Timed for Mother’s Day, a pro-life group is assailing HBO comic John Oliver for his slanted charge that the group is using deception to steer mothers in a “crisis pregnancy” away from abortion.
Save the Storks is teaming up with a massive social media group to rebuff Oliver and show that its work with pregnant woman has led four out of five to have their babies instead of an abortion.
Oliver’s target of mockery was the vans Save the Storks drives into communities to meet with pregnant women. Inside, their options are discussed and they are offered a free ultrasound which prompts many to keep their babies.
On his April 8 “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver said that so-called crisis pregnancy centers “deceptively steer women away from abortion.”
He showed vans from Save the Storks and poked fun at them and the group’s name.
He even had his own van outfitted and named “Vanned Parenthood,” and suggested he could make up facts to influence potential mothers. He also suggested that those who enter the Storks vans are “stupid.”
The new campaign by Save the Storks details its results and notes that most women it interacts with do not feel pressured to go through with birth. The group said that it has funded 42 buses, with 4,000 women choosing to keep their babies.
With a social media video campaign crafted by Harmon Brothers, the pro-life group is launching an effort with the theme, “Thousands of women have changed their mind on abortion after visiting a Stork Bus. Why so many?”
“This Mother’s Day campaign gives passionate, pro-life Americans the most measurable, quantifiable, and easily-accessible tools in history to make an unlimited impact wherever they are, beginning immediately,” said Victoria Robinson, director of external relations at Save the Storks.
“Every would-be mother has a fundamental right to understand all of her options during pregnancy, and we can’t wait to see how expanding on the success of Storks will transform countless lives forever,” she added.
