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Posted: 2022-10-03T12:46:50Z | Updated: 2022-11-03T17:43:18Z

Former Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) has made support for abortion rights a central part of his campaign to retake New Yorks 11th Congressional District from Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), who unseated him in 2020.

But on Tuesday, Roses campaign is due to take its attacks on Malliotakis abortion rights record to a new level with a simple, hard-hitting television advertisement accusing Malliotakis of endangering pregnant women.

Roses 30-second spot, Coming Home , opens with a black screen as the narrator says, Im sorry theres nothing we can do for her. We then see the back of a mans head, sitting in the drivers seat of a car, overlaid with the sustained beep of a heartbeat flatlining. The mans wife, we are led to believe, died in childbirth because she could not receive an abortion for health reasons.

After the widower returns home, he sits on his bed with his back to the camera. Text appears on screen saying, Nicole Malliotakis voted to let states ban abortions with no exceptions.

Then, as the man turns off the light in his room, a second line of text pops up beneath the first: Even if it means the mother will die.