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16. Lands End Caves To Anti-Abortion Pressure, Pulls Gloria Steinem Interview

Remember when they did this a while back? I said I wouldn't buy anything from them ever again after this. So this new news just confirms it.

Clothing retailer Lands’ End has issued a formal apology for featuring an interview with feminist icon Gloria Steinem in its spring catalog after backlash from the anti-abortion movement.

The company also discontinued a campaign that enabled customers to donate to the Fund for Women’s Equality, of which Steinem is a board member, Jezebel reports. As part of the campaign, consumers could order items embroidered with the the logo of the ERA Coalition, a group dedicated to passing an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution that would prohibit discrimination based on sex. Lands’ End planned to donate $3 to the fund for every logo ordered.

But this didn’t sit well with anti-abortion activists, who became enraged that the company would feature a woman who spent much of her life fighting for reproductive rights. (The interview itself did not feature any discussion of abortion.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lands-end-gloria-steinem-abortion_us_56cf2645e4b03260bf75aa00