Bold New Ad Campaign Exposes Threats Against Abortion Providers
Bold New Ad Campaign Exposes Threats Against Abortion Providers
The Feminist Majority Foundation launched an ad campaign today that exposes the threats facing abortion providers across the country and asks the question, “When did the right to life become the right to terrorize abortion providers?”
The FMF’s ads are currently running on the front pages of Politico and in some subscribers’ copies of The Washington Post. Its goal is to get the House Select Investigative Panel of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which was formed to investigate Planned Parenthood and other reproductive healthcare providers, to either redirect its focus to look into violence against abortion providers, or disband.
“How can House members investigate abortion providers and ignore the activities of key CMP official and Operation Rescue president Troy Newman, or the routine harassment and intimidation of abortion providers?” asked Eleanor Smeal, FMF president, in a statement.
Readers who click on the FMF ads will be directed to information about the extent of anti-abortion violence in the United States, for example, the fact that more than half of the abortion providers surveyed for the 2014 National Clinic Violence Survey report being the target of threats and intimidation.
Abortion providers were also the targets of more than 300 acts of extreme violence from 1973 to 2003, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. And from 1977 to 2014, the National Abortion Federation documented some 6,948 incidences of violence against abortion providers.
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