KELOWNA, B.C., February 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – CHBC, the Kelowna local television station that drew national coverage this week after agreeing to air a pro-life ad, has changed its mind, claiming that the ad is too graphic.I knew this would happen eventually; the previous news of a pro-life ad approved by the Television Bureau of Canada, did sound too good to be true. Still, that is way too late for the pro-aborts. They got the ad cancelled by a local TV station, but now, in light of the controversy, there will be a lot more people watching the ad on YouTube - just to see what the dispute is all about.
The ad was sponsored by Kelowna Right to Life (KRTL), who got the news of its cancellation yesterday. “The reason they gave is that it's simply too graphic for a television commercial,” said Marlon Bartram, KRTL's executive director. The station told Bartram that they had received between 12 and 18 complaints from people who demanded the ad not run.
“So a handful of abortion activists have persuaded a major media outlet to once again censor the truth of what is the most important social, moral and human rights issue of our time,” he said in a press release. “The bottom line here is that this outlet is compromising the fundamental purpose of media: to seek out the truth and present it in a fair, balanced, and thorough manner. Although Global TV has been very good about running our ads for some time now, it appears as though they have sided with abortion activists this time."
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Before the ad was cancelled, Derek Hinchliffe, CHBC's news director, told The Province that it would be wrong for them to refuse the ad, as it was approved by the Television Bureau of Canada. "It has met with their approval, so if we were to say, ‘No, we're not going to run it,’ we would have been offensive," he said.
Meanwhile, Kelowna Right to Life is not giving up. A petition in support of the pro-life ad has been launched. Let's see the mainstream media double standards in action: it takes 12-18 pro-aborts to cancel a pro-life ad and how many pro-lifers to bring it back? (Oh, I know it's a rhetorical question.) Kelowna Right to Life has also launched a Facebook group in support of the ad, which is starting to gather supporters.
“700 living, unborn, human children are violently killed by abortion every year in our community alone, and over 100,000 across Canada,” stated Bartram. “Its time the media does its due diligence, stop censoring the truth, and expose the horror of abortion for what it truly is.”
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