FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Shelle Aberle

October 27, 2014 218-779-7271

FACT CHECK OPPONENTS OF MEASURE 1 MISLEAD WOMAN WHO SUFFERED
MISCARRAIGE INTO BELIEVING MEASURE 1 WOULD HAVE IMPACTED HER
AND BANS ALL ABORTIONS


CLAIM: NDAM1, the leading opponent of Measure 1 which has received over $1.4 million in
abortion money from out of state abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, is airing its most
notorious television commercial yet, this time using the tragic case of a woman who suffered a
miscarriage to imply that Measure 1 would damage her as well as end all abortions even in cases
such as hers. These claims are patently false.

FACT: The woman in the ad, identified as Becky from Bismarck, suffered a miscarriage,
apparently due to the fetal abnormality of sharing a placenta. The ad uses the emotion of Beckys
loss to imply that Measure 1 would have damaged her. However, Measure 1 does not and could
not impact women who have had miscarriages in any way.

FACT: In separating the emotion from the facts, one can only surmise from the advertisement that
Becky and her husband had decided to have an abortion which presumably is the course of
treatment recommended to them, but the miscarriage occurred first. This means that Becky was
misled by NDAM1 into believing that Measure 1 ends abortion, which it does not do.

FACT: An analysis published by NDAM1 legal advisor Steve Morrison correctly says, Any state
law that has been or will be passed that restricts abortion rights beyond the constitutional floor set
by the federal cases will be invalid pursuant to the Supremacy clause.

FACT: Thus, NDAM1 knew at the time this advertisement was published that it was patently false
according to their own legal analysis. Yet they were willing to use the tragic miscarriage of Becky
from Bismarck to publicize a falsehood and mislead not only the victim, but the people of North
Dakota.

FACT: North Dakota Choose Life calls on NDAM1 to apologize to Becky from Bismarck for using
her and for knowingly lying to the people of our state, and to remove this false advertisement from
the air.

FACT: The record is clear that Measure 1 is on the ballot to invalidate a court ruling creating a
virtually unlimited right to abortion based in the state constitution and to uphold current laws on the
books such as the right of women to informed consent, the right to an ultrasound, the right of
parents to be notified if a minor daughter seeks an abortion, and laws providing that only licensed
physicians with hospital admitting privileges can perform an abortion.
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