Abortion Advocates Fume Over Dry Cleaner’s Pro-Life Coat Hangers: ‘Worst Marketing Decision Ever’
A pro-choice blogger is calling a dry cleaner out for the business’ pro-life messaging. Why, you ask? Because the anti-abortion advertising is being placed on wire coat-hangers. The blogger, Robin Marty, posted her thoughts on the RH Reality Check web site, an outlet devoted to upholding abortion rights, calling the action the “worst marketing decision ever.”
The decision by Springdale Drycleaners in Cincinnati, Ohio, to place the words “Choose Life” on the coat hangers is apparently nothing new. Marty describes the ad campaign in detail:
Springdale Drycleaners of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been etching “Choose Life”ads on wire coat hangers used to hang dry-cleaning.
What’s worse is that this seems to be an ongoing effort. Reports of the “choose life” coat hangers already were on the internet back in March of 2011, when Joe.My.God posted a picture of the hanger then. And before that on Regretsy in 2010. So despite over two years of attention, the business continues to think this is an excellent cross-advertising campaign. In fact, the practice was losing them customers as far back as August of 2010, but still the dry-cleaner continues to use hangers as a place to offer inappropriate propaganda.
As NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin said on Facebook, it’s a reminder of why we will never let them make us go back.

Photo Credit: LifeHacksImmediately (YouTube)/imgur
Obviously, some find the choice of venue for the advertising problematic, considering that self-induced abortions have purportedly been undertaken, particularly when the practice was not legal in the United States, using wire hangers. Despite the furor, Springdale Cleaners is sticking by its decision.
“I think it’s the perfect place to advertise a pro-life message,” owner Paul Dehler said in an interview with The Huffington Post.
Despite defending the action, he noted that he has no vested interest in the abortion debate — and that he placed the ads for his sister, who is a pro-life advocate. Dehler began publishing the ads six years ago when his granddaughter was a baby. While some customers dislike the hangers, that hasn’t swayed the owner’s actions.

A Yelp review from a customer who is less-than-content with the hanger design
“Some customers have said they don’t like the hangers, and in some cases I’ve lost their business,” Dehler admitted. “But I’d like to think that I’ve gained more customers with these hangers than I’ve lost.”
What do you think? Let us know in the comments section, below.
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(H/T: Huffington Post)
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Comments (157)
SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:17pmHey, you know what offends me? Killing innocent children.
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ykcpeggy
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:26pmAme!
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:32pmA big Amen from me too!
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DogTags
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:54pmGood people do not disagree on abortion. Good people come to the defense of those helpless children. Only barbarians and animals kill their young. People who support abortion are not good people. They are wicked.
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The_Jerk
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:00pmBest reply of the day.
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Go Glenn
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:02pmOh it is ok to kill innocent babies but its not ok to offend a few killers.
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The Third Archon
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:48pmHey, you know what offends me? Idiots who cannot tell the difference between a child and a cluster of cells.
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Onesimus
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:01pmHmm a cluster of cells as you so quaintly put it would have the same DNA as it’s host. It does not.
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by faith
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:07pmThe guy in the picture is mad because they cleaned the pachooly smell out of his clothes
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obfuscatenot
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:29pmYou know, I’ve been thinking about how offensive those for choice are and I’ve discovered I’m actually ‘pro-choice’ on deficit spending- because it’s an unborn tax. Let’s choose to abort the unborn taxes and keep the baby humans, that’s my ‘choice’.
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henryKnox
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 7:15pmI am really really confused. How is an ad with the word ‘choose’ in it considered ‘anti-choice’. They are simply lobbying for which side of the choice that they prefer. It actually sounds like it is very much a pro-choice ad. What is wrong with the Progressive mind? They don’t seem to use the brain that ‘God’ gave them. Maybe that is it, they refuse to acknowledge that they have a brain for fear that they will be considered hypocritical.
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Arnold_Ziffel
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 8:29pmGame, Set, Match
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Pontiaku
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:07pm⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧ ⇧
So, how many children have you guys adopted?
Secondly wow many welfare programs have you voted for and support?
Ayla_me
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:02pmIf this is the “Worst marketing strategy” ever…why do I…in an entirely different state know about it?? I think it is clever, actually. And if I ever DO visit Cleveland, I will get some laundry done there, for sure, lol.
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Scothantlas
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:04amYou know what gets me! How liberals are against executing violent rapists and murderers yet all for executing defenseless babies.
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scarydave
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:27amAmen Brother!
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Dr Vel
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:41amThe Third Archon “Hey, you know what offends me? Idiots who cannot tell the difference between a child and a cluster of cells.”
That would be you. A cluster of cells is the warts on your a55 I mean face. An unborn human being is still a human being. For thousands of years those cells have been coming out in 9 months as people, assuming they are not murdered by people like you. What this business does in their pursuit of income while promoting life even at great cost in lost customers, is none of your business and never will be. STFU and mind your own. Stop attacking others who believe in the sanctity of God given life. How ironic it is that all those calling returning troops from Vietnam ‘baby killers’ would end up being the worst baby killers in human history. As well, teaching their kids (those few they graciously granted life) to do the same as they. In the US alone abortion promoters have murdered more souls than all the death and destruction over the whole of World War II. God is the giver of ALL life. Only God has the right to decide. How small minded to think based upon their limited science that life is not alive, not a living soul and spirit, when the God that created it knows different. Judgement and hurt is here and increasing and the death toll upon the helpless innocent brings it more swiftly and to a greater degree than any other evil going on in this nation now or in the past. You are the doom of the greatest, freest nation ever to exist.
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Balzy
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:29am@The Third Archon
I’m sry modern science ed. fails you guys so bad… but it has been known for quite some time that it is infact a living being that is a super cute tiny lil alien-like baby. In fact doctors say it’s good for the baby’s development if you talk to them while they’re in the womb, i implore you to gather up some of your body’s ‘cells’. try talking to them and see if it improves them somehow, then you’ll see the difference ;) in my opinion, i go with the law of the land. It just doesn’t make sense to me, that they let people abort for convenience… i mean they came up with all these reasons why it ‘could’ be necessary, but then just let people go crazy with it. Even after it was proven that it is infact a person with their own heartbeat and their own DNA. when i say necessary, i mean like the baby has no brain, the mother and child might die, rape, not just cause of financial or public insecurity you know? You’d be surprised about how good medical science has gotten at saving the mother, but idk if it’s perfected. My twin died when I was born and my mom never told me about it, she told my wife and then my wife eventually told me. My mom never told me because some things are better left unsaid when you love someone enough, now that i’m older i wish i waited for the surprise in heaven. I’m saying this because there’s no way you could ever forget about some things, but that doesn’t mean you can’t except what life gives you and learn to love it.
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Balzy
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:06amaccept*
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:48amI am with you SQUIDVETOHIO!!!!
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jrc99
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:44am@The Third Archon
Like you?
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stage9
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:52amHey, you know what offends me? Is that stupid people often spout off regurgitated facts they’ve heard from murderers justifying murder rather than those who preserve life.
Biology is crystal clear that at the moment of conception, a unique organism comes into existence. Since this new life possesses human DNA and is the offspring of human parents, it can legitimately only be described as human life.
18 DAYS! That’s when the babies heart begins to beat and by 21 days the heart is pumping blood to the circulatory system.
Murderers will always attempt to justify their murder. That’s why we’ve built prisons, because they are incapable of using their conscience to distinguish right from wrong.
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:55am@THE THIRD ARCHON
You know from where I stand, you look like a cluster of cells with a keyboard. Get bent dude.
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Pontiaku
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 2:37pm[I’m sry modern science ed. fails you guys so bad…]
No, this is where it works perfectly well in defining what is a zygote, an embryo, a fetus, and a baby is. A “cluster of cells” is clearly anything that proceeds a fetus.
[but it has been known for quite some time that it is infact a living being that is a super cute tiny lil alien-like baby. In fact doctors say it’s good for the baby’s development if you talk to them while they’re in the womb,]
See this is where you people continuously fail in your vapid arguments and alienate fiscally conservative voters. You people go to great lengths not to correctly define what a baby is in your arguments because you know damn well or should know damn well that an embryo is not a baby. You people haven’t a clue when neurological functions come into play but luckily for the rest of us, not still living in the bronze age, science does know because they can measure neurological activity.
I’m sick and tired of this black and white abortion BS. It’s not BLACK AND WHITE. There is no Pro-life or Pro-Choice. Abortion comes down to the approximate time higher neurological functions are developing. The real question should be if a woman or a man should be sterilized for having too many abortions or children.
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Slammo
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 3:00pmCouldn’t have said it better myself! Right on!
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LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:29pmLibs love to come up with names that sound wonderful, but in reality, are disgusting. Pro choice sounds fine, but its got NOTHING to do with choice. Its all about killing babies. Then these morons have a problem when a company CHOOSES one of the choices they (libs) say they are for. So libs, is it pro choice, or pro kill the baby?
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IzzyKiddnya
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:54pmDoesn’t wrapping the wire in paper make it hard to use the hangar in its secondary role?
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:16pmYou know you did something good when it offends the lefties :-D
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:23pmI’m somewhat impressed that a liberal was having anything cleaned.
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Zipit
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:51pmThis is freakin hillarious !!!
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gary kilmer
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:02amthis is a Great idea
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hoff
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:20ami was feeling very liberal progressive today so i aborted my 8 year old son. 1 day or 8 years i see no difference.
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:15pmPolitical correctness needs to go away. His community will decide whether his business lives or dies, on his convictions. Until then, they can keep bringing it up and giving him free advertising.
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Dano.50
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:30pmHe’d have my business if I lived nearby.
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COFemale
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:13pmExactly where would a dry cleaner advertise other than on a hanger. People get so testy when you point out the fact they approve of murdering babies. Don’t want the message, don’t use the dry cleaner.
If I used dry cleaners, I’d frequent his establishment.
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bdandsl
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:11pmI love it and would go there just for that! If the left hates it, you know it’s the truth!
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TurboCat
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:30amA private business and too bad if they don’t like it. There’s a lot of things they’re not gonna like but I’d listen to them whine about every little thing a lot better AFTER they spend some time in a country like North Korea and learn about REAL things to be offended at first! Ungrateful malcontents do not deserve any sympathy! Spend a month in a gulag somewhere and you’ll get real attitude adjustment.
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Armyof One
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:10pmPeople with weak, tiny minds will complain about anything.
His property, his business, his advertising. If you want to be offended, look at yourself first.
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catty
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 7:33pmArmy
That is so rich coming from this site…
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rickc34
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:10pmHey baby killers don’t like the message ? To bad, choose life.
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Owt_Raged
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:09pmMy goodness, people will look for anything to be offended by, won’t they?
There is nothing “anti-choice” about the ad, it just says choose life. I could not see any text saying horrible things about people who chose to murder their children…
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:07pmI use Springdale Cleaners, they do a good job.
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Trapper20
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:05pmIf it’s not liked, those people can Choose Wrinkled Clothes
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ChildOfTheKing
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:13pmPersonally, as a follower of Christ, I do believe that everyone should have a CHOICE. However, I DO NOT WANT TO PAY FOR THEIR CHOICE and I DON’T WANT THEM TO FORCE ME TO (govt funding of abortions).
So, since every person has a right to choose between whether they want to serve Jesus or Satan (there is no in-between, SAYS GOD), then let them have their evil abortions. JUST MAKE THEM PAY FOR IT THEMSELVES WITHOUT TAXPAYER OR GOVT ASSISTANCE, then they can face God on Judgement Day and explain THE CHOICES THEY MADE, ALL ON THEIR OWN.
I AM SICK OF PAYING FOR SOMEONE ELSE’S CHOICE IN SIN.
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Trapper20
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:15pmsorry for the duplicate comment, first one disappeared for a while.
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CWPrequired
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:41pmChildoftheking- finish your statement. You believe everyone should have the “choice” to kill a baby and throw it in the trash can. Don’t buy the lie of “pro-choice”. They want you to think its about “choice” and its not. I don’t get the “choice” of killing who I want to, why should they?
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Go Glenn
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:11pmIn reply to the CHILDOFTHEKING”………..how can you be a Christian and still think that allowing someone the “choice” to kill is not important to your own salvation?
If you feel no need to defend the un-born then why do you support laws against rape?
How about laws against murder?
How about laws against anything?
If you feel that you have no moral “or spiritual” obligation to defend the un-born children then you have no moral authority at all.
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OBUMAURMAMA
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:05pmWas working O.R. @ Glendale Memorial years ago when a woman came in with the Ambulance ala wire hanger attempted abortion. You people think it’s wrong to do this to discourage hanger abortions, seem to be the same, that used to call us baby killers during the Democrat war in Nam while you’re filling trash cans with your aborted children.
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Tom K
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:05pmThe dry cleaning business will experience a more intelligent customer base as the liberal / pro-abortion customers continue to leave: kind of like seperating the goats from the sheep. There may also be an increase in God’s blessings for this business and family. Those cuatomers that are leaving allow themselves to be offended. Thinking / rational Americans are horrified that the unborn continue to be killed. May God help and forgive America.
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Ranger1967
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:31pmYeah, they say it until they discover the prices on one futher away from them than they live…
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TeresaJ
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:03pmIf more people cared more about America, and less about the bottom line, America would be a better place.
Kudos to the business owner.
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bhink73
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:03pmIf abortion were used for leftist only then I would be pro-choice.
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Keatonc33
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:20pmmy what strong convictions you have! I find it hard to believe a righty would have an abortion though right? that’d just be hypocritical!
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scarydave
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:35amBHINK73
I really like the way you think. Plus, if leftys are so against populating the planet with humans, why is it they don’t all go get sterilized. As a late night talk show host was famous for saying… “Things that make you go hmmmm?”
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The Third Archon
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:02pmNo, no–see, they only have to use coat-hangers when pro-life policies SUCCEED (so I guess it’s actually a brilliantly insidious marketing strategy, since demand for their hangers will go up if their policies are put in place). That’s a major positive point in favor of rejecting the pro-life position–fewer coat-hanger abortions.
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Starkadder
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:35pmSo I only had to use this knife because they took my gun away. Ahyuk! <=== Goofy's laugh
Of course I could have simply CHOSE not to kill someone. Hey that IS still an option.
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Hidethez
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:40pmExcellent point. They’re going to murder the unborn anyway, so let’s make it safe for them. They’re going to screw around on their spouses anyway, let’s make hookers clean and legal. They’re going to do crack anyway, let’s give them a safe environment and sterile needles (like Europe). They’re going to molest the innocent anyway, let’s…. Your thinking is depraved.
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richard the lion-hearted
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:21pmHey ‘Turd Archon’, it is quite telling of the state of someone’s mind (by sane people of course) when, as far as I know, a child, the most precious thing in life, what teaches us all maturity, selflessness, true complete love, that we protect and try to make the world better for THEM, not us (because of love and concern), yes it is quite telling when an adult would not error on the side of caution even if they truly didn’t know one way or the other (which is a lie, those who don’t know only don’t know by the lies of those false teachers of murder but in their hearts ALWAYS know). Some refuse to acknowledge their hearts beacause of selfish wickedness and these are they who lie and say they love life, protect it, and “care”. They are self-loathing, rightous-hating (because it calls into question their evil deeds), and in the gall of bitterness. The worst of us all, beyond serial killers, pychopaths, sociopaths…because they support the murder of children and are proud of it, they would support any sin in the end, infirm in spirit, ripe for the destroyer to sift them as chaff.
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hauschild
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:02pmAh, touche’ leftists!!! Stolen right from the progressive playbook.
This is beautiful on several levels.
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doomytram
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:00pmWhat are you going to do PC Obozo Leftist’s? Are you going to kill the dry cleaners, are you going to blow up the buidling? Are you going to sue the Cleaners? Obozo supporters don’t like something so they try to change it….Leave us alone Obozo’s we don’t care about your offense. Eat Feces and Die if you don’t like wire hangings, your disgusting Obozos.
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CanadaRocks
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:31pmHaving a good day are we?
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doomytram
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:04pmHaving a terrific day! Thanks for asking. An ad on coat hanger and the leftist projects that without abortion there would just be coat hangers. That’s offensive as are PC leftist’s.
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Trapper20
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:58pmI say to those against it : Choose Wrinkled Clothes
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:52pmAdvertising and messaging on coat hangers is nothing new – Dry cleaners do it all the time – for lots of different causes and issues.
It really doesn’t matter where the Pro-Life message is or how it’s delivered, obama’s bloodthirsty abortionists will always take offense. It takes a truly demented, irrational and unstable person to be offended by a message in support of HUMAN LIFE.
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naughtycal
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:08pmNotice the complaint called it anti-choice and not pro-life ….Yet another attempt to control the debate by changing the words. Pro choice advocates are anti-life for the most helpless in our society and almost always anti-death penality advocates at the same time. So the fight for the right to murder the unborn and fight of the lives of murders,rapist,and pediphiles
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00100111
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:52pmThis is ironic considering what the abortionists use the coat hangers for. Question for the libs, when you think of a baby with forceps jammed into its brain base, do you get sexually aroused? I’m guessing you do, and you immediately fap to relieve the arousal. You are truly disgusting creatures.
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Cavallo
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:50pmLikely he is correct, and the attention that the sick and twisted NARAL gives to them will only increase his revenue stream (Chick Fil A as an example).
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M13
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:29pmHe will be lucky if some tolerant leftist doesn’t firebomb his business.
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CanadaRocks
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:36pmYou mean like the abortion doctors that were murdered for providing a service to women that the woman asked for? You cons can spin anything cant you. How many pro life people have been murdered for their beliefs? How many doctors have been murdered for performing abortions? If the phrase itself means that there is a choice, why do people yell and scream at women at these clinics. It may not be the choice you would have chosen but it is their choice. What part of that do you not understand?
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M13
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 8:38pmI understand that people like you have no tolerance for anyone who does not agree with your view of the world.
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CanadaRocks
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 8:52pmSo you are unable to see that pro lifers act a little more radically? Its not a matter of disagreeing. Can you agree on that fact at least?
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Welcome Black Carter
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:33pm“How many pro-life people have been murdered for their beliefs”
Millions upon millions… babies are pro-life believe me.
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stage9
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:45amCANADAROCKS – Let’s look at the numbers shall we to compare the ratio of dead doctors to dead babies:
In the past 39 years, more than 49 million babies have been killed by abortionists compared to five abortion doctors.
Now, murder is murder no matter who is doing it, but let’s not try and compare apples to apples. It’s a bit dishonest. When you live by the sword, you often die by the sword.
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richard the lion-hearted
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:35pm@CanadaRocks
Seems you missed the whole point that the doctors were ‘killed’ for murdering and no justice being done upon them by an evil U.S. government, never has been the other way around, meaning (because I know pinheads like you need a carefully worded answer due to your complete lack of critical, deductive, common-sense reasoning) that a baby in the womb is the epitomy of innocence, no sin, no murder, no hatred…and you see fit to kill them and promote their killing.
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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:50pmIf you don’t like the hangers go somewhere else
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Aldaris
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:50pmThe double standards in this country are what is going to drive us deeper into this ‘cultural/cold civil war’.
More power to an individual putting out there opinion.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:49pmNow I got called all kinds of names for not supporting the NC license plate.
However on this one the business owner has every right to do this if they so choose.
If you dont like it get your damn clothes cleaned somewhere else.
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ykcpeggy
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:25pmIf you don’t like the Choose Life license plates in NC (where I live) then don’t buy one!!! They have license plates for everything else…Save the Sea Turtles, Shag dancing, Watermelon!! I can’t believe somebody hasn’t said watermelon is racist!! Why does it bother you if I have a Choose Life tag?
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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:35pmYK
Off topic. I wont defend my position again.
Merry Christmas!!!
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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:57pmYK
Oh what the he11.
On last time. The state prints the tag and the hanger is printed by a private company.
Put on a bumper sticker and your good. You still get your mesage out but dont use the state to do it.
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EyeofthePatriot
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:42amLOL your comment is ludicrous.
https://edmv-sp.dot.state.nc.us/sp/SpecialPlatesList?startLetter=S
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bigal8
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:48pmWhy the hate from the leftists?
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moreteaplease
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:03pmIt’s what they do best.
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