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Obama touts abortion support in online election campaign ads

This week the Obama campaign has been running web ads declaring its support for abortion under the euphemism of “choice.” Below is a screenshot of the ad we observed.

The ad directs visitors to the following email collection webpage at barackobama.com:

Notice the campaign rhetoric of “right to choose” and “choice” that conveniently leaves out the unsavory a-word, abortion.

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  • http://stopthecap.ca Alex Perrier

    That’s gross!  People would be more inclined to vote for Obama if he were pro-life or even “neutral”.  As it stands, however, he’s obsessed with abortion.  According to him, everyone has to pay for them.  The truth is, it’s UNFAIR that virgins, abstinent people and prenatal life lovers are forced to pay for this deadly agenda despite having no need for abortion or hating this evil.  The big problem with “ObamaCare” is that it gives people permission to have carefree sex while under the illusion that it is a healthy practice.  That’s not true!  Unplanned pregnancy, abortions and non-curable STDs all happen, even to those who practice “safe” sex!

    i really want to see a pro-life president win the 2012 race.  Bush wasn’t perfect, but he signed many pro-life laws which saved many babies.  Obama is just awful and disrespectful when it comes to prenatal life.  As it stands, the most likely possibility of having a pro-life president is Mitt Romney.  To win, he MUST prove to men and especially women that he IS the ideal president compared to Obama.  NO MORE of this ObamaCare huge debt risk and this abortion circus!

  • FB123

    Women’s rights?  Who in modern America is against women?  It seems that every person that I know is a feminist, even I am to a certain extent.  Feminism does not mean abortion.  Pro-choicers (pro-aborts) claim to fight for women’s rights.  I wonder what the originators of the feminist movement would think of where it has gone. They were fighting for equality with men.  We’ve gotten it.  Why do they want more?  The right to end their pregancy by ending the life of their child?  Isn’t abortion against women?  It goes against our maternal instinct, something that all women have.  In nature, aren’t mothers willing to give up their lives to save the lives of their children?  A child, even an unintended one, is a blessing, one that requires much work, but still a beautiful thing. And here we are, ending their lives for mere convenience in most cases.  I’m not saying that women who get abortions are evil, they make a very difficult decision (and mistake), but they most certainly make a self-centered one.

    Abortion may get one out of a “problem” for a short time, but it is a crime against our very female natures.  I can only pray that we women realize what is best for ourselves and our children…

    • Oedipa

      “Women’s rights?  Who in modern America is against women?”

      Uhh, people who would oppose something like the Equal Pay Act, which just about every Republican in congress voted against. And Romney has been wishy-washy on it, like just about everything else he moves his mouth about. Or the Violence Against Women act, which also has unbelievably strong Republican opposition. I won’t go into the contraception angle, because that would be unpersuasive around here. Just know that it’s very, very persuasive in some corners of the electorate.

      • FB123

        May I have statistics please?  Because, in my experience, modern Americans are not against women, or at least it’s only a very small minority.

        • http://twitter.com/Astraspider Mr. Spider

          You and I may be talking apples and oranges, because while “modern Americans” may not be against women, there are policy positions that keep getting takenup  by men in state legislatures and in congress that are explicitly against womens’ interests. You want those statistics? All but 3 republicans voted against the Fair Pay Act. They’re poised to shoot down renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, again along party lines. All republicans but Olympia Snow voted for the Blunt amendement, which would have given womens’ employers the final say say on whether their contraceptives would be covered by insurance. Those policy positions are “against women” and can’t be spun any other way. I could drill down state-by-state, but that would be tedious.

          You are right to assert that “modern Americans” (ie: the populace) don’t by-and-large agree with those positions, yet for some reason the troglodytes in the GOP feel like they can get away with it.

      • FB123

        Wait one minute, are you referring to the Equal Pay Act of 1963?  What does public opinion in the 60s have anything to do with general Republican sentiment nowadays? 
         
        And no, I’m not trying to defend Republicans, I don’t belong to any political party.

        • http://twitter.com/Astraspider Mr. Spider

          No, that should have been the “Fair Pay Act”, the Lily Ledbetter legislation. Really, anyone who’s up on politics at all should have known what I meant.

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  • davenisbet87

    Is abortion “birth control” now? Guess if they called it what it really is, “population control”, there’d be riots…

  • Oedipa

    I’m shocked! Shocked! That a campaign would use pleasing sounding words, strung together, in an effort to get re-elected!

    • FB123

      We’re not saying that we’re shocked.  The article is only pointing out that Obama is hiding his pro-abortion motives by focusing on the “fact” that this is a “war on women.”

      • Troll warrior

        Romney has more respect for women, than Obama does. I’m not buying this phony war on women BS.

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  • E.J.

    The “REAL WAR ON WOMEN”……….Islam!!!!

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