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The DC Abortion Fund has found a very clever way to trick anti-choice right-wing social engineers into using their outraged Twittering to help DCAF raise some serious cash, for buying abortions!
If you give the DC Abortion Fund $10 a month, youll get a tiny coat hanger, ideal for wearing as a pendant or neatly storing your pet hamsters tuxedo, which would also make a pretty cool pendant. Of course, for DCAFs tactic to work, the anti-choice crowd had to cooperate by totally failing to realize that the coat hanger is a joke at their expense that if they succeed in banning abortion, the old horror days of coat hangers and tumbles down stairs and thousands of dead women will inevitably return. So did they cooperate? Did they fail to realize that they are the real coat hangers? Oh Twitchy, did they ever!
Sick, sick, sick, moaned some person on Twitter, effectively mocking themselves. Monsters, spat another, whose fealty to a book of old desert myths motivates her to condemn the medical and life decisions of people shes never met. And then theres this guy, who doesnt like it either:
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Say, you know how a popular anti-choice tactic is to display huge images of bloody fetuses? And you know how a lot of GOP politicians want to force women seeking abortions to get invasive, medically unnecessary ultrasounds, to shame them into having an unwanted child, or at least make them feel extra horrible if they decide to abort after all? Apparently thats all fine! But Fortuna help you if you give away a tiny coat hanger.
http://wonkette.com/544473/abortion-rights-group-gives-coat-hanger-pendants-to-donors-furious-wingnuts-dont-realize-jokes-on-them
Google News marks this as satire:
Abortion Rights Group Gives Coat Hanger Pendants To Donors ...
Wonkette (satire)-1 hour ago
Whether or not this article is (and the pendant does appear here: http://dcabortionfund.org/donate/ ) doesn't really matter since the rw is up in arms
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Full post here: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/373630/dc-abortion-fund-offers-coat-hanger-pendant-donors-alec-torres
The DC Abortion Fund, a non-profit group that helps local low-income women afford abortion care, has been giving out coat hanger pendants to its donors for the past four years as a symbol of the dangerous methods women resort to when they are denied access to safe and legal abortion.
When the National Review discovered the pendants earlier this week, it set off a firestorm of conservative media outrage. Breitbart, The Drudge Report, The Daily Caller, former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain and Bristol Palin were among the conservative outlets and bloggers who piled on.
"I honestly cant believe that someone would celebrate the destruction of babies (boys, and YES millions of girls) as a fashion statement for feminists," Palin wrote in a blog post. "You know the phrase 'they wear their heart of their sleeves?' Well, I guess DC feminists love to wear death on their necks."
"This is either a very sick parody or a sad reality," tweeted Mike Warren, a staff writer at the Weekly Standard.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/dc-abortion-fund-coat-hanger_n_5008010.html\