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They're ads you may have seen around New York City. They're supposed to be promoting storage, but they have a political and comical edge to them.

But their latest ad doesn't have too many people laughing.

Its billboards have always been edgy, but has Manhattan Mini Storage gone over the edge?

The ad causing controversy depicts a coat hanger and takes a stance on abortion, along with the slogan: "Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose."

Needless to say, it didn't take long for the backlash to come.

"These billboards, we think they're absolutely disgusting," said Kiera McCaffrey of the Catholic League. [..]

Manhattan Mini Storage often uses liberal messages in its billboards, reflecting the politics of a city in which three-quarters of voters picked John Kerry over George Bush in 2004.

Their latest ad, as shown in a NYC subway station shows a woman's body, wearing a Palin-esque suit with a button that says "Choice" with a circle and a line through the word, with the ad line, "What's more limited, your closet space or her experience?"

Personally, I like the coathanger ad. I think that image is a stark reminder of the dangers of letting the government take choices away from women. Abortions will not decline if they repeal Roe v. Wade, they'll just become more dangerous.



South Dakota Group Proves Choice=Pro-family

There are at least two anti-choice ballot initiatives this year, Prop 4 in California and Prop 11 in South Dakota. One expects a great many propositions on the always enormous California ballot, but the South Dakota proposition is pernicious, since South Dakotans voted on this issue (and turned down radical restrictions on reproductive choice) just two years ago.

The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families is at the forefront of proving just how intrusive and illogical these measures, which are purely an imposition of one religious position onto every citizen, can be.

h/t Beautiful Day Rule.