Taxpayer-Funded PBS to Air 'After Tiller' Late-Term
Abortion Film
by Dr. Susan Berry 28 Aug 2014
On Labor Day, taxpayer-funded PBS is scheduled to air the
documentary After
Tiller, a film that extols the work of late-term abortionists,
aiming to evoke empathy for them and casting them as saviors and heroes of
women.
However, American Life League, the nation’s largest
grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization, is demanding that PBS cancel its Labor Day showing of the film.
“’After Tiller’ is nothing short of pure propaganda intended
to demonize the entire pro-life movement and drum up support for late-term
abortion,” Judie Brown, president of American Life League, said in a
statement.
“Why are pro-life tax dollars being used to paint a
sympathetic picture of abortionists who stab babies in the base of their skulls
just moments before they are born?” Brown asked. “Where is the sympathy for the
babies, whose brains are being sucked out by vacuum machines by these
abortionists?”
The film’s outreach partners include NARAL, Planned
Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women, and, according
to Media Impact
Funders, the producers’ target audience includes medical students,
pro-choice individuals who are against late-term abortion, Americans in states
where 20-week abortion bans have passed or are in danger of passing, and
Americans under the age of 30. This last demographic is acknowledged by the
film's production team as one which has the fastest growing number of pro-life
individuals.
Media Impact Funders states that
though the target location for the production was the U.S., the film is
“gaining traction in locations where abortion is controversial, such as Ireland
and Mexico.”
Interestingly, the funders' network indicates that during
the production’s theatrical release in San Francisco, the filmmakers used
screenings to initiate conversation with audience members about the
then-proposed late-term abortion ban in Albuquerque, which would have put two
of the late-term abortionists featured in the film out of business.
Media Impact Funders observes the response to the
filmmakers’ dialogues with the audience:
Ultimately, those conversations and "ask" for help
in opposing the ban led to over ten thousand dollars being raised to support
the Respect
ABQ Women campaign, which fought the ban, and led to an influx of
volunteers from San Francisco into Albuquerque during the crucial final weeks
of the campaign. The ballot measure was defeated.
”NARAL Pro-Choice America has shown this film to
thousands of our member activists all over the country, from South Dakota to
New Hampshire,” said president of NARAL, Ilyse Hogue, “to spark conversations
about the critical importance of protecting reproductive freedom and access to
abortion services.”
“Would PBS ever run a puff piece that was funded by the KKK
in order to sanitize and normalize racism?” asked Brown. “Shame on
PBS! This has no business airing on a publicly funded network.”
Planned Parenthood
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the American
Constitution Society, and
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Note:
George Soros is
the founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, was a contributor for MoveOn.org, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Media Matters, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Chuck Hagel was the
chairman for the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank), a director at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and is the Defense secretary for
the Barack Obama administration.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, a board member for the American
Constitution Society, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.
Caroline
Fredrickson is the president of the American
Constitution Society, and was the general counsel for the NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Ilyse Hogue is the
president of the NARAL Pro-Choice
America, a senior adviser for Media
Matters, and was a director of political advocacy for MoveOn.org.
Erroll B. Davis
Jr. is a director at the Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a life trustee at the Carnegie Mellon University.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is a life trustee at the Carnegie
Mellon University, married to John
F. Kerry, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Andrew Carnegie
was the endowed predecessor schools for the Carnegie Mellon University, the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the founder of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Carnegie Corporation of New York funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the Sesame Workshop.
Carnegie Corporation of New York funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the Sesame Workshop.
Sesame Street
is a Sesame Workshop & Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS) program.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States
in war and said they must control education)
John Edward Porter
was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a
director at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie
B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Robert H. Malott
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a director
at the National Park Foundation, and
a board member for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Bryan Traubert
is a director at the National Park
Foundation, and married to Penny S.
Pritzker.
Penny S. Pritzker
is married to Bryan Traubert, a
member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, was the national finance chair, fundraiser
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a co-chair for the 2009
Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, the host for the Barack
Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, and Craig M. Robinson’s basketball coach for the children's team
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama is
Craig M. Robinson’s sister, and was
a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow
is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and was the chairman for the Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and
the Sesame Workshop.
Sesame Street
is a Sesame Workshop & Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS) program.
Steven W. Korn was
a director at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the vice chairman & COO for CNN,
and a VP & general counsel for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
Ted Turner is the
founder of CNN, the founder of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the
chairman for the Turner Foundation, and
a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Andrew Carnegie
the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the founder of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and
the Sesame Workshop.
Sesame Street
is a Sesame Workshop & Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS) program.
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