sex, use chemical birth control, kill your baby if you get pregnant, use your baby's embryonic cells for research, and take your money.

They're backing Kerry, LOL, one more reason to vote for W.

[BradyLS]

Let's pray that genuine Roman Catholics aren't in the pockets of the Democrats.

[A. Pole]

Good, this should fire up Bushs' base.

They are so stupid - pro-abort people are already are pro-Kerry. This is good for Bush.

[Petronski]

I can picture the ad now:

[voiceover] "At Planned Parenthood, we're dedicated to dead babies..."

[chyron] Dead Babies

[voiceover] "...more and more mutilated, dead babies every year..."

[chyron] Mutilated, Dead Babies

[voiceover] "...especially the little brown ones."

[chyron] Especially Little Brown Ones

[voiceover] Vote for John Kerry. It's for the children.

[chyron] John Kerry: Especially For the Little Brown Ones

[voiceover] "I am Satan, and I approve of this message."

[not2worry]

I'm not so sure this won't back-fire. I know many single women and most of them are looking for a man to marry and raise a family.

Also, I know some women who have had abortions and 100% of them say they totally regret what they did to their unborn child. Each of them literally grieves around the date they would have given birth to the child, know how old the child "would have been" and have deep psychological scars. You also don't see them running around bragging that they had an abortion!

Just MHO.