Earlier this year I wrote about the Manhatan Storage anti-abortion ads that were around Manhatan. Well, Manhattan Storage is taking their support of choice even further as they are donating a total of $200,000 to 5 NYC charities one of which is Planned Parenthood of NYC.

 and visit http://www.plannedparenthood.org/nyc/ for ways you can help Planned Parenthood continue to provide the highest quality family planning and reproductive health care to women, men, and teens across the country.

As a stand-up comedian I’d like to think I have a good sense of humor and I’m fairly certain that WayOutTV’s Abortion Man video is not funny. It’s sick. It’s sad. It’s not however funny. It’s also on a site created by Damon Wayans. You know Damon Wayans? He had that lovely family oriented show called “My Wife and Kids”? Well now he has a site that embraces videos about attacking women and involuntarily killing their unborn kids. Classy.

I’d post the video here but I refuse to give it anymore face time. Essentially the hilarious sketch goes like this:

Basically, a young guy gets a call from his girlfriend, who reveals that she is pregnant. The guy mutters “Get rid of that sh*t,” but then tells the young woman in question he’s “enthused about the whole situation.” He hangs up the phone, and, Ã la Superman, runs to the window and yells “Help!” Enter Abortion Man, who wears a T-shirt displaying a fetus with a line through it. Abortion Man comes to the rescue by accosting the young woman in question, saying “Ah-hah! I have you now, fiend!” and then punching her. In the belly. When she falls to the ground, he stomps on her. And a bloody fetus flies out, into the bushes. [Salon.com]

The video is not even pro-choice or pro-life, it’s just disappointing and gross.

I first heard of this horse sh*t thanks to good ol’ Jezebel that shares this insight:

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Anti-abortion advocates spun the theme from the kids flick “Horton Hears a Who!” to support their cause. The films motto: “After all, a person is a person, no matter how small” has now become some sort of pro-life proclamation causing protesters to rally at movie’s Hollywood premiere.

All hell broke loose at the Hollywood premiere of “Horton Hears a Who!” today when a group of pro-lifers infiltrated the screening, then chanted anti-abortion slogans after the flick.The stars in attendance included Victoria Beckham and her three kids, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, Steve Carell and all 12 contestants from “American Idol.”

After the chanting ended, the group put red tape over their mouths that said “Life” on them, and paraded around the event.

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I love it when women say dumb things about being a woman.

Feministing noted that former state Rep. Sue Burmeister from Georgia in a debate about why women who want abortions should have sit through a state-written lecture about how terrible it is and wait 24 hours before obtaining the procedure: “Women are intelligent, but when you’re emotional, you’re not thinking with the right part of your brain.”

Really Sue? A young teen who is carrying her rapists child needs to think about things more intelligently for an extra 24 hours?

For more on reproductive rights visit http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/

Soooo perhaps I’m a bit late in commenting on this but has anyone seen this Manhattan Mini Storage ad on the West Side Highway (near 42nd Street)?
Honestly, I’m surprised it’s up. After doing some research I found plenty of articles discussing how offended anti-abortion groups were by the ad. But what about pro-choice people? Are any of them offended?Because I’m pro-choice and I find the billboard to be quite tacky. I mean, I guess its great that a company is using it’s visability to point fingers at a social problem but the image of wire hanger? Really? It just makes me squrim. It also seems lame to associate abortion rights and closet space. Isn’t there a better way to address the issue of abortion rights?Then again, the idea of a woman’s rights being taken away is so obscene, perhaps some feel as though the only way to argue the pro-choice point is with obscenities as well.To learn more about abortion rights visit http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/.

Looks like some Canadian hockey fans may have been mislead with their  donations. A third of the donations given to this year’s $50,000 Christmas Tree raffle sponsored by The Better Halves, are being given to First Place Pregnancy Centre, an Ottawa anti-abortion group run by Pentecostal Christians.These centers boast themselves as pregnancy crisis centers but are anti-abortion, a fact which many donors are unaware.For more on abortion rights visit http://www.naral.org/