Eclectic Amateur

The Pro-Life Ad I’d Like To See

[Scene: The reception area of some sort of medical facility.  People

	in scrubs are bustling about, looking grim and hurried.  The

	place is done in Institutional Drab, and the lighting makes

	everything look a touch like the Twilight Zone.

	Center on a teenage girl, maybe 15, stylishly

	grungeish/punkish  and with a few strategic piercings (extra

        earrings, an eyebrow ring, something). She's obviously

	exasperated, as is the nurse at	the desk who is speaking to her.]

Nurse:  "I'm sorry, but we really can't do this kind of elective

        procedure with a minor without some sort of parental consent.

        Not to mention insurance, contact for familiy doctor ..."

Girl:   [Now looking a bit scared and panicky] "But I need to get this

        done!"

Nurse:  "I'm sorry, but those are the rules."

Girl:   "But the counselor told me I wouldn't need that!"

Nurse:  "Counselor?"  [light bulb moment]  "Oh!  I thought you were

        here for another piercing."

Girl:   [Shakes head 'no'.]

Nurse:  [Lowers voice, says more sympatheticaly] "Abortion?"

Girl:   [Lowers eyes, nods 'yes'.]

Nurse:  [Perks up a bit, puts a bit of forced cheerfulness in voice]

        "Oh, you're at the wrong desk.  Abortions are down that hall

        and to the left.  Just sign in there, they can take care of

        you without any paperwork at all, as long as you can pay cash."

Girl nods, disappears down halway as we fade to black.

To make it a bit more election-oriented, we follow on with a white-text-on-black-background-with-voiceover, and the following:

"Ridiculous?"

"Jennifer Granholm doesn't think so."

"Abortion is a serious medical procedure, with risks of severe side

effects."  [Insert scary medical statistics here.]  "But Jennifer

Granholm supports giving abortionists an exception to the standards

that all other doctors and nurses must uphold.

"Leaving scared teenage girls to face the medical system and possibly

severe physical side effects -- alone."

"And Jennifer Granholm calls this 'women's health care'?"

"Let's elect a governor who'll really protect the health of the young

women of Michigan, by holding abortionists who practice on young girls

to the same high medical standards we expect for everyone.  Vote Dick

Posthumus on November 5th."

(Paid for by nobody-at-all, because no one will ever actually make and air a commercial like this.)