Posted on 10/16/2004 12:33:47 PM PDT by nwrep
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
PC Dems will be weaker each election. Why? Natural selection at work - they are aborting their children by millions and so the abort vote base is shrinking.
Roe took place 1973, voting age is 18 so it means that pro-abort forces lost voters born in 1973-1986. And their weakness will accumulate - you cannot fight against nature and logic.
So very true.
Its true, but they compensate by the fact that they are your kids teachers. They control the public schools, they control what your kid watches on television, and they control what he sees in the news.
So thats where we have to focus the fight, developing alternatives to left-controlled schools, news, and media. A lot of that is in fact happening, and it must happen faster if we are going to keep our kids from joining their ranks.
No I'm not going to vote for Bush cause he is a rino!! </sarcasm
You said it!!
Just remember--the VAST majority of those "thugs" work for the Government (AFSCME, SEIU, FOP, Firefighters') and in your schools (NEA.)
UAW, UMW, Teamsters, and Building Trades are a smaller and smaller percentage.
Many kids realize that if their parents were pro-abort they would not be alive.
Just imagine: If
scientists clone embryos,
("to help sick people")
that will create death
on an industrial scale.
A new scale for death.
Genuine devout Catholics aren't in Kerry's pocket. I come from a blue state (MD), and as far as I know, my immediate and extended family is voting Bush: Mom, Dad, 3 brothers, me, my sister, my only Grandfather, both Grandmothers, at least 2 aunts and uncles, probably more. They're all genuine Catholics (as opposed to CINOs).
Question: isn't a partisan ad like this a violation of the rules that govern tax exempt organizations?
Follow up: Can we get their tax-exemption revoked?
Life Cycle of a Charity - Jeopardizing Exemption
A section 501(c)(3) organization will jeopardize its exemption if it ceases to be operated exclusively for exempt purposes. An organization will be operated exclusively for exempt purposes only if it engages primarily in activities that accomplish the exempt purposes specified in section 501(c)(3). An organization will not be so regarded if more than an insubstantial part of its activities does not further an exempt purpose. A 501(c)(3) organization:
Must absolutely refrain from participating in the political campaigns of candidates for local, state, or federal office
Must restrict its lobbying activities to an insubstantial part of its total activities
Must ensure that its earnings do not inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual
Must not operate for the benefit of private interests such as those of its founder, the founder's family, its shareholders or persons controlled by such interests
Must not operate for the primary purpose of conducting a trade or business that is not related to its exempt purpose, such as a school's operation of a factory
May not have purposes or activities that are illegal or violate fundamental public policy.
In addition to loss of the organization's section 501(c)(3) exempt status, activities constituting inurement may result in the imposition of penalty excise taxes on individuals benefiting from excess benefit transactions.
We have any good lawyers in here, willing to take on Planned Parenthood. Seems to me this would be a slam-dunk!
I hope this is the final sayonara to the Catholic vote. And I'm sick and tired of my tax money funding PP and their pro-Kerry ads. A guy at church actually told me one Sunday that there were "millions of pro-choice Catholics" and he was smiling when he said it! That is, until he saw the expression on my face, and then he got my laser-beam reply (through gritted teeth, I might add): "Then they shouldn't call themselves Catholic." He was very, very quiet after that.
The answer to that is Yes. That's why we quit after three years.
Try Awana.org instead.
the United Way and your United Way contributions.
Exactly.
Let Kerry campaign on what he is really for, and the voters will leave him in droves.
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