Stop Abortion Adverts on TV and Radio

The Broadcasting Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) public consultation is considering proposals to allow abortion organisations to advertise on TV and radio.

The Broadcasting Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) public consultation is considering proposals to allow abortion organisations to advertise on TV and radio. The consultation closes at 5pm on Friday 19 June 2009. We ask you to oppose proposals to allow pro-abortion advertising.

Action to take:

1. Sign the ProLife Alliance petition which can be found at the following link:

   http://prolife.org.uk/petition-reject-abortion-adverts-on-tv-and-radio/

2. Sign the petition to the Prime Minister to stop abortion advertising on TV, which can be found at the following link:

   http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Noabortionads/#detail

   
   

   Please only sign the petitions if you are a UK resident and if you haven’t already done so. Please encourage others to sign.

3. Please also consider putting in a response to the BCAP consultation before the deadline Friday 19 June.

In order to do so you need to complete a covering sheet which can be copied in word and then when completed attached to your e-mail response. The sheet can be found at the following link:

http://www.asa.org.uk/cap/Consultations/response_sheet/

There are 157 questions in this consultation but you are free to respond to only one or more of the questions. We recommend that you answer questions 62 and 147, but feel free to answer other questions if you wish.

The BCAP full consultation link can be found by clicking here.

Question 62

Question 62 is about abortion on TV and radio.

Question 62 is detailed on pages 90 to 91 of the consultation document which can be found by clicking here.

Suggested ideas for your response:

Please click here to see our response to these questions from which you can copy and paste the questions. Please say that you oppose adverts on TV and radio for abortion, the morning after pill, condoms and any pre-conception and post conception services which should be prohibited. Then pick out any one or more of the points to raise from the ones we have listed described in your own words or think of your own points to oppose such adverts and send in a response.

Further information on question 62 can be found at the following ProLife Alliance link:

http://prolife.org.uk/pro-abortion-advertising-universally-condemned/

Question 147

Question 147 is about the relaxation of condom advertising on pages 203 to 204 of the consultation document which can be found at the following link:

Consultation on the proposed BCAP Broadcast Advertising Standards Code

The consultation has been reported on in the press, please see the following links:

Daily Telegraph: Abortion clinics to advertise on television for the tirst time.

Daily Telegraph: New Roman Catholic leader condemns abortion ads on TV

Please send your response by E-mail to BCAPcodereview@cap.org.uk. titled BCAP Code Review Consultation Response, together with your attached covering sheet no later than 5pm on Friday 19^th June 2009.

NB: BCAP strongly prefers responses as email attachments, in Microsoft Word format, because that helps them to process the responses.

Please pray, life is a precious gift from God.

You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart. When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother's womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there — you saw me before I was born. (Psalm 139)