NBC Refuses to Air Pro-Life Ad During Super Bowl

UPDATE: According to MSNBC’s blog, NBC has also rejected PETA’s ad. I still don’t see why they can’t air the pro-life ad.

Original Post:Catholic Culture is reporting that NBC has refused to air a Pro-Life ad that depicts an ultrasound of a baby and tells of the challenges that were against President Obama when he was born.

Network executives explained that their standards bar advertisements involving “political advocacy or issues.” But Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, the group that produced the ad, noted that NBC has accepted an ad from People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, another advocacy group.

Powerful Pro-Life Ad to Air during Inauguration

CatholicVote.com is going to air a powerful new ad during the Inauguration today on BET which reminds everyone of the difficult life that Obama was born into. It also reminds everyone of how pro-abortion Obama is.

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.”

Pro-Life and Pro-Obama?

Grant Swank has some great points when he tells about some conversations he had with a black minister friend who had led his life as an evangelical Christian, but in the months leading up to the election, his support for Obama caused Swank to question his friend’s stance. I will say that although I agree with most of what he says, I think it is unnecessary to refer to Obama as “B. Hussein”. This is a tactic that is clearly meant as a way to play on people’s biases against Muslims and Arabs. Swank would still have plenty of ammo to work with in this article without having to resort to basically a form of name-calling. It’s just silly and immature. Still, I agree with the point of his article.

Abortion is murder.

Homosexual practice is abhorrent to the biblical God.

Both can never fit with the scriptural ethic. Never. Therefore, I cannot ever reason that it is legitimate for a person to testify to being a biblical Christian while at the same time openly confirming abortion and sodomy as acceptable.

There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.

But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person’s body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body’s life to continue.

The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.

“Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk … and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit” (Job 10:8-12 NIV).

“Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name…and now the LORD says — he who formed me in the womb to be his servant…” (Isaiah 49:1, 5).