CO Obamacare Ads: Sleazy, Bizarre, and Just Plain Dumb

As the trouble-plagued Obamacare rollout continues, Colorado’s health exchange is getting some bad press for a bizarre ad campaign it has been running encouraging young people to sign up for health insurance.

The ads run the gambit from sleazy to bizarre to just plain dumb.

Sleazy. Several of the ads promote “free” birth control by featuring young women with sleazy-looking guys or cardboard cutouts of actor Ryan Gosling. With captions like “let’s get physical,” the ads are so ridiculous a number of people initially thought they were parodies sponsored by Tea Party conservatives. They aren’t. They are actual ads someone in Colorado actually thought would get young adults to buy health insurance through the state exchange.

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Pro-life Leaders Urge Sen. Mark Pryor to Protect Unborn Babies

The following is a press release from Family Council and Susan B. Anthony List.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 18, 2013

Contact: Mallory Quigley, SBA List: 202-223-8073
Jerry Cox, Family Council: 501-375-7000

Washington, D.C – Pro-life leaders from the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) and Arkansas Family Council are calling on Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) to co-sponsor the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1670) introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The bill already has 39 cosponsors, including Senator John Boozman (R-AR), and would protect babies beginning at 20 weeks, or more than halfway through pregnancy. The pro-life groups will be mobilizing their members this week to call and email Senator Pryor asking him to co-sponsor the bill. In 2003, Senator Pryor voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

“Arkansans deserve to know where Senator Pryor stands when it comes to protecting unborn children and their mothers from the painful death of abortion more than halfway through pregnancy,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “We urge him to respect life and to respect the pro-life people of Arkansas by supporting this compassionate legislation. The majority of Americans are opposed to brutal, late abortion – and women support this bill in even higher numbers than men. Senator Pryor should do the right thing and protect the weak and vulnerable from pain. It’s one of the most human things we can do.”

“Arkansans have already made their position very clear on this issue,” said Jerry Cox, President of Arkansas Family Council. “The Arkansas Legislature passed a bill protecting unborn children capable of feeling pain earlier this year. We had top medical experts travel to Arkansas to explain the science behind fetal-pain. But this issue is too important to be left for individual states to decide. Unborn children and their mothers shouldn’t be victims of painful, late abortions simply because they don’t live in a state like Arkansas. Most Americans support this type of legislation. I hope Senator Pryor will too. I’ve known Senator Pryor a long time. He has often said he is pro-life, and this is an opportunity for him to demonstrate that to his constituents back home.”

There is great consensus nationwide on this issue, especially in the aftermath of Kermit Gosnell and the exposure of other abortion clinic horrors. Recent national polling by Quinnipiac, National Journal, Huffington Post, NBC/Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post/ABC News all found that a plurality or majority of Americans support limiting abortion after 20 weeks gestation and that women support the measure in higher proportions than men.

The Susan B. Anthony List, is dedicated to pursuing policies and electing candidates who will reduce and ultimately end abortion. To that end, the SBA List emphasizes the education, promotion, mobilization, and election of pro-life women.  The SBA List is a network of more than 365,000 pro-life Americans nationwide.

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Senator Boozman Co-Sponsors Pro-Life Bill in U.S. Senate

Arkansas Senator John Boozman signed on last week as a co-sponsor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

This is a federal proposal that tracks closely with Act 171, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Andy Mayberry and passed by the Arkansas Legislature earlier this year.

Legislation like this just commonsense. According to medical experts, by the 20th week of pregnancy, an unborn child is capable of feeling pain–and abortion is a very painful process. The risk of a woman suffering medical complications from abortion is also significantly higher by the 20th week of pregnancy and continues go up from there. With this in mind, prohibiting abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy is a sensible thing to do–and it could save the lives of as many as 18,000 unborn babies each year.

You can read the full language of the federal Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act here.

If you would like to thank Senator Boozman for co-sponsoring the act, click here.