Pro-choice organization criticizes Royals for running ads for pro-life group

[pstokely]

Source: KC Star

A national women’s advocacy group demanded Friday that the Royals end their agreement with an anti-abortion organization that advertises on the team’s radio broadcasts and at games.

The advocacy group, UltraViolet, condemned the Royals’ relationship with the Vitae Foundation, a nonprofit that UltraViolet said disseminates misleading information to pregnant women.

“Make no mistake: This partnership is part of a deceptive anti-choice agenda, and the Kansas City Royals are not only condoning it, but willingly participating and amplifying it,” Karin Roland, chief campaigns officer at UltraViolet, said Friday in news release.

The Vitae Foundation encourages women to visit pregnancy help centers, which counsel pregnant women, as an alternative to abortion. According the organization’s website, it is dedicated to “educating the public about the value and sanctity of human life; and restoring the value of life as a core belief in the American culture.”

Mike Swanson, Royals vice president for communications and broadcasting, said the Vitae Foundation has had a relationship with the Royals since the beginning of the 2016 season.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article154143134.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Good luck. Abortion and birth control are about to be illegal in the United States

That is if we live long enough to see it.

But better than a woman with a private server, so there is that, right!

[musette_sf]

2. Contact the KC Royals and speak out

against this hateful anti-American attack on the sacred civil, human and Constitutional rights of innocent female US citizens, at the feedback link below.

https://secure.mlb.com/help/email.jsp?c_id=kc&primarySubject=Other&secondarySubject=None&dest=[e-mail]

[TryLogic]

3. Here is a link for fan feedback to the KC Royals.

https://secure.mlb.com/help/email.jsp?c_id=kc&primarySubject=Other&secondarySubject=None&dest=[e-mail]

Their owner, David Glass, is a former CEO of Walmart, grew up in rural Missouri (Springfield area, I think), and is a conservative religious dude.

[not fooled]

4. Oh, and Kansas

How're those right wing policies working out for you?

Not so great, last time I heard.

But of course keeping the rubes voting puke because of abortion is essential considering that your economic policies are a failure.

[musette_sf]

5. Brownbackistan

bankrupting Kansas exactly the way that Rump wants to bankrupt America

[Danmel]

8. The Royals play in Missouri not Kansas

Not that Missouri is much better.

[musette_sf]

9. My bad, and agreed on Missouri n/t

[Honeycombe8]

6. Great Britain has historically been more conservative than America, I think.

They used to have a religion running the country back in the middle ages & such.

[whistler162]

7. Wrong Royals.