WSJ on “How Much Time” Campaign
The Wall Street Journal today highlights the “How Much Time?” campaign, an initiative of the Winning Message Action Fund. This “provocative” campaign aims to air advertisements in key battleground states this election season, asking voters to consider the consequences that would flow from overturning Roe v. Wade. “If abortion is made illegal,” HowMuchTme.org says, “the woman having one will be a criminal. How much time should she do?”
The campaign highlights that if McCain and Palin succeed in the upcoming election, questions like “how much time should she do” will no longer be rhetorical. “When it comes to your personal freedoms,” one of the advertisements reads, “John McCain is worse than George W. Bush.” “Who’s worse than John McCain?” it continues, “Sarah Palin.”
In response to groups like BornAliveTruth.org, which run anti-choice campaigns that distort the conversation on abortion by focusing on gruesome half-truths, the How Much Time campaign brings attention back to how banning abortion will have terrible and dangerous effects on women.
By Allison Farer