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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

New Obamacare ads make young women look like sluts -- By Emily Miller, The Washington Times

Obamacare ad created by the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative and ProgressNow Colorado Education "to educate everyone about the benefits of the Affordable Care Act."So few people have enrolled in Obamacare that desperate Democrats have stooped to launching a war on women with demeaning and sexist ads.

The latest marketing campaign implies that young women would only be interested in Colorado's government-run health care exchange if they get coverage for birth control pills to have sex with strange men.

The most offensive ad shows a 20-something woman named “Susie” holding a packet of birth control pills with an open-mouth, wide smile. She is wearing a flesh-colored, low-cut, sleeveless top, tight skinny jeans and open-toed black heels.

Susie is leaning against “Nate,” who is wearing an untucked shirt with the top four buttons undone to show his hairy chest. He has a smirk on his face and one hand in the pocket of his jeans.

“OMG, he’s hot!,” Susie is shown saying. “Let’s hope he’s as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers.”

Neither Susie nor Nate is wearing a wedding band. There is an asterisk at the bottom of the ad that says, “The pill doesn’t protect you from STDs, condoms and common sense do that.”

A second ad showing a young woman holding a pack of birth control pills gives the appearance she is possible drunk and at a party. “Ali” is wearing a black, one shoulder, silky dress, bare arms and legs and high heels. She is leaning against a cutout of actor Ryan Gossling — a takeoff of the popular meme “Hey Girl.”

The copy reads from the male actor’s point of view: “You’re excited about easy access to birth control and I’m excited about getting to know you.”

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