{"id":24054,"date":"2010-07-09T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24054"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:09:34","slug":"british-tv-commercial-promotes-abortion-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/09\/british-tv-commercial-promotes-abortion-services\/","title":{"rendered":"British TV Commercial Promotes Abortion Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe ad below is the first-ever British TV commercial advertising abortion services<\/span> family planning options, including abortion.\u00a0 It is being shown late at night and says:<\/p>\n

If you’re late for your period, you could be pregnant. If you’re pregnant and not sure what to do, Marie Stopes International<\/a> can help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t remember ever seeing such a commercial. Condoms, birth control pills, pregnancy tests, herpes medication, HPV vaccines, tampons, Viagra, and sex, sex, sex, YES. Abortion, NEVER. Salon<\/em><\/a> seems to claim that it’s the first of its kind anywhere.<\/p>\n

Have you ever seen such a thing where you live? What do you imagine are the politics around the airing of a commercial advertising abortion services?<\/p>\n

Via Feministing<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ad below is the first-ever British TV commercial advertising abortion services family planning options, including abortion.\u00a0 It is being shown late at night and says: If you’re late for your period, you could be pregnant. If you’re pregnant and not sure what to do, Marie Stopes International can help. I don’t remember ever seeing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,23703,1811],"class_list":["post-24054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-marketing","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24054"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59952,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054\/revisions\/59952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}