When conservative campaigns malign PP as "babykillers" they are totally forgetting the millions of women who use PP as primary care for gynecological issues.
"Every eight minutes a child is sexually abused. That’s why Barack Obama supported legislation to teach children how to protect themselves," a female narrator says in it. "Now John McCain is twisting the facts and attacking Sen. Obama. Doesn’t McCain want our children to protect themselves from sex offenders? Or after 26 years in Washington is he just another politician who’ll say anything to get elected?"
Planned Parenthood spokesman Tait Sye justifies the response ad, saying: "It was important to set the record straight. [The McCain ad] clearly distorts both Obama's record and the bill."
Indeed, non-partisan fact-checkers have criticized the McCain ad, noting that the legislation didn't teach the birds and bees to kindergartners -- instead it taught "age-appropriate" sex education to help warn children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators. Moreover, although Obama voted for this legislation, he didn't sponsor it and it didn't pass, as the ad implies.
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