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CV NEWS FEED // Two days before a Students for Life of America (SFLA) ad would have debuted on Reach TV for a Jan. 5 NFL game, the TV network canceled it, according to a press release from the organization.
SFLAction and SFLA Vice President of Media and Policy Kristi Hamrick told CatholicVote in an email statement that Reach TV’s reasoning for the cancellation was that “The network has deemed the matter too sensitive.” She said Reach TV approved the script before the ad was created.
The pro-life organization had created the 30-second commercial to spread awareness to football fans that Planned Parenthood is using taxpayer money to kill 400,000 preborn children every year — enough people to fill six and a half football stadiums, SFLA points out. The ad concludes with a link to call for Planned Parenthood to be defunded.
Instead, on Jan. 3, the platform canceled airing it, according to the release. The release did not indicate which NFL games the ad would have run during.
“Unassuming football fans have no idea that their daily labor for their families and livelihood go towards the brutal dismemberment and starvation of preborn children,” SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins said in the release. “Planned Parenthood’s recent annual report showed a whopping almost $700 million of funding from tax-paying American citizens.”
Moving forward, according to Hamrick, SFLAction seeks to work with other TV outlets and keep spreading awareness about Planned Parenthood’s business model of profiting off killing unborn children. Hamrick said a major focus will be on the importance of debarring and defunding the abortion giant.
Hawkins said SFLAction hopes that Congress, President-elect Donald Trump, and the Department of Government Efficiency will work to end federal abortion funding.
