Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood tweets: 'We need a Disney princess who's had an abortion'
A Pennsylvania branch of Planned Parenthood raised eyebrows Tuesday after tweeting that Disney should widen its animated princesses to include one “who’s had an abortion” and “an undocumented immigrant.”
“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 account for Planned Parenthood of Keystone, Pennsylvania tweeted on Tuesday morning.
The tweet was deleted about two hours after being posted — but of course the Internet never forgets.
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Both Planned Parenthood Keystone and the national organization did not immediately respond to request for comment from TheWrap on Tuesday.
Despite its brief life online, the aborted tweet still came in for withering mockery, with screenshots rollicking around conservative media types.
We need a Disney princess who stumps for sex-selective abortions on the taxpayer dime then lectures us about what small children they would have killed should watch for entertainment https://t.co/957a8YQAly
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 27, 2018
@PPKeystone deleted a tweet about needing a Disney princess who's had an abortion.@Disney @DisneyStudios Thoughts?@WalshFreedom pic.twitter.com/CA9izEkZgH
— Corey E. Dunbar (@coreyedunbar) March 27, 2018
Next Frozen movie needs an abortion subplot https://t.co/VAFtzBbdH8
— Charlie Nash ???? ☭ (@MrNashington) March 27, 2018
we need a disney princess who beat the patriots in the super bowl
we need a disney princess who threw for 6 tds, 1 int and 72.6% completion in the playoffs
we need nick foles
buffalo bills, I am tweeting at you, please trade for nick foles
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) March 27, 2018
Here is the deleted tweet from the organization the GOP funds. pic.twitter.com/ltj0e1o2aY
— Alex Pfeiffer (@PfeifferDC) March 27, 2018
Earlier, Planned Parenthood suggested ‘we need a Disney princess who’s had an abortion’ and then they deleted it.
So, in case you missed it: pic.twitter.com/BQV5lBsVNi
— Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) March 27, 2018
In case you missed @PPKeystone's atrocious tweet about Disney princesses having abortions, here you go. Happy Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/C5v6inY8V7
— Brittany Hughes (@RealBrittHughes) March 27, 2018
Though Planned Parenthood says its focus ison women’s health, it’s not the first time one of its local affiliates have waded into more divisive cultural issues.
Earlier this month, a Kentucky branch drew scorn from actor James Woods and others for asserting that “some men have a uterus.”
No. They do not. pic.twitter.com/fVhebtnE7v
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 3, 2018
In the Trump era, Planned Parenthood has come under increasing political attack for providing contraception and abortion services, and has been the subject of a sustained campaign to discredit and defund the organization.
Last year, the organization was the subject of legislation giving individual states the ability to withhold funding from its programs.
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