There’s a new ad on the airwaves from a group who is unhappy with Jon Hansen’s zeal in attacking fertility treatment solutions for couples attempting to have a child, but needing a little assistance.
The SD Families for Fertility PAC has an ad running in conjunction with a website going after 2% Hansen for his stance on IVF over the years, including his attempts to make surrogacy a class 6 felony in South Dakota:
Since first taking office, Jon Hansen has consistently supported legislation that places legal, regulatory, or practical barriers in front of families seeking to grow through IVF, fertility treatment, or surrogacy.
Across more than a decade, his record reflects a consistent approach centered on three areas: limiting surrogacy, increasing government involvement in embryo decisions, and advancing legal definitions that directly affect how IVF works in practice. Each of these areas intersects with the ability of families to have biological children through modern fertility care. Learn more below.
That is a powerful attack.
For the life of me I can’t understand while public education hasn’t vigorously pointed out the fact that Hansen has repeatedly tried forcing SD taxpayers to pay for private school tuition.
This is a great ad! There are so many people that do t know this side of Hansens voting record. I’m pro life and pro family. There are so many people that deserve to be parents and for many that can only happen through ivf and/or surrogacy. This is probably top of the list why are cant vote for him. Along with his public school stance. I’ve always wondered how Odenbach can support this way of thinking when he has a beautiful niece by way of ivf and surrogacy. Boggles the mind….
Because Hansen’s and Odenbach’s whole brand is playing the victim to public schools.
That might help him more than hurt him, unfortunately.
He’s Catholic and wants to impose his beliefs on everyone else.
This was needed a month ago. Exposing Jon for who is really is: a hypocrite.
I get the strategy. Hansen doesn’t have enough money to try and refute what is the simple truth. This ad has shock factor. Go look at all the pro Hansen Facebook pages. Crickets. This one hurts them and they know it. Every other attack ad against him they go after foaming at the mouth. Not this one.
Hypocrite is completely inaccurate here. Jon’s views when it comes to IVF and surrogacy are consistent and logical – also compassionate. He’s not like democrats, whose arguments for why they support some things are the very same arguments that are used AGAINST other positions they hold.
If you want to throw out logical and consistent principled positions without knowing how they’re related, go support Democrats.
Hansen is once again taking credit for other people’s work. Just now on his fb page he shared a congratulatory letter from the White House on the passage of HB1056 (Primed by Rep Rehfeldt and Senator Davis) and HB 1044(Brought by DOH). These bills were voted against by mainly Freedom Caucus members but also many of Hansen’s endorsees (Liz May, Sam Marty, Hohn, Soy, Ismay). Jon goes on to take credit for these 2 bills and uses phrases like “I worked with the White House on Trump Policies to get these passed.” Most folks other than his stable of SAHMs see through his BS and taking credit for others work. Very disingenuous. Thank-you Taylor and Sydney for bringing this bill, you deserve much of the credit, not Jon.
What next? Jon Hansen helped President Trump negotiate a peace deal with Iran?
Apparently he could use the help.
More like help with the surrender that is about to happen when the US gives in.
Thea ads are getting put of hand, i’ve been stuck in front of the TV for 30 minutes with KELO on. Literally nonstop. The money being made is obscene.
Great ad.
My wife and I are three rounds into IVF with our incredible reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Keith Hansen. Unfortunately, he happens to share a last name with Jon.
For years, my wife and I have been trying to achieve something that feels like it should be one of the most natural things in the world: the chance to have a family of our own. Because of a simple genetic abnormality, that path is not possible for us without IVF.
After living through infertility, IVF has become a deeply personal issue for us. I have watched my wife endure more physically, mentally, and emotionally than I would ever wish on anyone. The appointments, the medications, the procedures, the heartbreak, the hope, and the cost, both financial and emotional, are hard to fully explain unless you have lived it.
I believe God puts people like Dr. Keith Hansen on this earth to help families like ours have a chance at something so many others are able to take for granted: raising a family made from our own DNA.
That is why I cannot understand how anyone would actively work against the very medical process my wife and I are fighting so hard, and paying an insane amount of money, to pursue.
For that reason, I will not be voting for Jon Hansen in this primary, and I will not support him in any future endeavors
Best of luck to you and your wife, Kevin 🙏
Would be cool if the opponent wasn’t pushing more of the same autocratic crap, but if that were the case, we wouldn’t be talking about GOP politics!
America’s future depends on ensuring that our birth rate doesn’t continue to drop. Couples resort to IVF because they have no other option. These people are great parents and they are often conservatives. The Republican party must embrace IVF just as Donald Trump has. IVF cannot solve declining birth rates all on its own but it can help. If we demonize the procedure like Jon Hansen, then all we are accomplishing is preventing good, often conservative, couples from having families.
I’ve never heard anyone demonize IVF. Placing limits on certain parts of the process is consistent with valuing ALL human life.
While I get the emotional side of the argument, in order to agree with much of what is stated here you have to abandon all logic and principles.
I’ve never heard anyone demonize IVF. Placing limits on certain parts of the process is consistent with valuing ALL human life.
While I get the emotional side of the argument, in order to agree with much of what is stated here you have to abandon all logic and principles.
Maybe if you’re forced to look into the specifics, people could inoculate themselves from being emotionally manipulated.
That ad hurt, didn’t it Jon?! Ouch!