‘I don’t get it!’ Dem House candidate gives birth in pro-abortion campaign ad

In an attempt to balance her support for abortion, a Louisiana House candidate delivered a shocking campaign ad Monday that has since gone viral.

Democrat Katie Darling, running against House Minority Whip Steve Scalise for Louisiana’s 1st District released a 75-second ad showing her giving birth to her son Ollie in September.

“Louisiana ranks 50th in crime, 48th in education, and 46th in health care,” Darling tweeted in a post sharing the video. “I’m running for Congress to stop this race to the bottom because our children deserve better.”

The ad begins with Darling painting a picture of her life with her daughter and husband on their farm, running from composting to chickens before taking a turn for the bizarre. Darling is shown being wheeled into the delivery room, followed by scenes of giving birth as the camera closes in on her holding her newborn son on her chest.

“Katie Darling is your pro-choice reproductive rights candidate focused on defending our constitutional rights to freedom and improving the quality of life for families throughout Louisiana,” Darling’s website reads, while using the hospital scene to push her pro-abortion platform.

“These days I worry about storms that are stronger and more frequent because of climate change, about our kids’ underperforming public schools and about Louisiana’s new abortion ban, one of the strictest and most severe in the country,” the working mom from St. Tammany Parish narrates as she’s wheeled into the hospital.

“We should be putting pregnant women at ease, not putting their lives at risk. I haven’t spent my career in Washington. I’ve worked my way up from bartender to CEO. Now, I help nurses organize their complicated health records because nurses aren’t just heroes, they’re saints. Louisiana deserves better than the path we are on.”

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s hobbling of Roe v Wade, Louisiana enacted a near-total ban on abortion with bipartisan support. The law provides exceptions for the life of the mother and if the fetus isn’t viable, leaving the call to physicians on scene.

Darling’s attempt to paint abortion as a right of young mothers isn’t likely to give her the push she needs to unseat Scalise, who is in his eighth term, in conservative Louisiana, but the ad has been retweeted more than 4,300 times and has 22,000 likes.

But not everyone found the video endearing and questioned the first-time candidate’s motives.

“When a wealthy white woman like Katie Darling appears in a beautiful, expensive, professionally made video of her own pregnancy and delivery, to encourage YOU to abort YOUR unborn child, it ought to make your wonder about the racist, elitist, ableist history of abortion,” Nichole Liza tweeted.

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