The Supreme Court is in the news as it gets ready to hear cases involving birth control. You might think there is no GOP approved birth control plan, but you’re wrong as this video shows. Its director Rod Blackhurst explains:
The Right to A RIGHT Life is a commercial for birth control (read: abortion pill) that Republicans can feel good about. For the first time ever Republicans can stand up for what they actually believe in, the right to a RIGHT life. One can now instantly determine if their unborn child exhibits early symptoms of unusually high levels of pre-emptive empathy – a lean towards equal opportunities for all, an interest in a well regulated economy that protects against the interests of big business, or a belief that the protection of civil liberties and human rights is at the basis of our democracy. And with PlanGOP, you can isolate and solve your problem with one simple dose.
When it comes to hot button issues of class division, civil rights, and reproductive rights, 98% of Republicans (Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and activist conservative Supreme Court justices aside) don’t have the courage to publicly say what they actually want to say. So we figured we’d create a satirical super PAC/pharmaceutical commercial that stands up for what every Republican is actually thinking. We even made sure that the women in the commercial don’t speak for themselves – because, hey, the men make all the decisions about reproduction anyway right?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.