A campaign to send wire coat hangers to Stupak

[Nikki Stone1]

Has anyone started one?

If not, should we?

[JuniperLea]

1. That's a great idea!

[Nikki Stone1]

3. If no one else has started it, we should.

I've got plenty of old wire hangers.

[JuniperLea]

7. Got an address?

I'll keep this thread bumped all week!!

I'm sure we all have at least a few... and the postage wouldn't be so much.

[Nikki Stone1]

10. SendACoatHanger.com

They are doing this.

[Nikki Stone1]

12. Or here:

2268 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
[phone]
[phone] - Fax

[DaveinMD]

2. yeah

there's a campaign to send coat hangers to everyone who voted for the amendment.

[Nikki Stone1]

4. Who's running it?

Link?

[DaveinMD]

8. see the email below n/m

[DaveinMD]

5. here's the email

Did these Democrats forget what happens when women are denied access to abortion?
20 pro-choice Dems voted for the Stupak amendment.
Send a coat hanger.

We're furious.

In a backroom deal brokered to get the votes necessary to pass the House health care bill, one amendment was allowed an up-or-down vote on the floor. That amendment, the Stupak amendment — which passed on a vote of 240 to 194 — is the most serious assault on abortion rights in a generation.

What's more, according to FiveThirtyEight.com, 20 of the 64 Democrats who joined Republicans to pass the measure are nominally pro-choice.

Sign the petition, send a coat hanger.

Why did pro-choice Democrats vote to approve the Stupak amendment? We're telling these 20 Democrats — all men — to reconsider their vote and urge Congressional leadership to do everything they can to ensure the health care bill that comes out of committee does not take us back to an era of coat hangers and back alley abortions.

Sign our petition and we'll send a coat hanger to the 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats who voted to take away women's rights.

If the Stupak amendment is allowed to stand, it would ban private insurers who participate in the insurance exchange created by the health care bill from covering abortion as a part of women's reproductive health care. Tens of millions of women would be affected.

These 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats need to hear that it is NOT ok to throw women under the bus when it comes to passing health care.

Back in 1992, Working Assets helped its members send coat hangers to Congress. Now, 17 years later, it's time to do it again.

Please sign the petition, send a coat hanger, and tell your friends about CREDO's SendACoatHanger.com campaign.

Sincerely,
Laura Scher, CEO of CREDO Mobile
Michael Kieschnick, President of CREDO Mobile
Becky Bond, Political Director of CREDO Action

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[Nikki Stone1]

9. SendACoatHanger.com Woohoo!!!

Thanks!!

[Nikki Stone1]

17. I just did it! SendACoatHanger.com

"Sign our petition and we'll send a coat hanger to the 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats who voted to take away women's rights."

DONE!

[DaveinMD]

18. sure

sometimes it helps to be on the all the political spam lists.

[Warpy]

20. I sent mine

and posted that link to a couple of humgous email lists.

It's been posted here before, but it certainly bears reposting.

It's a great campaign.

[MNDemNY]

6. I was beaten and spit on here for making such a connection.

Apparently I was being a "hater" . But, great Idea!, Bloody ones.

[Nikki Stone1]

14. Well, I'm not the most popular person here either

I guess I'm a hater too. :)

[MNDemNY]

15. My skin is thick.

My style is obnoxious. Oh, well.:toast: :thumbsup: :pals:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Since I did my EMS in a country where abortion is illegal

I guess I will send my rep a description of the three women I lost in the back of my rig... due to coat hangers.

I can get quite graphic too....

I've always wondered if there was going to be any meaning to those three tragedies, and ironically their country is starting to relax those laws. (Yes it is now legal in Mexico City and it is expected to expand, shall we say the Catholic Church and other conservatives are not too happy?)

[Nikki Stone1]

13. The Catholic Church exists only by oppressing people

2268 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
[phone]
[phone] - Fax

[FirstLight]

16. DONE!

posted a link on my FB feed too...the home page has the list of the fuckers too...

please repost this thread with the URL in the title ... it may get some more DU love and attention...(or start a flame war, whatever mood the forum seems to be in lately...)

thanks for the motivation!

[Nikki Stone1]

19. You bet.

I just did it too!

[Hekate]

21. I've received several emails about such a campaign. Link to CREDO...

CREDO Action
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/send_a_coathanger/?rc=chaser&r=5027&id=6701-1044848-HFzRa.x