The 30-second pro-life ad that FOX Sports rejected for Sunday’s Super Bowl does not even mention the word “abortion.”
Produced by the new Faces of Choice pro-life organization, the ad was created to air during the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. It shows people who have survived abortions asking the question, “Can you look me in the eye and tell me that I shouldn’t be alive?”
The simple, yet profound ad makes people think about the injustice of abortion without mentioning the word. Through the faces and words of abortion survivors, it exposes the undeniable, ugly truth that an abortion kills a unique human life.
But FOX rejected their stories for the Super Bowl – and chose to run a controversial ad featuring drag queens instead.
Lyric Gillett, the 28-year-old founder of Faces of Choice and producer of the ad, said the network gave them the run-around for months before it finally told them “no.”...
... FOX rejected the abortion survivors’ ad.
Gillett and the abortion survivors are not giving up. She said they already have begun talks with CBS about airing a commercial during the 2021 Super Bowl.
They hope that, by sharing their stories with a huge audience, they will break down the myth of “choice.”
“Abortion advocates need to look these survivors in the eye and come to terms with the fact that they are human, that their lives matter, and that choice is more than a word: it’s a person,” Gillett said.
Within just a few days, more than 100,000 people sent messages to FOX asking the network to air the ad, Gillett said. ...