People are sending wire hangers to a senator who they think is too soft on protecting abortion rights
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#HangersForCollins: the Twitter trend sending a message about protecting abortion rights.(Getty Images)
People are sending a warning to a senator whose stance on protecting abortion rights isn't strong enough for them.
On Wednesday, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, Republican Senator Susan Collins said she views Roe v. Wade — the ruling that ensures nation-wide abortion access — as "settled law."
"It's clearly precedent," she said on Wednesday when asked about her stance on protecting abortion laws. "I always look for judges who respect precedent."
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But on Thursday, her commitment to upholding Roe v. Wade seemed shaky. Her spokeswoman Annie Clark told the Portland Press Herald that Collins "always looks at their judicial temperament" and "respect for precedent" when evaluating judges, and then clarified that the senator "does not apply ideological litmus tests" to nominees.
Many viewed this as Clark implying that even though Collins supports "precedent," she wouldn't outright oppose nominees who were vocally against access to abortions.
That wasn't a strong enough stance for some Twitter users, who rallied together to mail clothes hangers to Collins' offices in Maine and Washington, D.C. as a dark reminder of the gruesome ways women sometimes dealt with unwanted pregnancies before abortion was legal.
This has gone viral on Twitter-- its Here:
#HangersForCollins
There's some biting satire there....Heh
Just like mailing teabags a few years ago, voters mailing a message
I think these sorts of actions (by either side) are a good idea.
There's so much political noise now-a-days that coming up with a creative (even if very unsusal) way to get their message noticed in many cases might be the only way to get people to listen to them...