Okay, here's the gig. A used car salesman can't run an ad that he's got a great little low mileage Mercedes sitting around, then when you ask to see it it turns out to be a '74 Pinto. There already are plenty of laws regarding truth in advertising, that's what's at the heart of the legal matter in this instance, and to say that the used car dude was just exercising free-speech is ludicrous.

The law should decide if pro-life organizations are advertising themselves as pro-choice, because bait and switch is wrong no matter HOW you cut it. That the ACLU is waffling is a good thing. Waffling means dissenting opinions and it'd be COOL as all shit to see Conservatives having dissenting opinions now and again as well.

Anyways, Stop The ACLU is on the side of the baiters and switchers because they happen to be Christian groups that can do no wrong.

NO ONE is above the law. If they are in fact using deceptive techniques to drum up business then I could give a rats ass WHO they worship. This ends justifying the means bullshit is exactly that, and like I said, it'd be terrif to see some openminded Conservatives around who aren't marching lockstep just because their deity says so.

Sorry, but this hive mind shit really gets on my nerves. It's okay to think for yourself. Really.

ACLU: We Were For Free Speech Before We Were Against It

by Jay on 05-05-06 @ 9:03 am Filed under ACLU, Abortion, News

Jeez, these guys are starting to sound like John Kerry! First the ACLU came out to endorse it, then we got hopeful as they backtracked. Now, after studying how to get around it…they are saying it is likely the bill is Constitutional.

The American Civil Liberties Union has concluded after a legal review that a New York congresswoman’s proposal to regulate advertising by anti-abortion counseling centers is likely constitutional, officials with the civil liberties organization said yesterday.

Talk about flip flopping! Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, introduced March 30 the Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women’s Services Act (SDAWS), which calls on the Federal Trade Commission to bar pro-life organizations from advertising in ways that she deems “deceptive”. The law only targeted pro-life organizations, and seemed to give a pass on abortion centers with deceptive names like Planned Parenthood. What seems to bother her is that a pro-life organization calling itself something like a “Crisis Pregnancy Center.” NARAL Pro-choice America and the National Abortion Federation, are behind it. The ACLU also endorsed it, and that actually came as a shock to many free speech defenders. It even divided the house at the ACLU."