He did end up deleting that Tweet, but luckily the internet is smarter and faster.

Well, it certainly proves that they know people will keep doing this despite any law, and they want it to be more dangerous than it otherwise would be.

So no gay, no abortions, no contraception, no sex education—pretty much every conservative agenda has the end result of more and more babies.

So tired of our politicians kowtowing to Big Baby.

he is basically saying abortions should be more brutal for the mother and the fetus.

@3 omg kowtowing to Big Baby.

Well done.

What a repulsive human being.

While I disagree, I do understand why some people oppose abortion. But it takes a sick and twisted mind to gleefully toss around death via coat hanger as a joke.

Asshole.

Haha, it's funny because now more women will die. Conservative humor is hilarious!

You'd think a "celebrity" would know enough to not tweet when drunk.

Are women allowed to vote for state representatives in Texas?

When will people get with it? The best way to stop abortion is to improve birth control and sex education? These people are soooo very ignorant to really believe that if it isn't available, less people will do it. (Let's face it, they expect WOMEN to stop, but never men.) If they encourage better sex education, they can tell girls how to say NO and make it stick. And tell boys why safe sex is best. And why doing it in the ass or throat is UNSAFE. Instead of suggesting we buy hangers (the filthy creep) I suggest he invest in medical stocks: there will be a lot more cases of throat gonorrhea and AIDS now in Texas.

So, he's happy about coat hanger abortions then? Nice guy.

Pro-life=death

@11

I wouldn't be surprised if he was a coat hanger abortion.

@8 I'm willing to bet he's was only drunk on his own self-righteousness

As progress progresses, the regressive and the reactionary really start acting a fool. Note to Erickson: You're supposed to lie to cover up the fact that you're dead inside, not make sick jokes that prove it. Keep this up and your constituency is going to figure out that all you really feel for them is contempt.

Huh. I would have thought Gay Raindrop For Romney would have offered up some sad, twisted apologia for Erickson by now.

These people are not pro life. They are anti-woman!!
It's as simple as that.

He deleted the tweet and then "apologized" for it. http://groupthink.jezebel.com/you-know-t…

Does he even realize that he just instructed liberals to kill the unborn? Why are the pro-lifers tolerating that comment; they should be more offended than we are!

And 15 minutes later, here comes little raindrop to offer up some virtual fellatio for his rightwing hero.

@Raindrop, your post right there falls well within the 140 character limit imposed on tweets. And, really, a post on the internet isn't really a whole lot different, conceptually, from a tweet.

And your comment stinks, as do most of your comments. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this...

@19 Reading that apology... he just doesn't get it. He refers to coat-hanger abortions as "hyperbole." Like this is something that only occurs in moralistic stories, instead of the actual consequence of his actions.

18, print out that post, replace the word "tweet" w/ "slog comments" and tape it on your screen. Look at it before your fingers touch the keypads.

When I saw these signs in SLC I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a joke or not:

http://www.redhanger.com/userfiles/image…

I am still unsure.

@22 Nice. What's the emoticon for immature giggling?

From his "apology" - below. (I guess "kid" includes an hours-old blastocyst?)

My Sincere Apologies to the Kid Killing Caucus

I must offer up my sincerest apologies to the kid killing caucus that took it on the chin or other body parts in Texas last night.

After days on end of abortion supporters in Texas holding up coat hangers and then, yesterday, throwing feces, urine, and tampons in defense of killing kids, I tweeted out a link to a coat hanger wholesale store.

The kid killers were offended.

Now, I expected them to be offended because I was mocking their hyperbole. But they actually seem to think I was seriously suggesting some policy for the GOP.

I am so sorry. I forget that feminists and other pro-abortion activists really are as humorless as they are stereotyped to be.

In the future, I promise I’ll remind myself constantly you people really believe throwing tampons and raising coat hangers can stop the will of the people who overwhelmingly support prohibiting late term abortions. And I will act accordingly.

In the meantime, again, you have my apologies for offending you for thinking I was being serious instead of accurately realizing I was mocking you and your outrageous hyperbole and lies.

Yes, we feminists don't really find a whole helluva lot of humor in the whole "bending and shoving that wire coat hanger up our twats in a desperate attempt to Undo The Mistake and hemorrhaging to death in the process" thing. Um, sorry?

And thank you, Dan, for your outrage.

And thanks too, for once again pointing out the link between the fag haters and the women-haters. They are truly cut from the same cloth.

Nobody responded to counter @9 ? I thought it was one of conservatives' better arguments.

My take is that living in a conversative state such as Texas has an atmosphere that makes many women feel discouraged from or not confident enough to seek public office or advocate for reproductive rtights.

@3,

At first, when I saw "Big Baby" in your comment, I thought you were talking about Erickson.

I live in Texas. The GOP women fully support the soon to be new law in Texas. Generally the idea among these women is that there are plenty of birth control options readily available, and by 20 weeks all pregnant women should have made up their minds whether or not they want to keep the baby. Also, personal responsibility. And Jesus. Jesus is big here.

@36,

How do they square away the fact that the law is going to shut down all but five clinics in a huge-ass state? Or do they just pretend that's not going to happen?

@37 Simpler: they haven't been paying close enough attention to even know about it. Because Jeebus, and tl;dr.