Kay Hagan's Extreme Position on Late-Term Abortion Highlighted in New $620k Ad Buy
John McCormack
October 7, 2014
North Carolina senator Kay Hagan's position on abortion is the target of a new $620,000 TV ad campaign that is being launched today by the Women Speak Out PAC:
In the ad, a husband and wife, Becca and Ned Ryun, tell the moving story of how doctors saved the life of their daughter Charlotte who was born prematurely at 24 weeks into pregnancy. Photos of their daughter in the neo-natal intenseive care unit flash across the screen, and it isn't until the end of the minute-long spot that the viewer gets a political message.
"For those who are advocating late-term abortions, look at my daughter," says Ned Ryun. The ad concludes with a narrator conveying that North Carolina's senator thinks it should be legal to abort infants like Charlotte late in pregnancy: "Kay Hagan supports painful, late-term abortions. She's too extreme for North Carolina."
Hagan said in 2013 that she opposed legislation that would protect the lives of unborn children after the 20th week of gestation, when babies are old enough to feel pain and able to live long-term if born in many cases.
The bill was introduced and passed the House of Representatives in the summer of 2013 following the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who was convicted of murder for killing infants outside the womb. When Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, was asked what the difference was between killing a 23-week-old baby outside the womb and aborting that same child in utero, she sputtered and couldn't answer the question.
National polls have consistently shown that Americans' support a 20-week limit on abortion, and support is likely higher in many red states where incumbent Democrats are now facing reelection. In North Carolina, Hagan currently leads Republican Thom Tillis by nearly 4 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.
In the ad, a husband and wife, Becca and Ned Ryun, tell the moving story of how doctors saved the life of their daughter Charlotte who was born prematurely at 24 weeks into pregnancy. Photos of their daughter in the neo-natal intenseive care unit flash across the screen, and it isn't until the end of the minute-long spot that the viewer gets a political message.
"For those who are advocating late-term abortions, look at my daughter," says Ned Ryun. The ad concludes with a narrator conveying that North Carolina's senator thinks it should be legal to abort infants like Charlotte late in pregnancy: "Kay Hagan supports painful, late-term abortions. She's too extreme for North Carolina."
Hagan said in 2013 that she opposed legislation that would protect the lives of unborn children after the 20th week of gestation, when babies are old enough to feel pain and able to live long-term if born in many cases.
The bill was introduced and passed the House of Representatives in the summer of 2013 following the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who was convicted of murder for killing infants outside the womb. When Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, was asked what the difference was between killing a 23-week-old baby outside the womb and aborting that same child in utero, she sputtered and couldn't answer the question.
National polls have consistently shown that Americans' support a 20-week limit on abortion, and support is likely higher in many red states where incumbent Democrats are now facing reelection. In North Carolina, Hagan currently leads Republican Thom Tillis by nearly 4 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.
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