Check out one of the mailers from the group supporting the South Dakota abortion ban. Just in case SD voters didn't hear their lies properly in the TV spot, the antis have been kind enough to write them down.
And clearly, their dirty tactics go way beyond the deceptive ads:
* Vote Yes campaign operatives are destroying literature from candidates that don’t agree with the abortion ban and replacing it with their own literature (Yankton)
* Abortion ban supporters are misdirecting voters to a bogus website called www.sdhealthyfamilies.net that says ‘We Support the Abortion Ban!’ in the hopes of confusing people with the Campaign for Healthy Families REAL website, www.sdhealthyfamilies.org.
* Vote Yes volunteers have been blocking traffic in several church parking lots and continuing to distribute literature after church leaders asked them to leave (Rapid City)
* Vote Yes signs have been placed on people’s property without their permission or illegally on government property (Sioux Falls)
Ugh.
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Oh. My. God. What insanely sleazy tactics. Don't we have some sort of legal recourse against these people for blatantly lying about what the ban does, and doesn't entail?
It gets sicker and sicker by the day. The depth of the illogic, the idea that these people think they are doing the right thing ... is utterly, completely baffling to me. I will never understand.
As disturbing as these tactics are, they don't really surprise me all that much. I used to be a clinic escort at Planned Parenthood while i was in grad school and saw firsthand how these people operate.
As disturbing as these tactics are, they don't really surprise me all that much. I used to be a clinic escort at Planned Parenthood while i was in grad school and saw firsthand how these people operate.
Is it too much to hope gor that these tactics could backfire?
I love it. They know people will never support a ban without these exceptions, so they just lie.
In a way they're admitting that their position is too extreme.
If our side can really get the word out, couldn't this backfire horribly? I would be PISSED if someone used such manipulative tactics on me, and would probably vote against a measure even if I agreed with it.
Yeah, the people trying to save lives are the bad guys...not the ones trying to ensure that women can kill their children.
What's the difference between one of you idiots and someone helping Susan Smith back her car full of her kids into a lake?
Yeah, the people trying to save lives are the bad guys...not the ones trying to ensure that women can kill their children.
Yes. See, we don't like slavery on behalf of saving "children" who would die rather quickly anyway without the life-support which they're essentially stealing.
What's the difference between one of you idiots and someone helping Susan Smith back her car full of her kids into a lake?
Said kids are out of Susan Smith---in essence, she's already had her abortion. She's no longer pregnant. (And you call us idiots.)
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