During one counter-rally I attended several years ago, three teenage girls wielding pro-life signs and saying prayers for unborn babies crossed the street to a pro-choice activist holding the classic sign with the coat hanger and “Never Again” scrawled across the bottom. “What is the hanger for?” they asked. They didn’t even know.
That’s so sad Lauren. So many women are ignorant about their own history. š I hope that they never have to know…personally what it means. I hope we can stop this.
Even tho the depiction brings about some vulgar images, I defintely support this. I am appalled at how backwards we as a nation seem to be heading. -k-
I didn’t know, until I asked my mother. The closest I’ve ever seen to a media representation that depicted how badly an illegal abortion could go wrong was If These Walls Could frickin’ Talk. Women are not taught about this. I come from a blue state.
Heh. I noticed that too, Gordon. Apparently a lot of anti-choicers deny that hangers were ever or are ever even used, that it’s a myth made up by pro-choicers.
Well, damn. I couldn’t post my first comment. Server crashed. Try, try again. The country has fallen into darkness. Once a country or culture sacrifices reason and knowledge to mysticism and religious dogman, it will invariably implode. That is precisely what is happening in the US right now. I’m not surprised the anti-choice girls did not know what the hanger represented. After all, ignorance and obfuscation are the hallmarks of the anti-choice movement. All I can hope for now is that the pro-choice community gets off its collective ass and elects pro-choice leaders to reverse the current slide into oblivion.
Well, damn. I couldnāt post my first comment. Server crashed. Try, try again. Ahh, that’s what happened. The poster would be a bit more accurate if the hanger was unbent; this is the artist in me talking, but there’s no way the curvy part of an intact hanger could reach past the cervix. On the other hand, it wouldn’t be as recognizeable unbent. Maybe a normal coathanger, sans blood, and a partially bent one, with blood? That, and a darker shade of red, especially on the hanger where it’s covering dark metal and would be darker than the drops on the background. Even tho the depiction brings about some vulgar images, I defintely support this. Yep. Better images than reality.
Someone should check their facts. In order to use the hanger in an illegal abortion, you have to stretch it out. And collapse the hook. Fresh-from-the-dry-cleaner hangers wouldn’t work.
Why the dubious reaction to the coat hanger poster? After all the pro lifers have had no problem posting pics of dead late term babies plastered with blood all over the place. Here in my fine state of New Hampshire a state rep was decried for putting anti-abortion leaflets with such photos on cars parked outside a local elementary school. People were in shock. Then there’s another senator famous for waving a plastic ‘aborted baby’ on the senate floor during beginnings of the ‘partial birth abortion’ scare. They have succeeded to hijack the issue using hyperbole and sensationalism mixed with misinformation and religious dogma, what’s wrong with pictures of the truth about what will result when abortions are banned? The discussions that have arisen as of late seem to underscore how having safe and legal abortions for the last twenty or thirty years have led to collective amnesia.