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baby holds a bunch of flowers at a vigil in Trafalgar Square the day after an
attack, in London, Britain March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Darren Staples
A twenty-two second video making its rounds over social
media this past week points out the absurdity of liberals championing abortion.
“You Will Never Know Me,” a self-funded public service
announcement from film director Jack Thomas Smith and his fiancée Mandy Del
Rio, features people declaring their support for causes like feminism and open
borders.
“I believe in feminism. Animal rights. LGBT rights. Gun
control. Civil rights. Bridges not walls,” the group tells viewers. “But you
will never know that about me. Because I was aborted.”
Smith, a writer, director and producer of films like
DISORDER and INFLICTION, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that he wanted
to create an ad that showed how liberals are hurting themselves by being
staunch supporters of abortion because they are possibly aborting the very
people who will share the same values as them.
“I wanted to show the hypocrisy of liberals and abortion.
First of all, they’re hypocrites because they are already here,” Smith told
TheDCNF. “Second, they very well could be aborting those who will someday
believe in and champion their very causes. For example, feminists always say my
body, my choice but what if your pre-born child is a girl? Shouldn’t it be her
body, her choice?”
The release of the PSA coincides with the National Day of
Remembrance for Aborted Children, a yearly event that occurs on the second
Saturday of September. Sponsored by the Pro-Life Action League, Citizens for a
Pro-Life Society and Priests for Life, the day calls for people to gather at
the graves of aborted children to host prayer vigils.
Smith created “You Will Never Know Me” because he felt
that it was a statement he needed to make about the current debate over
abortion; he’s preparing himself for negative reactions from groups like
Planned Parenthood should the video take off, he told TheDCNF. He has already
ran into some backlash while trying to cast the video.
“To cast this little public service announcement was one
of the toughest things I’ve done because so many actors and actresses are so
liberal, “he said to TheDCNF. “… You would not believe how many people blasted
me. The actors and actresses would say ‘Oh a man should never say what a woman
does with her body. This is horrible what you’re trying to do.'”
Regardless of the potential backlash, Smith said it could
be worth it because “it’s something I believe in, and it’s a statement I wanted
to make.”
