The ad was released hours after Trump said that he believes abortion laws should be left to the states, sidestepping the national ban that some of his supporters want.

The ad was released hours after Trump said that he believes abortion laws should be left to the states, sidestepping the national ban that some of his supporters want.

President Joe Biden’s campaign released its latest abortion ad of the election hours after former President Donald Trump said he believes abortion laws should be left to the states, sidestepping the national ban that some of his supporters want.

The 60-second ad, which first aired Monday on MSNBC, focuses on Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who sued the state after, she said, she almost died from a miscarriage. In the video, Zurawski and her husband, Josh, discuss how they had started buying things for the baby while Amanda was pregnant, including a baby book.

“At 18 weeks, Amanda’s water broke,” the ad’s text said. “She had a miscarriage.”

As the couple continued to recount memories of the pregnancy, text on the screen read, “Because Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Amanda was denied standard medical care to prevent infection, an abortion.”

Doctors were forced to send Amanda home and three days later, Amanda wound up in the ICU with sepsis, according to the ad.

  • mwguy@infosec.pub
    38·
    9 months ago

    This is almost the exact playbook that got Abortion unbanned in Ireland (which is heavily Catholic). The average American conservative when polled, is against elective abortions; but they’re generally fine with abortions for medical reasons. And for 20 years the Pro-life crowd has garnered their support by claiming “nobody wants to force women to die in childbirth”. Now that that’s clearly a lie that’s the truth that needs to be pushed. And I believe it will be effective.

      • mwguy@infosec.pub
        141·
        9 months ago

        I know that, but that message hasn’t been well communicated to the average red voter (likely because of the surprise of the Roe v. Wade overturning).

        People are largely against a type of abortion that is almost never used as birth control has gotten so effective. I don’t think the average person realizes that roughly half of all abortions have been for medical reasons and not been elective for a long time and that the total number of abortions have been trending downward for a long time.

        Dems need to hammer that message home this election and hopefully ads like this are effective at doing it.