Thursday, May 19, 2011

Operation Rescue claims pro-choicers vandalized its billboard

Posted by Ben Palosaari on Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:00 PM

click to enlarge Vandalism is rarely the optimal way to make your point.
  • Vandalism is rarely the optimal way to make your point.

A Kansas anti-abortion organization is claiming that pro-choice advocates are being a bunch of sore losers in the wake of Gov. Sam Brownback's signing of a bill placing restrictions on abortion providers. Wichita-based Operation Rescue reports on its website that vandals defaced a banner on the group's headquarters.

The billboard advertises services and free pregnancy tests provided by A Better Choice, a clinic next to Operation Rescue's building. Although the timing is right for it to be a jab from pro-choice folks,

the vandalism doesn't look to be particularly political in

nature. Could it just have been bored Wichita teenagers? Operation Rescue clearly doesn't think so.



On the organization's website, the president, Troy

Newman, said, "Whenever there is significant progress on one of our

projects, or when

we are under attack by pro-abortion supporters in the news, we have

incidents of vandalism, in spite of all our security precautions."


The organization says it's the third time that the ad has been the target of

graffiti, and this time it needs to be replaced.

The bill that Brownback signed includes new

mandates for abortion clinics, including unannounced inspections and

the banning of telemedicine in administering abortion drugs. It also

requires that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment issue

licenses for abortion providers and create standards for lighting,

equipment and exits.

The new standards, abortion opponents hope, will lead to the state's three

abortion clinics shutting down.

Operation Rescue, famous for its trucks wrapped in unpleasant images of aborted

fetuses, targeted Kansas abortion provider George Tiller

for years. A phone number for Cheryl

Sullenger, Operation Rescue's senior policy adviser, who served

prison time for conspiring to bomb a California abortion clinic in the

1980s, was found in the car of Scott Roeder on the day that Roeder killed Tiller.


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"Kill" is such a political term.  Roeder just aborted Tiller.  You shouldn't say he killed him, just because you don't respect the decision that Roeder made with his or her own god.

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Posted by dcg2111 on 06/28/2011 at 8:05 PM

Neal Horsley, the same guy who admitted to having sex with farm animals?

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Posted by Doug on 05/24/2011 at 7:44 PM

The fact is the sign had been vandalized weeks before Brownback signed the new abortion restrictions into law.  Operation Rescue is only mentioning it now because they hope to portray pro-choicers as criminal and make some money in the process.  People are less likely to give money to Operation Rescue for a new sign if it's just a random act of crime (and they claim they need $5000 for a new sign, they aren't that pricey).

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Posted by Doug on 05/24/2011 at 7:43 PM

Rev Spitz thinks Olympic park bomber Eric Rudolf is a hero and counts horse fucker Neal  Horsley as a friend

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Posted by DAVID on 05/20/2011 at 9:51 AM

Rev Spitz is a fucking lunatic.

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Posted by mommadillo on 05/20/2011 at 4:13 AM

I can't enlarge the picture, can anyone else? What was done to the billboard? those white markings?  really hard to see the defacement of the picture or text or whatever...

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Posted by Dimchester on 05/19/2011 at 6:46 PM

buncha guys with womb envy posting here, looks like to me and every other autonomous female..lol

Love the Womb...hate the Human ROFLMFAO

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Posted by Dimchester on 05/19/2011 at 6:44 PM

No one's deflecting or diverting anything. Murder is illegal. Abortion is a legal medical procedure.

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Posted by Justin Kendall on 05/19/2011 at 4:45 PM

No matter how you try to deflect it or divert the subject - Rev Spitz is correct.

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Posted by DKM on 05/19/2011 at 4:33 PM

I have always considered those trucks to be a bit of a safety hazard. I'm curious to know if those trucks have ever caused any traffic accidents due to people being distracted by the picture of a giant aborted fetus.

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Posted by Andrew on 05/19/2011 at 2:28 PM

No. We phrased it right.

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Posted by Justin Kendall on 05/19/2011 at 11:54 AM

When write Operation Rescue is famous for its trucks wrapped in unpleasant images of aborted fetuses, don't you really mean images of unborn babies murdered by babykilling abortionists.

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Posted by Rev Donald Spitz on 05/19/2011 at 11:48 AM

So do we.

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Posted by Justin Kendall on 05/19/2011 at 11:26 AM

I get my Pro's and Anti's confused, too.

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Posted by tacitus on 05/19/2011 at 11:25 AM

The title says
Politics

Operation Rescue claims pro-lifers vandalized its billboard

but the article says that is was pro-choice people who vandalized a billboard. 


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Posted by Juan Carlos on 05/19/2011 at 11:01 AM
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