[shhrubbery!]

I don’t see that as being all that important. The pro-life issue, as a voting issue, has faded precipitously

Even if that were true, just think of the impact an "issue ad" with the following scenario could have:

Doctor (stripping off his mask after performing an abortion): Alright nurse, clean up this mess.

Nurse: Yes, doctor. Oh...wait. Uh, doctor? ... the...uh...fetus is breathing!

Doctor: Take it away with the rest of this mess. Put it in the broom closet.

Nurse: Yes, doctor.

[Nurse is shown bundling the infant hastily and hurrying out of the operating room.]

[Next scene: A door opens and the viewer sees a pair of hands shove the bundle onto a shelf in a broom closet. The door closes with a click. There is silence for a moment... then the viewer hears a tiny cough, then a weak cry.]

[Fade to black.]

[LS]

In the first place, no one would run such an ad; in the second place, there would be MANY people so revulsed at the tastelessness that they probably would not vote "for" your candidate.

The fetus-in-jars people have done more harm to the pro-life movement than any 10 abortionists.

[Space Moose]

I am pro-life and I would absolutely reject any candidate who ran such an ad. But, we will never see such an ad.