The recent doxxing of signature gatherers is an outgrowth of increasingly aggressive tactics by anti-abortion groups.
Caroline Morgan, a volunteer with Progressive Arkansas Women, holds an umbrella to block anti-abortion demonstrators as people sign petitions at an event at the Saline County Library in Bryant, Arkansas, on April 13, 2024.
“The reactions have become more heated, from just a polite decline to, ‘I’m going to find you and kill you,’” said Gennie Diaz, communications director for Arkansans for Limited Government, the group heading the effort to add an abortion rights ballot initiative this November. “It’s escalated in probably the last four to six weeks.”in the general election.
“The purpose and the intent is to intimidate and dissuade people from participating in the democratic process,” she said. “And while this is alarming, this should actually reenergize and reinvigorate people to continue participating.” “I wasn’t scared as much as I was mad,” Tucker said about the incident. “Maybe in a good way. It was a good thing that happened, because now I’m mad, and I’m doubled down, and more likely to get out there.”
“The protesters like to target the women. … They like to target the women when they’re alone,” she added. “They want us to be scared. And the main thing for me is that it doesn’t scare me.” In another instance, Lowe said she was gathering signatures in a downtown area when an anti-abortion man started engaging with her in a hostile manner. Lowe tried to de-escalate the situation by packing up her materials and leaving for the day, but the man followed her to two separate restaurants.
“I’ve been called a murderer. I have had men with children come up to me and say, ‘This lady likes to murder babies. Do you want to murder babies?’ And the looks on these children’s faces, it’s heartbreaking, because they don’t understand what we’re doing,” she said.
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