In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent announcement that it would be taking up the first major abortion case in years, the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life advocacy group, announced it was launching a $2-million television ad campaign.  But even though the ad the group produced does not contain any graphic footage, multiple television networks have nonetheless rejected it.

The ad starts out by noting that, after five decades of medical breakthroughs, "every age group has more opportunity to live — except one.  The unborn still fall victim to outdated laws."  It continues, "Science tells us that at 15 weeks these babies have fully formed faces.  They smile.  They yawn.  They feel pain.  It's why European countries ban late-term abortions.  In five decades, we've learned they are just like us. Isn't it time the law reflects the science?"

We're launching an initial $2M campaign highlighting the humanity of unborn children as the Supreme Court prepares to review a landmark abortion case

Watch the ad: pic.twitter.com/3xNV0Mm4sm

— Susan B. Anthony List #HydeSavesLives (@SBAList) May 26, 2021

The SBA List has frequently pointed out that its ad is not a call to action or an attack on any politician, but simply "a response to news that the U.S. Supreme Court will review a Mississippi law limiting abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy" and a celebration of the miracles of modern medicine.

Be that as it may, CMT, owned by ViacomCBS, explained to the SBA List that, though it sometimes takes "issue-based ads," theirs was just too controversial.  "While we do accept political and issue-based ads on a case-by-case basis, issue-oriented ads that are designed for the purpose of presenting views or influencing legislation on issues that are controversial by general public consensus are unacceptable," CMT said, according to the Daily Wire.

The Daily Wire also reported that Crown Media, which owns Hallmark, informed the SBA List that it had rejected the ad "because it does not meet the Hallmark Channel's criteria for the positive experience Hallmark aims to offer viewers."  Sure.  Duckies and bunnies all the time is the hallmark of the Hallmark Channel.

CBS, channeling its inner CMT (or maybe CMT was channeling its inner CBS), told the SBA List that "Issue-oriented advertisements that are designed for the purpose of presenting views or influencing legislation on issues that are controversial by general public consensus are unacceptable."  Really, CBS?  What is 60 Minutes if not an hour-long issue-oriented advertisement for progressive causes?

Some "pro-choice" groups are worried about the Court's decision, though it likely won't be rendered until 2022.  Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said, "Alarm bells are ringing loudly about the threat to reproductive rights."

Note to Nancy: There is no threat to reproductive rights.  Everyone has the right to reproduce.  Everyone has the right not to, as well...by simply not engaging in the act that was specifically designed for procreation.  Don't want to get arrested for drunk driving?  Don't drive drunk.

Remarkably, restrictions on the wholesale slaughter of innocent life are "controversial" to so-called progressives and those who would aid and abet them.  Still others are unwilling to potentially lose a few bucks in revenue by upsetting the "pro-choice" crowd, most of whom were not pro-choice as regards the government telling individuals to stay at home, wear masks in public, and get vaccinated.

Isn't it interesting and tragic that pro-life messages are "controversial" and not conducive to a "positive experience" while we allow our cities to be burned and looted and our children to be abused and maimed?

Leftists are nothing if not frauds.  Everything they do is for the purpose of presenting views and influencing legislation on controversial issues.  That is their approach to education, news, "entertainment," and everything else.

The rest of us must exercise our pro-choice rights by refusing to be intimidated by them.