请问这句怎么翻比较好？

来源：百度知道 编辑：UC知道 时间：2024/05/15 04:11:52
When people were buying his propaganda and sympathy-yielding remarks, he cleverly took out a dove from a hat and denied publicly that he had ordered an abortion.

当人民被他的宣传口号与博人同情，赚人热泪的言论所打动时，他明智地摇身一变，公开表明他对自己以往制定的有关堕胎的政策持否定态度。

sympathy-yielding 直译为 产生同情心的
意译为 博得人同情的，赚人热泪的