Monster - Powerful new Harris ad

[Coexist]

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[Auggie]

1. Awesome ad

[usaf-vet]

2. Ditto!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Great ad

[Coexist]

4. its one that makes you sit up and think

[LastDemocratInSC]

10. Unfortunately, many who could benefit from thinking about the ad

had their curiosity trained out of them during childhood grooming and indoctrination imposed by their parents and their churches.

[hunter]

23. Religious tolerance is overrated.

The U.S.A. became a great nation in spite of religious anti-intellectualism, not because of it.

The gods some people worship are assholes.

I've got too much personal experience dealing with the damage done by people who worship these asshole gods.

[Pinback]

5. Powerful and visceral.

I was overcome with emotion hearing her story and her message. Brilliant — needs to be everywhere.

Huge thanks to this courageous young woman.

[DENVERPOPS]

28. Agreed......Countless others

were probably brought to tears hearing this, esp those of us here on DU..........

I am old, and the number of women who have confided in me, things along the lines of this story, are numerous

I, just like tens of millions of others, feel deeply for this woman........

[niyad]

6. Powerful ad. I hope it is seen everywhere.

[orthoclad]

7. Description, please?

I don't click on undescribed links.

[Coexist]

11. sorry the video is showing for me in my post

its a young woman talking about how her stepfather raped her from the time she was 6 years old and she lived with a monster, how he impregnated her at 12. How she had a choice and was able to have an abortion and she wants that option available for other abused young women.

[orthoclad]

27. Grim story.

Thanks for the text.

[Pinback]

12. New Harris campaign ad features Kentucky rape survivor who became pregnant at 12

Article in Pennsylvania Capital-Star describes it:

A new campaign ad from Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign features sexual abuse survivor Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant when she was 12 years old.

Duvall says in the 30-second spot, titled “Monster” that at the time she discovered she was pregnant, she “had options” that survivors of rape and incest no longer have after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Kentucky’s current abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest.

More info:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-campaign-ad-features-kentucky-090039463.html

[orthoclad]

26. Whew. Thanks for the text.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[Clouds Passing]

9. K & R

I had options. Some girls don’t now.

Monsters indeed!

[TBF]

13. K&R - nt

[speak easy]

14. Background music, 'When the Party's Over' by Billie Eilish and Finneas,

rerecorded for this ad. Released in 2018, this will be immediately recognized by girls aged 16 - 29.

A still from the music video:-

[geardaddy]

15. K & R

[BoRaGard]

16. k and r

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Here is a great interview on Morning Joe with Hadley Duvall

Link to tweet

Hadley Duvall: I will ask people, 'Could you sit down with me one-on-one and listen to every detail of trauma that I had to experience for about ten years?' If you can't do that, you should not feel comfortable walking into a voting booth and voting for a man who has the audacity to tell me what to do with that trauma. Look at your daughters. Your mothers. Your sisters

[StarryNite]

19. She is so brave.

[DENVERPOPS]

29. Yes indeed NC

[questionseverything]

33. What a brave young woman

[lindysalsagal]

18. Ok. She got to me. That's powerful. How brave! Heartbreaking.

[NH Ethylene]

20. What a courageous young woman.

And an impactful ad.

[Upthevibe]

21. Coexist..........

Powerful....

Thank you for posting......

[ProudProgressiveNow]

22. wow krnt

[iluvtennis]

24. So admire Hadley Duvall - what a strong, resilient young woman. n/t

[NoMoreRepugs]

25. If you watch that start to finish and you STILL vote Trump you are DEPLORABLE.

If you are a woman, a mother or grandmother of a girl you are a FUCKING MONSTER.

[Collimator]

31. The are some people who are uncompromisingly committed to the belief that a fertilized egg. . .

. . . No matter how early on in its development, is imbued with an immortal soul and therefore deserving of all legal protections.

I adamantly disagree with this point of view from the collection scientific, intellectual and moral perspectives.

No matter how strongly I disagree with people who hold the beliefs noted above, I do respect them to a certain degree.

The people whom I hold in contempt are the sort noted in this article from the Pro-Choice Action Network.
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"In 1990, in the Boston area, Operation Rescue and other groups were regularly blockading the clinics, and many of us went every Saturday morning for months to help women and staff get in. As a result, we knew many of the 'antis' by face. One morning, a woman who had been a regular 'sidewalk counselor' went into the clinic with a young woman who looked like she was 16-17, and obviously her daughter. When the mother came out about an hour later, I had to go up and ask her if her daughter's situation had caused her to change her mind. 'I don't expect you to understand my daughter's situation!' she angrily replied. The following Saturday, she was back, pleading with women entering the clinic not to 'murder their babies.'" (Clinic escort, Massachusetts)

And that woman was one of the more sympathetic individuals described, since she was, after all, looking after her daughter.

In another article-- which I can't reference, (my apologies)-- that I read, the theme was "What caused you to end a friendship?" One woman wrote about having a fairly conservative friend confide in her that she (the friend) was pregnant.

The woman asked her friend what she could do to help with the pregnancy and the friend looked at her like she had two heads before stating that she intended to secure an abortion. The woman contributing to the article said that she expressed surprise upon hearing of this from her friend due the friend's conservative views. The friend's response was that her abortion was "different" and that she "was not like those sluts."

So, yes, there are monsters among us. But having a simplistic view regarding abortion doesn't necessarily make a person one.

[Cha]

30. TY for this powerful ad.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. K&R

[bdamomma]

34. As an older woman

who has had three beautiful children my choice, what is happening now is a full assault on women's freedoms.
And if this is going to continue, they will keep taking more freedoms away. GOTV!!!!!