New pro-life ad depicting Obama as unborn child to run during Inauguration

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Chicago, Ill., Jan 20, 2009 / 05:24 am (CNA).- A new pro-life ad that depicts an unborn child who grows up to become President-elect Barack Obama will air repeatedly in Chicago during Black Entertainment Television’s coverage of the president-elect’s inauguration.

The 30-second spot is the first in a planned series of an education advertisement campaign titled “Life: Imagine the Potential.”

The ad displays an ultrasound of a baby and says “This child’s future is a broken home.” The ad says the unborn boy will be abandoned by his father and his single mother will struggle to raise him.

Despite the hardships, the ad continues, this child will become the first African-American president.

The ad then cuts to a picture of President-elect Obama.

“Life: Imagine the Potential,” the ad concludes.

The ad was produced by CatholicVote.org, a site which launched last September to educate and inspire Catholic voters.

Brian Burch, Executive Director of CatholicVote.org, explained the motivations for the advertisement in a Monday press release.

“Our message is simple: Abortion is the enemy of hope. The purpose of our new ad is to spread a message of hope about the potential of every human life, including the life of President-elect Obama,” Burch said.

“Many Catholics and pro-life Americans recognize that Barack Obama steadfastly supports abortion. And while we'll pray for his conversion, that doesn't diminish an essential truth: that each human life has dignity and worth,” he continued.

“Given the political climate, we acknowledge that the fight to protect human life faces an uphill climb. For this reason, we developed an ad that we hope can transcend the political obstacles ahead, and provoke the consciences of our leaders and fellow Americans.”

CNA contacted CatholicVote.org for further comment but received no reply by publication time.

The ad may be viewed at http://www.catholicvote.com/

Other pro-life reactions to President-elect Obama’s inaugural include a planned protest on the north side of Pennsylvania Ave. near the Canadian embassy.

Protesters plan to hold three large banners stating “President Obama social justice and human rights begin in the womb" and "53,000,000 children have died through abortion...President Obama stop the violence.”

Their banners will also quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Comments: 14

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Published by: The White Rose
Frederick, MD 01/26/2009 09:46 AM EST

I pray that there will be funding and the opportunity for this ad to be shown during the Super Bowl when the whole world is watching. Abortion will now be sponsored world wide with American tax dollars against the will of many of us as a result of an Obama executive order. It would be helpful to counterbalance that order with this ad sponsored with freely given dollars. I don't know if there is time or inclination to do this, but I pray that it will happen.

Published by: Sondra Kay Rhoades
Dublin, OH 01/22/2009 05:28 PM EST

This should be sent to every state senator and the President. We have to stop this mass abortion that USA deems A-OK.

Published by: Fred
Pineville, LA 01/21/2009 08:27 PM EST

Well said Santa Fe Dan

Published by: Peggy Orr
North Platte, NE, USA 01/21/2009 03:43 PM EST

This video meshes incredibly with the letter to the editor that I sent before viewing it.
Dear Editor, We now have the nation's first black president whom many media commentators are promoting as a "healer" and comparing him to President Lincoln. I can see from interviews that there is great pride in this accomplishment. But I see a president who is radically pro-abortion. Why, he even proposes to kill his own grandchild in case one of his daughters makes a "mistake". A parallel can also be drawn between slavery and abortion, calling abortion a "civil war" against preborn children. I want to remind black people that TRUE HEALING will not come unto you stop killing your preborn children. Compared to white women three times as many black women chose to abort. Umlike Margaret Sanger, the foundress of Planned Parenthood who was a racist and eugenicist, I believe each of these preborn children has great worth, and that abortion does irreparable harm to the mother. It doesn't matter if abortion is legal or not--each of you as individuals can choose not to do it and begin to heal us and our nation.

Published by: Ethel
Bismarck, North Dakota 01/20/2009 08:35 PM EST

Sounds great but when I tried it it said this film has been removed ..Wonder how it could have offended anyone??

Published by: Diane
Oak Park, IL 01/20/2009 07:06 PM EST

"You were once a zygot, too,
That could have become no one, but YOU!"

God bless

Published by: Rosemarie
San Antonio, Texas USA 01/20/2009 02:54 PM EST

This is a powerful video. May it speak to many minds and hearts. The new President said as a last line in part of his address: "a parent nuturing a child - determines our fate." What is our fate if we kill the little one before it has a chance to take its first breath on its own? Mary Immaculate, loving Mother, pray for your needy America.

Published by: Boyd
Moncton, NB., Canada 01/20/2009 01:46 PM EST

How appropriate, and how timely.
We pray that President Obama will stop the killing of the:"yet to be born"!

Published by: Vince
Jacksonville, FL 01/20/2009 01:27 PM EST

Interesting idea, but I doubt it will work. Abortion is seen as birth control, and until people realize the brutality of the procedure not much will change. President Obama will be the most extreme Pro-Choice leader of all time and millions of babies will be murdered on his watch.

But, if this ad convinces one mother not to rip her child's head off then it's worth it.

Published by: Kendall
Des Moines, Iowa 01/20/2009 12:56 PM EST

I think this ad should be run on national TV channels. It is extremely powerful and has the potential to influence pro "choice" individuals into changing their stance on this issue.

Published by: Kenneth Larsen
Seattle, WA 01/20/2009 12:14 PM EST

I am attending the Washington State March for Life today, inauguration day. I hope this message gets through to the people of the U.S. Has God created this unusual circumstance to happen?

Published by: Jamika
England 01/20/2009 10:37 AM EST

Excellent video. The music, the imagery, the message..

Published by: One Dove
USA 01/20/2009 07:52 AM EST

Yes, imagine the potential: A black man growing up under less than ideal circumstances, finally becoming President of the United States, only to exhibit an utter disregard for the lives of others. He and everyone who voted for him ought to be hanging their heads in shame right now, but instead, one sees an attitude of defiant arrogance.

Pride comes before a fall.

Published by: Dan
Santa Fe/NM/US 01/20/2009 07:49 AM EST

This ad and other efforts that will follow by this group and others are the ways to effectively present the pro-life message for the era starting today. It is positive and clear. We show our unwavering support for President Obama as a human being and our hope for 'change' in the new administrations policy toward the unborn.

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