From USA Today:
"Planned Parenthood called for Disney princess 'who's had an abortion' in now-deleted tweet"
"Planned Parenthood called for Disney princess 'who's had an abortion' in now-deleted tweet"
A Planned Parenthood branch in Pennsylvania called for the Walt Disney Co. to create an animated princess "who's had an abortion" in a since-deleted tweet posted Tuesday. Planned Parenthood Keystone, a branch of the health service provider based in Trexlertown, Pa., tweeted that, "We need a disney princess who's had an abortion / We need a disney princess who's pro-choice / We need a disney princess who's an undocumented immigrant / We need a disney princess who's actually a union worker / We need a disney princess who's trans". The tweet's construction riffed on a recently popular Twitter meme that imagines new animated princesses with traits serious and not. The non-profit Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — which archives snapshots of sites across the web — shows it stored six captures of the tweet on Tuesday. Planned Parenthood's national office confirmed the tweet and its deletion in an email to USA TODAY. “Today, we joined an ongoing Twitter conversation about the kinds of princesses people want to see in an attempt to make a point about the importance of telling stories that challenge stigma and championing stories that too often don’t get told," said Melissa Reed, Planned Parenthood's president and CEO. "Upon reflection, we decided that the seriousness of the point we were trying to make was not appropriate for the subject matter or context, and we removed the tweet.” The tweet triggered a slew of feedback online from users replying to a now-vanished post. Some took screenshots of the tweet before its deletion. "Disney princesses are for CHILDREN and these are adult issues," tweeted user @704heather, adding, "This far-out crap is why we got stuck with Donald Trump." "Exactly," user @KinseyHolley replied. "They have no idea how extreme this sounds (and yes, I'm pro-choice)." "Here is the deleted tweet from the organization the GOP funds," Alex Pfeiffer, a Fox News producer, said in a tweet. The Planned Parenthood Keystone account, which has 950 or so followers, had previously posted popular meme formats refitted to the non-profit's mission. One tweet shows a woman blowing a horn into the face of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The woman is labeled as "centering all our patients' lived experiences and uplifting their stories," while Emanuel represents "stigmatizing abortion and shaming patients."
^ Now the ultra-liberals can't say that it is only the ultra-conservatives or Trump that writes stupid things on Twitter. This has got to be one of the dumbest things I have heard in a while. I would assume that after this Planned Parenthood can expect to loose even more Government Funding - and this time it would be well-deserved. The National Planned Parenthood clearly needs to rang-in their local chapters. ^
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