YouTube Pulls Video of Eduardo Verástegui Denouncing Obama on Abortion
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 26, 2008
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — No sooner had the video gone up of popular Hispanic actor Eduardo Verástegui denouncing presidential candidate Barack Obama on abortion than YouTube officials took it down. The video sharing site removed the full version of the video, which showed graphic images of abortions.
It did, however, leave an edited version in place that contains the Bella actor urging Latinos to vote against Obama without the footage of babies who have died from abortions.
The Verástegui video has already caught fire across the Internet with more than 8,000 people viewing it in only two days.
It features the former Mexican pop singer and telenovella actor telling Hispanic Americans that Obama is pro-abortion and wants to pay for abortions with their tax money.
In the new video, conducted in Spanish, Verástegui, says Obama is out of step with the overwhelming majority of Hispanics who are pro-life.
“We need to put an end to abortion and political candidates play a very important role in this matter,” he says.
Verástegui tells viewers that Obama supports abortions throughout pregnancy, including late-term abortions, and has opposed a ban on partial-birth abortions.
Moreover, the actor says Obama “wants to finance abortions with the tax dollars you and I pay.”
The Bella star also talks about the votes Obama cast during his tenure in the Illinois legislature that would deprive newborn infants of medical care if they survive botched abortions.
He says Obama “voted on several occasions against a law to protect babies who survived an abortion and were born alive."
YouTube has repeatedly pulled pro-life videos from its service that it felt were too graphic to be seen.
Last week, it removed a video from the Kansas Coalition for Life that exposed Obama’s pro-abortion views and included information about Obama’s voting record on abortion-related bills.
Earlier this month, YouTube came under fire for blocking an investigative video from the pro-life group Live Action exposing the racist donations Planned Parenthood accepted.
In July, a short film by the pro- life Population Research Institute highlighting dishonest reporting from a pro-choice filmmaker was censored.
YouTube eventually responded to criticism and restored both videos.
Also, YouTube took down a video from Citizens for a Pro-Life Society showing an abortion center that was investigated for illegally dumping medical waste.
The full Verástegui video is now at www.durarealidad.com while the edited version can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx5A029sEPc
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