'Strung along': Fox declines Super Bowl ad on botched abortions

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Fox's network has opted not to air an awareness campaign during the Super Bowl featuring people who survived botched abortions.

The organization behind the ad, Faces of Choice, said it had been working unsuccessfully with Fox's legal department since July and had been "given the runaround for six months," receiving no definitive answer from the network.

"If you don't want to run it, then give us the dignity of response and give us a reason why," Lyric Gillett, 28, founder and director of Faces of Choice, said in an interview. She first started working on the idea for the organization when she was in college.

Fox blamed a lack of ad space. “Super Bowl LIV sold out at a record pace this year, and unfortunately, we were unable to accommodate Faces of Choice and other advertisers," a representative from Fox Corporation told the Washington Examiner.

The 30-second, black-and-white ad shows people looking directly at the camera, asking viewers, "Can you look me in the eye and tell me that I shouldn't be alive?" and "Can you tell me that I didn't deserve to survive?"

The video does not use the word "abortion" but instead uses the word "choice," a thinly veiled reference to how the abortion rights movement uses the term "pro-choice" to define its position on the issue.