A viral ad titled “MAGA In Your Sheets” has taken social media by storm, spotlighting GOP restrictions on reproductive rights and access to contraception.
Created by the Progress Action Fund, the ad, which has garnered 15 million views on X, uses satire to critique the GOP’s influence on personal freedoms. It follows a young couple dealing with a broken condom incident.
As the young man searches the bathroom for emergency contraception, he’s confronted by a Republican congressman character who informs him that “Plan B” is now banned under new GOP policies.
“No, you can’t do this,” the young man pleads. “I can’t have a kid right now!”
But the lawmaker, unfazed, reminds him that, after the recent election, the decision is no longer in their hands.
“It’s my decision now,” he says, gesturing back toward the room. “Now let’s go give her the news… Daddy.”
Newsweek has emailed the Democratic campaign for comment.
Nick Knudsen, co-founder and executive director of DemCast, posted the video on X, claiming that the ad “when tested, moves men under 30 more than 2 points away from Donald Trump.”
Newsweek notes that this data has not been independently verified.
Political action committee Defend the Vote partnered with Progress Action Fund to ensure the ad reaches key battleground states ahead of the upcoming election. “There are only a few days left,” the committee stated, urging viewers to “get out and vote to protect your freedoms.”
The ad comes at a crucial moment in the national debate over reproductive rights, just days ahead of the November 5 election. Since the Supreme Court‘s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, several states have moved to restrict not only abortion access but also contraception.
In mid-2022, Senate Republicans blocked the Right to Contraception Act, heightening activists’ fears about further incursions on personal privacy. That year, after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority reversed Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested revisiting the precedent set by Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case affirming couples’ right to use contraceptives.
Unlike in 2016 and 2020, Trump and many in the Republican Party have downplayed abortion as an election issue, asserting it’s less critical this time around and crediting themselves for “returning the issue to the states.”
The Democratic Party, on the other hand, has taken a strong stance, denouncing the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision as “an extreme act” with “devastating consequences nationwide.” Abortion has been a central theme for Vice President Kamala Harris, who has focused her campaign on this issue in key states like Florida, where abortion rights are on the ballot this November.
