This is just awful and so full of lies that I’m almost stunned by it.
The gist of this is that little girls dreams will die unless you pay for their birth control.
I always get a chill of revulsion up my spine when I see an ad that touts abortion rights while playing soft music and showing slow motion video of children. Kinda’ freaks me out.
As Katie Pavlich of Townhall writes:
There are many problems with this ad.
The first: The use of contraception is not controversial, forcing others, including religious institutions morally opposed to contraception, to cover and pay for contraception, is.
The second: Contraception is readily available at an inexpensive price pretty much everywhere.
The third: Have we really gotten to the point in America where young girls can only fullfil their dreams if someone else pays for their birth control? No, not even close. In fact, Forbes just named their 100 most powerful celebrities in the world. Four out of the top five celebrities were women and seven out of the top ten were women. Taxpayers weren’t paying for their birth control through a govenment mandate along their way to the top.
The fourth: The woman narrating the ad says, “We need a president who will stand up for women’s health and stay focused on jobs and the economy.” Let me remind readers that it was President Obama who decided to make birth control a “controversial” issue and a distraction from his horrific economic record when his ally Nancy Pelosi tapped 30-year-old reproductive activist Sandra Fluke of Georgetown University to testify/complain before a congressional committee about paying $3000 a year for birth control.
May 31, 2012 at 5:49 pm
This is the most nauseating ad I have heard from any political arena. Not only that, I am so offended that they think that today's woman and daughters can't realize their dreams without the government intervening with free birth control for us. It is the most insulting and degrading ad I have heard, and I've heard a lot of them. A real Mother teaches her daughters abstinence because she wants them to have their dignity and self-respect. I'm sure that the liberals who came up with this think it will sell Obama's plan, but hopefully every woman who hears this load of crap will see through it and be offended by their insinuations that we need their free birth control so we can realize our dreams. Excuse me, I have to go throw up.
June 2, 2012 at 8:20 pm
I have SO many problems with this ad that I don't even know where to begin. The article is spot on! Some thoughts:
1) Let's be honest, BC has very little to do with health and much more to do with people having sex without consequences.
2) Who said a woman who has children is unable to accomplish their dreams? I take sincere offense to this idea. My children have helped me to accomplish dreams I never even knew I had. 🙂
3) Maybe we should be teaching our daughters that actions have consequences and having premarital sex is not a good idea and WHY it should be an act reserved for a woman and her husband… (or do we think our girls are too stupid to understand truth?)
4) If the older daughter in the ad, Caroline, is so committed to her goal of becoming a pilot maybe she should not engage in behaviors that may possibly make her dreams harder to fulfill.
5) BC may be "medication" but it actually has been proven to harm women's health. There is a strong connection between BC and breast cancer, as well as cysts and various other medical problems. Not to mention the fact that it can cause an abortion by not allowing the new baby in the womb to attach to the uterine lining.
6) Just because something is "common" does not in any way mean that it is good or MORAL. Wasn't owning slaves a "common" occurence at one time?
7) No one is saying that women should be denied BC. If you want to put harmful amounts of hormones into your body on a monthly basis — by all means, you have the right. Just don't ask me, someone who is morally opposed to this "medication", to pay for it.
8) Women should have the right to take care of their bodies the way they deem best — but when it comes to another person, (ie baby in the womb) a woman's rights don't automatically trump the baby's. The right to life is essential to all humans regardless of how old or capable they are.
9) I think most importantly this woman's concerns (or our current President's concerns) are completely out of sync with reality, logic and basic human morality. She should be more worried about the overt entitlement ideology of our youth and blatant oversexualization of our children. The health and dreams of our daughters are not at stake because many American citizens don't want to be forced to pay for their BC. That is a ridiculous statement and one that everyone should be appalled by. The health and dreams of our daughters (and sons) are at stake because many people won't stand up and teach them the truth. They don't need someone to pay for their contraceptives. They need someone to teach them to work hard, remain pure, search for truth and stand up for what's right.
But that's just my opinion…
June 8, 2012 at 4:52 pm
"…the dreams of our daughters are at stake?" This woman is either insane or evil. I suppose she could be both. To her, I say, if she actually believes in what she is broadcasting, she can fulfill her own dreams of a brainwashed Death Culture while the rest of us create generations of Pro-Lifers.