House Democrat Eric Swalwell’s Ad Features Woman Arrested at Gunpoint for Abortion: ‘Elections Have Consequences’ (Video)

California congressman Eric Swalwell is offering voters a bleak outlook on the future if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections. A new digital ad he released this week depicts a family left traumatized when their matriarch is arrested at gunpoint for a previous abortion.

Swalwell, who has served as a Democratic U.S. representative for California’s 15th congressional district since 2013, debuted the ad on “The Reid Out” on MSNBC Monday night, which, as Joy Reid explained, “presents one possible chilling outcome of our post-Roe future.”

In the ad, a family is sat down for dinner, with the eldest daughter griping about her parents openly flirting with each other while feeding their baby. But, as the couple kisses, police lights are seen pulling up to the house in the background.

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When the mother answers the door, the cops explain that they’re there to arrest her for “unlawful termination of a pregnancy.” Though the woman protests that “that is my personal business,” the cops bluntly tell her, “That’s for the courts to decide,” and that her medical records have been subpoenaed and her doctor has already been taken into custody.

When one of the officers tells Mary that “you will have to submit to a physical examination” — without explaining who exactly will do that examination — her husband steps up to the men to defend her, prompting the two officers to draw their guns on the family, and chaos erupts.

As the infant cries and the older daughter plugs her ears and hides behind her father, the woman is handcuffed and taken away, with the simple explanation that, “We’re just enforcing the law.” As the action passes, a message pops up saying, “Elections have consequences,” followed by, “Stop Republicans from criminalizing abortion everywhere.”

In explaining the ad to Reid, Rep. Swalwell said that though it might seem like a heightened scenario, it is a real possibility.

“I wanted it to be clear that no police officer wants to be in this position. And for the officer to say ‘Ma’am, we’re just doing our job,’ that’s the horrible position we’re going to put law enforcement in,” he said. “I wish this was an exaggeration, but this is going to be the new reality in MAGA America if we do not win the midterms in both the House and Senate.”

You can watch the ad in the video above.

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