January 31st 2010
Letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Marie Alena Castle
[I sent this to the Strib, which will, of course, not print it.]
Your Jan. 30 Letter of the Day wondered why prochoice groups would complain about a Super Bowl ad featuring a woman who chose not to have an abortion. As long as abortion is a legal medical procedure, women will always make whatever decision is best in their circumstances. They don’t need an ad to tell them what to do and that is not the ad’s purpose. The purpose is to persuade citizens that abortions are never justified and so should be made illegal. Just to balance things, perhaps the prochoice groups could run an ad featuring some of the tragic outcomes of a pregnancy misguidedly brought to term.
2 Comments »
Tommy on 05 Apr 2010 at 01:11pm #
To assume that a television advertisement would impact a decision of this magnitude is a great insult to the human race.
Parabola on 09 Apr 2010 at 01:34pm #
I couldn’t agree more. Public Relations is a monster that is loose and wreaking havoc wherever it goes.