The ad was released hours after Trump said that he believes abortion laws should be left to the states, sidestepping the national ban that some of his supporters want.
President Joe Bidenās campaign released its latestĀ abortion ad of the electionĀ hours after formerĀ President Donald Trump saidĀ he believes abortion laws should be left to the states, sidestepping the national ban that some of his supporters want.
The 60-second ad, which first aired Monday on MSNBC, focuses onĀ Amanda Zurawski, a Texas womanĀ who sued the stateĀ after, she said, she almost died from a miscarriage. In the video, Zurawski and her husband, Josh, discuss how they had started buying things for the baby while Amanda was pregnant, including a baby book.
āAt 18 weeks, Amandaās water broke,ā the adās text said. āShe had a miscarriage.ā
As the couple continued to recount memories of the pregnancy, text on the screen read, āBecause Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Amanda was denied standard medical care to prevent infection, an abortion.ā
Doctors were forced to send Amanda home and three days later, Amanda wound up in the ICU with sepsis, according to the ad.
This is almost the exact playbook that got Abortion unbanned in Ireland (which is heavily Catholic). The average American conservative when polled, is against elective abortions; but theyāre generally fine with abortions for medical reasons. And for 20 years the Pro-life crowd has garnered their support by claiming ānobody wants to force women to die in childbirthā. Now that thatās clearly a lie thatās the truth that needs to be pushed. And I believe it will be effective.
When you play games with healthcare, people die.
I know that, but that message hasnāt been well communicated to the average red voter (likely because of the surprise of the Roe v. Wade overturning).
People are largely against a type of abortion that is almost never used as birth control has gotten so effective. I donāt think the average person realizes that roughly half of all abortions have been for medical reasons and not been elective for a long time and that the total number of abortions have been trending downward for a long time.
Dems need to hammer that message home this election and hopefully ads like this are effective at doing it.
Yeah but this ad isnāt getting in front of conservatives on MSNBC. It needs to be on Fox and OAN.
Itās kind of gross to give them money, but yeah, probably.
Fox and OANN will run any ad that pays them.