How Doritos' Super Bowl Ad Kicked Off a Twitter Conversation About Birth Control

'Ultrasound' got consumers talking about abortion

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Doritos aired the final "Crash the Super Bowl" contest spots during Super Bowl 50. The first was a 30-second spot from Australia which features a pregnant woman getting an ultrasound while her husband munches on some Doritos—and things only get weirder from there.

The spot struck a chord on Twitter, kicking off a conversation about birth control and abortion. Pro-choice organization NARAL saw the ad as "anti-choice" because it "humaniz[ed a] fetus" while others saw it as an "abortion commercial." Still,

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