‘House’ Actress Lisa Edelstein Stars in Pro-Choice Ad as Abortion Fight Heats Up in Congress

(HMG Celebrity News) – As part of Republican proposed spending cuts an amendment was introduced to the spending bill that would bar Planned Parenthood, and end Title X, a federal grant program established in 1970 to provide contraceptive services, sexual health care supplies and information to low-income women. So MoveOn.org, a liberal political action committee, has launched a counter on-air offensive, running an eerie television advertisement showing a woman played by actress Lisa Edelstein, in 1950s-era clothing apparently in need of an abortion walking nervously toward a closet where a single coat hanger dangles. Edelstein’s voice narrates in the background saying, “Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse.”

As she gets closer to the closet door, she continues: “So when the Republican Party launched an all out assault on women’s health pushing bills to limit access to vital services, why is the GOP trying to send women back… to the back alley?”

The actress best known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the hit TV show ‘House,’ who is as a volunteer for the Best Friends Animal Society, Save the Children and Planned Parenthood, explained her decision to star in the ad: “I decided to do this ad because I believe that every woman needs to know the grave danger that women’s reproductive rights are facing in Congress right now,” she said.

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I hope that women across America tell Congress that these bills are an attack on women’s health and that they are unacceptable.”

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Source: Radar