A super PAC led by California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will air a new TV ad targeting “Trump Republicans” on abortion in Tennessee this week.
The Democracy Campaign ad, first shared on NBC News' “Meet the Press,” features a young woman handcuffed to a hospital bed pleading for help as a narrator tells viewers: “Trump Republicans want to criminalize young women who travel” so they can get the reproductive health care they need. Don't let the women of Tennessee be held hostage. ”
“Not only are they restricting young women's right to have children and self-determination, they're also dictating the fate of their future lives by saying they can't even travel,” Newsom said. Ta. “Meet the Press” on Saturday.
The Campaign for Democracy plans to run the ads in Tennessee. That's because there are two bills pending in the state Legislature (one in the state House of Representatives and one in the state Senate) that call for “abortion trafficking,” or the use of minors without parental consent. This would create a crime for helping women obtain abortions. Agree.
The bill would make any violation of the law that criminalizes “recruiting, harboring, or transporting a pregnant minor within the state for the purpose of concealing an abortion from the minor's parents” as a Class C felony. It is proposed to configure. A minimum prison sentence of six years is mandatory.
“These travel restrictions [are] Modeled after the version that passed, Idaho is currently being proposed in Tennessee, Oklahoma and Mississippi,” Newsom said.
“That's how serious this moment is. And we have to be even more proactive,” he continued.
The ad comes just a week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are human, putting in vitro fertilization and other forms of infertility treatment at risk in the state.
“This is not just a war on travel. It's not just a war on reproductive health care. It's also a war on women more broadly,” Newsom said.
The Campaign for Democracy plans to run similar ads in other states considering abortion travel bans, including Oklahoma, Mississippi and Alabama.
