The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) is familiar with this fight. Keep reading.
Lamar Advertising Company, which provides billboards, rejected billboard ads for pro-life organizations.
One of those organizations is Stanton Healthcare, a faith-based provider, which sought to advertise the abortion reversal pill on billboards in Idaho.
The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), which represents Stanton, sent the company a legal warning letter. According to ACLJ, Lamar Advertising claimed that it rejected the ad because APR [abortion pill reversal] “has not been deemed safe and effective by the FDA.”
This is a misleading narrative, wrote Olivia Summers, ACLJ lawyer.
“That assertion misunderstands both FDA authority and the practice of medicine.” The FDA approves drugs ‘specific labeled uses.’ Doctors may prescribe drugs for other medically appropriate purposes.”
Apparently, Lamar Advertising’s lawyer didn’t take the time to research what the FDA does. Or the people who run the organization are abortion advocating leftists.
“The FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine,” Summers wrote. “The absence of FDA approval for a particular use does not mean the use is unsafe. Lawful medical services do not require an FDA ‘safe and effective’ designation to be advertised.”
The advertising company changed its mind and will accept the APR ads after all. In fact, the company may allow previously rejected pro-life ads to run.
“At the ACLJ, we will continue to stand up for the right to share truthful, life-affirming information – and to ensure that no one is silenced for offering women empowering, life-affirming choices,” Summers wrote.
Star Parker, founder and former president of CURE, dealt with a similar situation during the Black Lives Matter fiasco in 2020. Members complained about CURE’s anti-poverty billboard campaign.
The billboards read: “Tired of Poverty? Finish school. Take any job. Get married. Save and invest. Give back to your neighborhood.”
Clear Channel caved and took down the ads. Watch the CURE America episode below for more.
Photo credit: ACLJ
