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Second-term abortions at local surgery center leads group to purchase airtime
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Pro-Life Wisconsin launched the second part of its True to Life media campaign Monday by running anti-late-term abortion television ads throughout Madison.
“This aspect of the campaign is the next step in our efforts to come back after the killing of … unborn children, especially those children that will be killed during late-term abortions at Madison Surgical Clinic,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin.
The media campaign involves “beautiful” 30-second commercials which will run on three Madison network stations, according to Hamill. Nearly 100 commercials will be aired in a two-week period of time.
One commercial shows an ultrasound of a fetus approximately the same age as some babies aborted at Madison Surgery Center, Hamill said.
At the end of the commercial, the Pro-Life Wisconsin website, NoUWabortions.com, is listed. According to Himill, the website is a virtual hub for those who “want to exercise their right of consciousness to not be involved in the killing of pre-born children.”
Additionally, Hamill said a lot of anti-abortion supporters have agreed to boycott Meriter Hospital, University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation and UW Hospital and Clinics, which co-own the Madison Surgery Center that conducts late-term abortions.
The Center is managed by the UW Medical Foundation.
Shortly after Pro-Life Wisconsin’s initial campaign was revealed, Hamill said more than 20,000 signed a petition against the institutions conducting the abortions.
She added there are hundreds of patients who are changing their health insurance so they are no longer affiliated with the establishments.
UW Hospital spokesperson Lisa Brunette said though she has not seen the anti-abortion ads, Meriter Hospital, UW Medical Foundation and UW Hospital and Clinics have not been greatly impacted by the anti-abortion campaign.
“I think some people will make decisions based on [the abortion] procedure,” Brunette said. “But when people look at [the] really high ranking for patient quality and safety done at the surgery center, patients of UW hospital come here for care. … Health care is taken into account.”
Brunette added she has not seen a large number of people canceling hospital appointments and asking to change their insurance. She explained most insurance companies only permit people to change their insurance policies once a year, usually in October.
According to Hamill, “A civilized society understands that no individual has the right to intentionally take the life of another person.” She believes American life will become “barbaric” if abortion is allowed to continue.
However, Brunette said MSC began to perform abortions because several physicians felt the issue needed to be addressed.
She added doctors felt they had a responsibility to continue the work of local physicians who were no longer performing the procedures. Additionally, there are doctors, who, due to their personal beliefs, do not endorse the abortion procedures.
“It may be legal, but what’s legal does not necessarily mean what is morally right,” Hamill said. “Slavery in our society was once legal, but society realized those laws must be changed.”
The ads will run at least through April 6.
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I’m starting a campaign to stop “the wiping of asses with cheese graters.” Since I’m never going to do it, it’s easy to be fervently opposed to it. I also feel morally superior to those who do; a win-win situation (for me).
The website is wrong in the article… It’s supposed to be nouwabortions.com
I’m starting a campaign to stop everyone from killing and eating animals. Since I’m never going to do it, it’s easy to be fervently opposed to it. I also feel morally superior to those who do; a win-win situation (for me).
Oh wait, the left-wing is already hot on that campaign!
Fact is, why do liberals take such offense to people who have different viewpoints than them? Why do people like 7:32 have to be so obnoxious defending liberal politics?
7:32, in the words of Chubbs from Happy Gilmore, “You’re spoken like a true asshole!”
Why is it so hard to accept the fact that some are opposed to late term abortions for reasons other than themselves? Suggesting that someone else would feel morally superior without talking to anyone with that viewpoint might suggest the you, as a supporter of LTA’s, are in some way morally inferior. Attacking the character and motives of a person who disagrees with you makes a very strong case for your morals. You must be a poli sci major. Oops, now I’m down on your level.
“approximately” the same age…i mean, what’s the difference between a 16-week pregnancy and a 36-week pregnancy, really?
HEY 7:32, It’s my ass and the hospital’s cheese grater, how bout you and the government stay out of my god damn ass.
“Additionally, Hamill said a lot of anti-abortion supporters have agreed to boycott Meriter Hospital, University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation and UW Hospital and Clinics, which co-own the Madison Surgery Center that conducts late-term abortions.”
Maybe they’ll find that going to church and praying is just as effective as science.
“I’m starting a campaign to stop “the wiping of asses with cheese graters.” Since I’m never going to do it, it’s easy to be fervently opposed to it. I also feel morally superior to those who do; a win-win situation (for me).” <—-Idiot
I am glad to see that the cold war against abortion is still moving forward. I don’t fully agree with those stepping over the line and getting arrested is the answer, but I do understand that is some people way of making a point. Medical doctors don’t like to be told they are hold a killing gun to an inocent victims head but that is what some are doing. Thou shalt not kill means thou shall not kill. I was a life guard for about 40 hours a week as I went to high school. A life guard saves lives he does not take them, the development of life saving approaches and tools still needs to move forward as well.
Hey Randy Hanson. WHAT!?!?
“She added there are hundreds of patients who are changing their health insurance so they are no longer affiliated with the establishments.”
If people want to boycott an organization because of a service they perform that the person themselves would never partake of, and in the same action forgo top notch medical care, I see it as another way to control the population seeing as a species we are overrunning the planet and it’s resources.
Well I agree with 7:32, even if nobody else does.
And Randy… what? Why would a lifeguard kill someone…? You really make no sense.
“She added there are hundreds of patients who are changing their health insurance so they are no longer affiliated with the establishments.”
I’ll bet there are maybe 100. Tops.
I have two family members who were adopted, their young mothers (one 14 year old and one 16 year girl) chose life, made a sacrfice of not just nine months of their own life, to carry and bring my aunt and uncle into this world, but living with the knowledge that some one would be raising their son, their daughter. What a courageous act. These days abortion is so readily availible, I have to wonder if my aunt and uncle would have ever been born? If those girls might have chosen abortion. And my aunt and uncle, they are really great people with lives and families of their own. They and their children and their children’s children would not have existed. Sometimes it isn’t about feeling morally superior. Sometimes maybe it is about more than just what I FEEL or what you FEEL.
RE: “Since I’m never going to do it, it’s easy to be fervently opposed to it. I also feel morally superior to those who do; a win-win situation (for me)”
If our ancestors felt this way, slavery would still be legal. This attitude of “you’re ok, I’m ok” is great with lots of individual choices we make, but sometimes what a person chooses is NOT ok. Like slavery. Or child abuse. (yes, I believe abortion to be the ultimate act of child abuse) What I choose can change the course of many lives, not just my own.
“It may be legal, but what’s legal does not necessarily mean what is morally right,” Hamill said. “Slavery in our society was once legal, but society realized those laws must be changed.”
“I have two family members who were adopted, their young mothers (one 14 year old and one 16 year girl)…)
It is easy to say now what you would have missed out on, but if the girls had choosen abortion, you would have never known because your aunt & uncle would not have existed. They could have just as easily turned out to be vicious serial killers, no one knows ahead of time what kind of person is being aborted. Besides that, abortion is nothing new, it has been around for centuries, just more refined now a days.