Women in the San Fran area are not too pleased about a recent series of anti-choice ads littering the BART trains.
The ads--funded by the Respect Life Ministry of the Oakland Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church--carry the tagline “Abortion: Have we gone too far?” (Click here to see two of the ads.)
The posters also point to the website of The Second Look Project, which is as scary as it gets.
Over 280 ads are in the BART trains and 48 larger versions are in the train stations.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that many of the posters have been defaced or torn down. Gee, I wonder why.
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The same ads ran on the Metro in DC for a while there. (Could still be, I don't know. I no longer take the Metro to work.) There's little to say about them besides - it ain't true.
Yep, these ads were on both the subway and on the buses in DC. And while they are SO NOT TRUE, they really did deflate my spirits when I saw them. I'd be having a great day and then I'd look up and see this bullshit and it'd frustrate me that WMATA would allow this stuff to be posted. Never once did I see posters for NARAL or CRR or Planned Parenthood or NOW promoting one's right to choose.
I was pleased once to see that someone had scrawled "LIES" on one of the posters. I know it's probably not the most effective way of getting one's point across, but it made my commute more upbeat that day.
We had them a while ago on Septa in Philly. Sorry to see they're still out there...
ugh that sucks. i've never seen an anti-choice ad in nyc subways. i would have to get all Queens on their asses and steal the posters like Vanessa and i used to do back junior high. yes, we were hooligans.
Can I assume these are lies? What a downer to have to look at that on the way to work. Not that I would want to have to look at an abortion debate on the subway, but does anyone here know if pro-choice organizations have tried to post ads in the transit system as well?
I love that they feel the need to debunk the "myth" that people support Roe v. Wade. How could it persuade anyone to become Pro-Life just by seeing that most people aren't Pro-Choice? Unless "because it's popular" has become a good reason to adopt ANY stance.
Also, why oh why do people keep citing Roe and the regulations it laid down as the current restrictions? There's been a slew of cases since that have set the existing precedent. I don't recall case names off the top of my head anymore, but there was one which changed the ruling about "trimesters" and made it based upon "viability" instead (that they couldn't regulate the reason for an abortion before the point of viability, but after that it had to be supported with a medical reason). Another set the standard for what states can regulate (parental consent, funding allocation). Roe is NOT what's used anymore, so why is it that it seems like it's the only case anyone knows?