Someone should tell the DSCC that if you’re going to run a commercial attacking Senate candidate Dan Sullivan on women’s health issues, this is how it should be done, courtesy of the pro-Begich super-PAC Put Alaska First:
Ad attacking Senate candidate Sullivan on women’s health issues done right
Maybe the war on women ads are getting old and aren’t effective anymore.
Planned Parenthood’s stance on expanding access to birth control may be illogical in light of their mission statement, but it is perfectly logical when you consider the group’s financial interests. Planned Parenthood rakes in $1.2 billion annually; more than a third of their services involve providing contraception to women (and billing third parties for those costs). As a major provider of birth control and the nation’s number one abortion provider, why would Planned Parenthood support other options for women? The group is simply serving its own self-interest, trying to hang on to the status quo that leads to big business and big dollars for them. Who’s working against women now?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/09/29/why-does-planned-parenthood-oppose-over-the-counter-birth-control-because-theyd-make-less-money/
Maybe Sullivan’s campaign is too busy scrambling to come up with a response to the breaking news about his simultaneous Maryland residency & Alaska voting to come up with a response to this on your blog. Or maybe they can’t even if they weren’t busy. Or maybe they are content with the AK GOP’s
re: Planned Parenthood and still don’t understand where the rightful #WarOnWomen accusation originates from.