The Columbus Dispatch: Abortion-Rights Group Attacking McCain
October 22, 2008
October 22, 2008
A new nonprofit organization affiliated with the National Institute for Reproductive Health will start running television ads in Ohio and six other states against Sen. John McCain for opposing abortion rights for women.
The Winning Message Action Fund says the ad focuses on what would happen if the Republican presidential candate was successful in getting abortion outlawed.
"John McCain and Sarah Palin want to overturn Roe vs. Wade which protects a woman's right to choose," the narrator says. "If that happens, 21states will immediately move to make abortion a crime...and women will be treated like criminals."
The spot shows several tearful and shaken women having their mug shot taken as if they had been arrested, then the narrator asks, "What would John McCain do then?"
Kelli Conlin, president of the Winning Message Action Fund, said the ad aims to move the debate beyond the candidates' positions for or against abortion.
Kelli Conlin, president of the Winning Message Action Fund, said the ad aims to move the debate beyond the candidates' positions for or against abortion.
"This message recalibrates what's at stake," she said.
Conlin said the ad will air in Ohio and five other so-called swing states where the presidential candidates are in a neck-in-neck race - Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It also will run in South Dakota where a abortion ban will appear on the ballot.
Conlin said the ad will air in Ohio and five other so-called swing states where the presidential candidates are in a neck-in-neck race - Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It also will run in South Dakota where a abortion ban will appear on the ballot.
