Saturday, January 21, 2012

Pro-life activist Randall Terry is running for president -- and he plans to run a graphic political advertisement during the Super Bowl. Terry is running on the Deomcratic ticket to challenge President Obama in the 2012 election.

Terry made a stop at Wichita for a campaign rally at the Word of Life Church. Terry is seeking donations to fund his ad, which he says "will" run during the Super Bowl.

"The ad shows the fruit of Obama's policies -- dead babies," Terry said.

Terry says that the Super Bowl ad will be graphic, and will show images of aborted fetuses.

"These pictures are gruesome, they're horrific, and they will upset people," Terry said. "But my point is simple -- something so horrific and upsetting should not be legal."

Terry says that the ads will be able to run during the Super Bowl because the FCC states that federal candidates are entitled to purchace all time offered by networks to advertisers.

"Federal law requires that any FCC licensed station must take the ad of a federal candidate," Terry said. "I'm going to the stations in the states where I'm on the primary... and saying 'Here's my ad,' and they have to run it."

Terry was one of the leaders of the 1991 "Summer of Mercy" abortion protests in Wichita -- which led to the arrests of more than 27 hundred people. Terry says he's running as a Democrat against President Obama to gain the vote of Pro-life Democrats.

"I'm running for president to cause a crisis of conscience in Catholic and Evangelical voters who voted for him in '08, so that they won't vote for him in '12, for the sake of unborn babies, because he promotes killing babies," Terry said.

Terry says he's running on the democratic ticket because he doesn't want Christians to say he is dividing the vote.