Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, chairman of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives
BRENTWOOD, Tennessee, October 11, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Twitter backtracked on its decision to block U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Senate campaign announcement ad that mentioned the Planned Parenthood baby body parts trafficking scandal.
The social media changed its decision late Tuesday after it had flagged the Republican’s ad as “inflammatory” and “negative.”
Blackburn confirmed Tuesday night that Twitter will permit her ad to be promoted on the social media platform without omitting the Planned Parenthood reference.
“I think what has happened, the American people rose up,” Blackburn said on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum. “They are sick and tired of the liberal elites and the liberal media telling them what they’re going to listen to, and what is going to be pushed forward and broadcast and what is not, and in this example it was Twitter.”
Twitter had blocked Blackburn’s campaign announcement this week because in it she mentions her work investigating Planned Parenthood for its alleged harvesting and selling of body parts from children aborted at its facilities.
“I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts,” Blackburn
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