Clear Channel is under fire after pulling ads for a Wichita , Kansas
According to the Huffington Post, the South Wind Women's
Center recently re-opened, four years after its owner Dr. George Tiller was
shot and killed by an anti-abortion activist. On Thursday, Jezebel reported
that Clear Channel pulled two of the clinic's ads from the airwaves, citing a
violation of "decency standards."
Critics, however, pointed out that there was nothing
indecent about the ads, which did not mention abortion or sex. The ads said
that the clinic provides "reproductive healthcare," is staffed by
"board-certified" physicians and entrusts "women with their own
medical decision-making."
The clinic responded to Clear Channel's decision by asking
supporters to tweet the company promising to "#changethechannel unless
they start running South Wind’s ads."
The South Wind Women's Clinic opened nearly four years after
Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's few doctors performing late-term abortions,
was gunned down in his church by an abortion opponent in May 2009.
The shuttered facility was bought by an abortion-rights
group, Trust Women Foundation, which reopened it as a family and women's health
center offering abortions and other health care services.
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