WASHINGTON, January 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a major advertising campaign presenting basic facts about legal abortion.
The project, titled the “Second Look Project,” is running ads in the Washington area as well as throughout the US, including over 500 transit ads in Washington, as well as spots in The Washington Post, the Washington Times, the National Catholic Register, America, Commonweal, the New Republic, and the National Review.
“While abortion has been legal in the US for three decades,” their web site explains, “polls continue to show that people do not have very basic information about abortion, such as when during pregnancy it is legal, or why it is generally performed. The Second Look Project offers information to help people make informed decisions based on fact rather than emotion.”
“Three decades after Roe v. Wade, many people still do not understand basic facts about legal abortion—like the fact that abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy,” said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq., Director of Planning and Information for the Secretariat.
“Recent polls showing support for Roe v. Wade describe Roe as the decision which legalized abortion in the first 3 months of pregnancy, a flagrant distortion of the truth,” said Ruse. “Roe created an unlimited right to abortion and most people think an unlimited right to abortion is wrong.”
“The Second Look Project is innovative because it provides basic facts about legal abortion, and lets the facts speak for themselves,” said Ruse.
The ads direct viewers to a website with additional and supporting information
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