NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn's Senate campaign announcement ad has been blocked by Twitter over a statement the abortion rights opponent makes about the sale of fetal tissue for medical research. 
 
 Blackburn, who is running for the seat being opened by the retirement of Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, boasts in the ad that she "stopped the sale of baby body parts." A Twitter representative told the candidate's vendors on Monday that the statement was "deemed an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction: 
 
 Twitter said the Blackburn campaign would be allowed to run the rest of the video if the flagged statement is omitted. While the decision keeps Blackburn from paying to promote the video on Twitter, it doesn't keep it from being linked from YouTube and other platforms. 
 
 Blackburn took to Twitter to urge supporters to re-post her video and join her in "standing up to Silicon Valley." 
 
 Blackburn was the chair of a Republican-run House panel created to investigate Planned Parenthood and the world of fetal tissue research that earlier this year urged Congress to halt federal payments to the women's health organization. Democrats said the GOP probe had unearthed no wrongdoing and wasted taxpayers' money in an abusive investigation. 
 
 The panel was created after anti-abortion activists released secretly recorded videos in 2015 showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they sometimes provide fetal tissue to researchers, which is legal if no profit is made. 
 
 Fetal tissue research has strong backing among scientists for its value in studying Down syndrome, eye disease and other problems. But Blackburn's committee report said fetal tissue "makes a vanishingly small contribution to clinical and research efforts, if it contributes at all," and recommended curbing federal grants for such research. 
 
 Blackburn's nearly two-and-a-half minute video features footage of her shooting a gun, espousing her "100 percent pro-life" credentials and taking fellow Republicans in the Senate to task for failing to repeal the Obama health care law. 
 
 "I know the left calls me a wingnut or a knuckle-dragging conservative," she said in the video. "And you know what? I say that's all right. Bring it on." ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201710/186/1155968404_5599002365001_5598963550001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Twitter pulls Blackburn Senate ad deemed ‘inflammatory’ 
 
 Twitter is barring a top Republican Senate candidate from advertising her campaign launch video on the service because a line about her efforts to investigate Planned Parenthood was deemed “inflammatory.” 
 
 GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is running to replace retiring Sen. Bob Corker, launched her campaign last week with a video proclaiming herself “a hard core, card-carrying Tennessee conservative.” In her announcement video, she boasts: “I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts. Thank God.” 
 
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 Twitter decided the line violated its ad policies, according to an email obtained by POLITICO. The video is still on Twitter, but the campaign is barred from paying to promote it. 
 
 "The account is not suspended, nor are the organic Tweets the account has sent containing the same video from the promoted Tweets," a Twitter spokesperson wrote in an email. 
 
 The line refers to her work leading a House select committee investigating Planned Parenthood following a 2015 controversy in which videos shot by undercover conservative journalists appeared to show the group profiting from the sale of fetal body tissue. Democrats have argued the panel’s inquiry was a waste of taxpayer funds, intended to concoct a reason to shut down the group. 
 
 Planned Parenthood consistently denied wrongdoing and never faced criminal charges. 
 
 “It appears that the line in this video specific to 'stopped the sale of baby body parts' has been deemed an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction,” a Twitter employee wrote to two employees of Targeted Victory, a digital GOP consulting firm working for Blackburn’s campaign. “If this is omitted from the video it will be permitted to serve.” 
 
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 On Monday, Blackburn took aim at the social media network in a fundraising email. 
 
 “This is urgent. I’m being censored for telling the truth,” Blackburn wrote. “Twitter has shut down my announcement video advertising. Silicon Valley elites are trying to impose their values on us. When I talked about our legislative accomplishments to stop the sale of baby body parts, they responded by calling our ad ‘inflammatory’ and ‘negative.’” 
 
 Blackburn is the leading candidate to replace Corker, with former Americans for Prosperity state director Andy Ogles also in the race on the GOP side. Army veteran James Mackler is running as a Democrat.
– Conservative congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is running for the Senate, and her entry into the Tennessee race has gotten more attention than anticipated thanks to a decision by Twitter. The company blocked a video ad in which Blackburn declares, "I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts. Thank God." Twitter informed the campaign that the reference to "baby body parts" was too volatile and that it would have to be ditched if the ad were to run, reports the Tennessean. Blackburn, who is running to replace the retiring Bob Corker, is instead trying to use the decision in her favor. "This is urgent," she wrote in an fundraising email to supporters, per Politico. "I’m being censored for telling the truth." She also called out "Silicon Valley elites" in the message. While Twitter won't allow the video to be used as a paid ad, Blackburn can still keep it on her Twitter campaign page. The line in question is in reference to a 2015 controversy involving Planned Parenthood in which an anti-abortion group accused it of selling "baby parts" based on undercover recordings. Blackburn led a House panel investigating the incident, which Democrats called a waste of time and taxpayer money, per the AP. It was never shown that Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue for a profit, which would be illegal, and the group faced no charges. Blackburn's panel recommended that the federal government stop funding the group. "I know the left calls me a wingnut or a knuckle-dragging conservative," Blackburn says in the video. "And you know what? I say that's all right. Bring it on."