Conservatives Enraged Over Pro-Choice Manhattan Mini Storage Ad

A Manhattan Mini Storage billboard on Manhattan's West Side Highway is again stirring up both opprobrium and approbation.

A large sign at 44th Street and Twelfth Avenue shows a wire hanger with the words "Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose."

An earlier ad for the company read, "Your Closet's Scarier Than Bush's Agenda."

The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, William Donohue, told The New York Sun the sign was "insulting and highly offensive." The president of a Manhattan-based nonprofit organization, Morality in Media, Robert Peters, said he did not know why the company would want to turn away a significant number of potential customers, such as immigrants from more conservative cultures. But the associate vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of New York City, Roger Rathman, applauded the billboard. "We think it's fabulous," he said. "We salute Manhattan Mini Storage for helping to make New Yorkers as aware as we are of the growing restrictions on reproductive freedom in this country."

Most Manhattan residents support abortion rights, a spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice America, Mary Alice Carr, said. She said it is great when a company wears "its pro-choice values on its sleeve -- or on its building."

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Mini Storage Billboard Aims At Abortion-Rights Activists

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brilliant!

Well, I find the ad offensive. I don't look to storage centers for political guidance. I respect the owner's right to his/her opinion and the right to express that opinion, but if I were looking to rent storage, I would avoid that place. For the record, I would also avoid a place that had an anti-abortion sign.

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I don't understand what's offensive. Women's right to choose IS rapidly disintegrating. Roe v Wade will be overturned in our lifetimes.

Betsy Donahue gets her panties in knots over the slightest provocation. She's more sensitive than an Iranian ayatollah with a fatwa in his pocket.

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madbrian, have you seen the voting patterns of Manhattan? It's savvy marketing. It's not like the company is worried about what Bubba Joe in Alabama thinks of their company, because he won't be storing his Roto-Tiller there anyway. Just like, as I was pointing out, they pander to the Jesus lovers in the South.

Calvin - I'm having trouble reconciling your mockery of Southern Bible thumping ads with your comment about the storage ad being savvy marketing. I find both offensive, and wouldn't patronize either. I don't shop for a pro-choice storage facility, just as I don't seek out a religious lawyer, roofer, etc.

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madbrian, you just don't f*cking get it! it uses scare tactics against pro-lifers (i.e. rethuglicans) and if you can't get behind that then you have no right to be on a broadway themed message board. how dare you even question this!?! you should be ashamed of yourself. get with the program or get the f*ck out!

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Calvin - fair enough...you find them both savvy, I find them both offensive...agree to disagree?

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I recently got a price quote from Throw Yourself Down the Stairs to Spontaneously Miscarry Piano Movers.

Dirt cheap.

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Well it certainly elicits a reaction whichever side you're on but it doesn't make me want to rent storage space.

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I'm conservative, and I could care less about that ad.

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I remembered the name of the book! It's National Sunday Law. Freaky thing just showed up in my mailbox one day.

National Sunday Law

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Updated On: 8/17/07 at 09:36 AM

I am in love with this ad. It makes me want to put some stuff in storage and have an abortion.

Love it!