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WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A popular ad targeting Planned Parenthood by leading pro-life group American Life League, aimed at supporting the effort to take down taxpayer funding of the abortion giant, has been rejected by local Washington TV stations.

The 30-second spot features a cute bunny being plopped into a blender with the provocative tagline: “Imagine the government giving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year to a company that does this…“

Planned Parenthood, with over $1 billion in annual revenues, targeted DC lawmakers with a $200,000 advertising blitz aimed at keeping a hold on $363 million in federal and local taxpayer subsidies during this national debt crisis.  The polished advertisements promote the story of a woman who “wouldn’t be here today” without Planned Parenthood.  The ads do not mention that the group is the nation’s number #1 marketer of abortions.

American Life League (ALL) tried to respond with their popular “Planned Parenthood Bunnies” video, but the group says that local DC affiliates of NBC and CBS — NBC4 and USA9 — both rejected the pro-life response on legal grounds.  They claimed that ALL must “prove” that Planned Parenthood puts babies in blenders.

ALL says the TV stations are being “legalistic” in demanding proof for what is clearly an analogy – comparing the abortion procedures used to dismember and disembowel children in the womb to a blender.  They say the Planned Parenthood ads are ironic if not outright deceptive, and so the fact that the stations are demanding proof for ALL’s “obvious analogy” shows that liberal bias “is not confined to news departments.”

“Even with growing distaste for the reality of abortion, Planned Parenthood posted record sales of abortions every year for 15 years, topping 330,000 in 2009.  That’s almost 1,000 per day,“ said Jim Sedlak, vice president at American Life League.  “Abortion is a core product of their business.  If they are a life saving organization, McDonalds is a salad bar.”

Referring to the famous “This Is Your Brain on Drugs” 1980s anti-drug commercial, Michael Hichborn, a lead researcher with ALL, put it this way:  “The Partnership for a Drug-Free America never had to prove that drugs turn the human brain into a chicken egg in a frying pan and Energizer has yet to prove that rabbits play drums.”

ALL’s Planned Parenthood Bunnies video avoids graphic images and reached YouTube’s Top 10 most discussed nonprofit and activism videos soon after release.