Your Depressing Anti-Choice Propaganda Digest
LatestMississippi’s “personhood” push combined with a wave of abortion restricting laws across the country seems to have emboldened anti-choice protesters. Let’s take a quick, awful peek at how the other half thinks. Not surprisingly, their tactics are nuttier than a squirrel orgy.
Operation Rescue, the anti abortion terrorist group that incited the murder of Dr. Tiller and encouraged its members to seek out an anonymous abortion doctor’s mother for, I don’t know, a civil game of Scattergories, has decided to up its political involvement by sponsoring several political candidates.
The Star Tribune reports that Operation Rescue lap dog Gary Boisclair is mounting a primary challenge in in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, a heavily liberal neck of the woods, against incumbent Keith Ellison, a liberal Democrat and the US House of Representative’s first Muslim. Operation Rescue’s game plan is to inundate the district’s constituents with graphic commercials featuring gory images of abortions.
Operation Rescue’s president, Randall Terry, plans on airing a similarly graphic campaign ad during next year’s Super Bowl, this time in support of his Presidential campaign (in other news, Rick Perry is not the scariest person running for President). When asked if he thought he or any of his candidates had any chance of winning, he replied that winning wasn’t the point. The point is forcing people to look at a legal medical procedure that, like most legal medical procedures, is sort of stomach churning to watch. This is as effective a rhetorical technique as an anti-heart surgery lobby (“Heart surgery stops a beating heart!”) airing similar images of a medical procedure in order to convince people that it’s gross and therefore bad.