Three television networks have refused to air an ad from a leading pro-life group, describing it as “controversial” and “unacceptable,” according to a new report.
The Daily Wire reported Tuesday that CBS, CMT and the Hallmark Channel refused to air a 30-second advertisement from the Susan B. Anthony List that was first released last week. The ad is part of the pro-life group’s $2 million campaign “highlighting the humanity of unborn children as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a landmark abortion case.”
The ad campaign follows the announcement that the Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the state of Mississippi, which is seeking to reverse a lower court decision invalidating the state’s 15-week abortion ban. A ruling in favor of that state would weaken the central finding of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which found that a woman has the right to obtain an abortion.
The narrator in the ad notes that after “five decades of medical breakthroughs, every age group has more opportunity to live except one: the unborn.” Explaining that unborn babies “still fall victim to outdated laws,” the ad notes that “science tells us that at 15 weeks, these babies have formed faces, they smile, they yawn [and] they feel pain.”
“It’s why European countries ban late-term abortions,” the ad continues. “In five decades, we have learned they are just like us. Isn’t it time the law reflects the science?” The ad concludes with a picture of the Supreme Court building and a link to the Susan B. Anthony List’s website.
In an email to SBA List, a CBS official explained that “Issue-oriented advertisements that are designed for the purpose of presenting views or influencing legislation on issues that are controversial by general public consensus are unacceptable.”
An official with CMT offered a nearly identical response in a separate email to the pro-life group: “While we do accept political and issue-based ads on a case-by-case basis, issue-based ads that are designed for the purpose of presenting views or influencing legislation on issues that are controversial by general public consensus are unacceptable.” Both CBS and CMT are owned by Viacom.
In a statement announcing the $2 million ad campaign, Susan B. Anthony List indicated that the 30-second spot “will air on national cable, including on Lifetime, Hallmark, and Bravo networks, as well as select streaming services, and in the Washington, D.C. media market on top news stations.” However, Hallmark ultimately rejected the ad because, as The Daily Wire reported, “it does not meet the Hallmark Channel’s criteria for the positive experience Hallmark aims to offer viewers.”
Full story at Christian Post.
do not tv networks receive operating
license from govt ??
where is fair & square govt regulators?
oh ….. i thought so.
brilliant ad work!
Abortion is about emotions, not science. The Pro-Life side has All the science on it’s side, yet women still abort and the networks know beautiful Pro-Life ads can and do change minds.
How many [major] networks ran the programming?
And, yet, Hallmark, you have no problems with gay weddings. Another reason not to watch you, along with being allergic to schlock.
It was a great ad except for the last line. “They are just like us.” They are us. What they are now we used to be.
Yes, Anonymous, you are right. “They are us.” Exactly what we once were, when God first created us. Good TV ad, though– I saw it online. These networks are all very, very shameful. Worse– they no longer uphold any Codes of Ethics nor moral decency, since the filthy Godless 1960s “hippie era.” They all sold their souls to the Devil, shamefully– for money! And they will tell you that, honestly, if you ask. Supporting sinful and dangerous “hippie filth” draws $$$ millions into their bank accounts– and they are highly pressured by the extremely immoral, lawless, Godless, selfish “Me-Generation,” now in power. The churches all gave up and sold their souls to the Devil too, no longer faithful to Christ. “Freedom to do as you please,” and “pleasing everyone,” brings in financial support to the churches, too. Faithless, Godless churches.
Private companies can decide what to accept and what not to.
If Traditional Marriage, and the blessings of children, and the cultivation of good, loving, morally-decent family homes are no longer cherished and supported in a country– it will fall apart and disintegrate. The American Baby should be a cause for joy, in our country. The horrific, filthy sins of Promiscuity and Abortion should be unthinkable. Motherhood is beautiful and holy, and Fatherhood is to be cherished and revered! The family home is where the heart should always long to be– safe, warm, and loved. And morally very, very good. Bedtime prayers, grace at meals, church on Sunday, the love of God– and lots of joy and laughter, with many fond memories– binding hearts together, forever, through all things, in good times and bad.
I am always complaining to the public library, because they have no Code of Ethics, since the 1960s, and no morals. A danger to every American home, family, and community! All the American Library Association upholds, since the filthy “hippie 1960s era”– is the ignorant, popular “hippie” version of “human rights!” Last week, I complained about their advertised showing of a pornographic “gay” film, and filthy “gay” books in the children’s section. I said, “the gays should be decent people, and should not view filthy pornography, nor shoild you!– And you should never expose children to the dangerous evils of the “gay lifestyle” in your children’s books! That is terrible!” This week, I complained about “gay cartoons” to be shown to children– and an SF State English professor who is a lesbian stripper, in a part-time “job,” and wrote a filthy book about “your rights” as a stripper, and formed a filthy group to support this! She is scheduled to give a lecture to kids at the library on this subject, and recruit youngsters to her filthy and dangerous “job!” The librarians are always nice, and I only complain to the ones who agree with me– and they have me fill out anonymous complaint forms, which they turn in. I also make complaints to the City Librarian– but he does not agree with me. So I do not want a useless fight with him– and just go once in awhile, to tell him how terrible all of his “smut” is– and to please think about cleaning it up! That’s all I can do. Then I leave peacefully. A library should never become a filthy “dirty bookstore!” But that’s exactly what the ALA (American Library Association) is running, nationwide!
According to our government we don’t have mothers anymore. We have birthing persons.
I have had to turn off the TV a number of times, while preparing dinner, because of
offensive ads promoting such things as women’s feminine products, birth control, and men’s “virility” products. Plus, I cannot stand the terribly unprofessional, immature, babyish 1960s “hippie-liberal” reporters, championing their sick, liberal causes– instead of objective, full-grown-adult, professional news reporting, always respecting and upholding our Nation, with a Code of Ethics, abiding by good moral standards, upholding and respecting the American family home!! It is a horror, the broadcasts of the filthy, extremely immoral annual “Gay Parade,” and also, extremely immature newscasters boldly promoting legalization news of marijuana and drugs, news of kids with “successful,” lucrative dope operations, and where kids can buy their horrific, life-destroying, morality-destroying drugs.
Most interesting – if I were a betting man, I would say the average age of all the commenters is like above 50 years of age, Catholics who were raised in the church, secure in their faith and its precepts of a two-parent home, virginity until marriage, and the firm belief that if only we went back to those days all would be well, moral, acceptable to God because it is acceptable to your worldview.
However, the world is vastly populated by too many who were not raised in a two parent home, or had enough to eat, etc. It’s easy to blame the “hippie generation”, as they are now the retirees. Has not every generation in its own fashion wreak havoc on the world that their parents’ enjoyed? But the world no longer bows to a single church leadership, and yes, the social ethics has swung very far, and perhaps has begun its swing back to center.
Are you saying here that actual porn was sanctioned, shown and viewed? Or was it because gays were depicted and anything they do is perverse? Did a gay couple kiss, and that to you is porn? Traditional marriage? Is that further defined as homogenous (meaning no interracial couples?) How about marrying a non-Catholic – is that okay or do you believe that cause to shame those who do so choose.
That’s what it comes down to – choosing to follow who we truly are… SO much fear, anger and event a fair amount of very unChrist-like yet very self-righteous hate so many on this site elucidate. Let’s go back to the “good old days” when shame and blame were norms, that wonderful hypocrisy when a young underaged girl says she’s pregnant because her boyfriend raped her, and if he marries her, suddenly the sin disappears, even though she was likely forced into a marriage that will fail, or result in abuse.
So instead of blame, try compassion. Try voiding out the “love the sinner, hate the sin” paradigm, because humans by and large cannot discern that they still show hatred masked as religious fervor, and those hearing it still take it as ill will toward them. Are you fearful that somehow you will be forced to marry, or divorce, or have an abortion, or stop going to church, or what? You have choices, and the power to choose, and too often, that power is okay for you but scares you that others might exercise it in a way that you feels is threatening. Well, go prayer on it then.
Dremel, in your quest to be compassionate, you allow for all kinds of mortal sins that send people to hell. Better to promote the ideal rather than the sinful.
Mike, you need to become a committed Catholic, and learn your Catholic Faith and Morals well– and stand staunchly for Christ, for what is truly right in life. It is terribly ignorant and babyish not to do so! Morality and responsibility is not a “fad” of any generation or historical era. Morality, responsibility, and hard work–and responsibility to God– are the most important things in life.
Look at young Shawn Carney and his wife, Marilisa, a fine, young devout Catholic married couple, now with 8 children, running 40 Days for Life in Tyler, Texas. Saving lives of unborn children, fighting against Abortion. They valiantly rescued young Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood director there, and she and her husband (they have 8 kids, too) have become gigantic Pro-Life leaders, and fine Catholics, all working for Christ. We all are called to work for Christ and reform our badly-fallen Nation! Christ needs you, Mike, so please answer His call to help Him build His Kingdom.
I remember a very different Texas, where some of my relatives oncr lived– long before the time of Shawn Carney and Abby Johnson. Where the Southern Baptists and Methodists were very strong, as well as Catholics, before Vatican II. They had the Blue Laws, some counties were dry (no liquor) and everything was closed on Sundays. Abortion did not exist– a horror! Birth control was forbidden by Catholics and Protestants viewed it as “naughty”– or even sinful. You didn’t ever use bad language, or talk about sex, that was wrong– and still is! Your Mother was very respected, too! There was much more respect for women! We women wore pretty dresses most of the time, pretty mantillas to Mass, and there was tremendous respect for God, for Christianity and Christian Morality, and for our country. Famiily life and traditions were strong, there was plenty of opportunity for all, with most families decently fed, housed, and clothed, and church charities for the poor. There was a much nicer, more relaxed lifestyle, and most people were much happier! The only bad thing was the need to get rid of the sin of racism– which Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and JFK, and Pres. Johnson tried to do.
Sorry–in my post of June 8 at 4:06pm– I meant to say, 40 Days for Life in Bryan, Texas!
Mike,
I am concerned about the suicidal tendencies that have gripped Western Culture. If you truly have compassion about others, you will be worried about this as well.
Mike,
I also might add — You talk of compassion, but you don’t seem to care enough about people to learn about history and the lessons that it teaches.