Some news outlets -- I mean, The Huffington Post had a headline that said the end of Roe -- and there was a picture of a coat hanger -- of a coat hanger.
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A female saint dressed in red, clutching a coat hanger.
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She attempted to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger.
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For them, the coat hanger may yet make a terrifying comeback.
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"He attacked me with a coat hanger," Rabbi Savitsky recalled last week.
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Court reports say he was grabbed and anally raped with a coat hanger.
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We know well the history of the coat hanger and the knitting needle.
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Similarly, in his drawings Hladisch turns a coat hanger into a little boat.
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There were more long black robes and vaguely sinister coat-hanger-shoulder suits.
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The baby survived though his lungs and eyes, were permanently damaged by the coat hanger.
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Are we really headed toward the pre-1973, coat-hanger-and-back-alley dark ages?
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Lois Frankel holds up metal coat hanger when discussing Kavanaugh and potential for Roe v.
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" There were tens of thousands of searches looking into abortion by herbs like parsley or by vitamin C. There were some 215,244 searches looking for directions on coat hanger abortions, including about 21,4.13 for the exact phrase "how to do a coat hanger abortion.
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There was no crack to slide a coat hanger like a car thief in a movie.
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But then to engage in what I am going call coat hanger politics I think is apocalyptic.
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Even then, a full-fledged return to an era of back-alley, coat-hanger abortions seems improbable.
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Self-managed abortion in 2020 doesn't involve a coat hanger or receiving care from an unlicensed provider.
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The specter of the back-alley abortion and the imagery conjured of the coat hanger have loomed large.
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Thanks for the reminder of years spent extracting mangled payroll checks from printers with a straightened coat hanger.
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If the coat hanger barrage fails and Collins votes for Kavanaugh, activists have another plan up their sleeve.
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That aside, who doesn't want to hear about a man who shoved a coat hanger up his ass?
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A team trainer had to attach a coat hanger to a long piece of string to fish it out.
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In Tennessee, Anna Yocca was charged with attempted murder for trying to end her pregnancy with a coat hanger.
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Pelicans 110, Knicks 96 Derrick Rose's white No. 25 Knicks jersey hung from a coat hanger, pristine and unwrinkled.
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He stood by his bizarre code of honor, one that frowns on public assistance in favor of the coat hanger.
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I put a piece of silk on the end of a coat hanger, and I dragged it through the water.
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"I never thought I would hear of a coat hanger abortion in my medical life," wrote OB-GYN Jen Gunter.
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Yet, even with these major advances, the idea that "coat-hanger abortions" are a thing of the past is misguided.
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His sports jacket was hanging neatly on a coat hanger over the back door — he was ever the ready salesman.
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He takes a coat hanger fashioned into a long hook and reaches into the new hole, pulling the line through.
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Maya spends her entire session deflecting intimacy by cracking jokes and wearing a jacket while it dangles from a coat hanger.
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To be sure, it's shocking to see a new case of a "coat hanger abortion" — the symbol of pre–Roe v.
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Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon's tool called polypus forceps.
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"I'm alarmed that five men will take us bad to these days, I call them days of coat hanger medicine." pic.twitter.
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Anna Yocca, 33, attempted to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger in bath tub when she was 24 weeks pregnant.
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Like he's unfolded a coat hanger, and he's trying to hook his keys up from a coffee table a few feet away.
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So instead of risking their lives with back-alley procedures or at-home coat-hanger abortions, many women came to New York.
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THE SECRET GUESTS By Benjamin Black It's an occupational hazard of royalty: becoming the coat hanger on which fictional mantles are hung.
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The several hundred coat hanger spikes are inserted into each of the sculptures, making for a raw depiction of a profoundly violent act.
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West Virginia, where the coat hanger-celebrating Barber is a councilman, is one of seven states which currently have just one abortion clinic.
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We pretend to be scandalized by the phrase "coat-hanger abortion," but in the end it is a punch line in a party game.
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Many of the earlier generation of activists had been survivors of the coat-hanger era and they spoke out as a warning: never again.
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Then, the internet caught onto our plight and suddenly a lot more people had opinions about whether or not I'd tried a coat hanger.
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She also allegedly told Holli she did not want her to have James's baby, and that James would abort the baby with a coat hanger.
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From a pot-sized shelf to a coat hanger that can double as a wine rack, click through to peep (and shop) our favorite finds.
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In May, a group of white high school football players in Idaho were charged with sexually assaulting a Black, disabled teammate with a coat hanger.
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Even though abortion is legal, one woman in Indiana was recently charged with first-degree murder for trying to give herself a dangerous coat hanger abortion.
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So we decided to go down there and we took some signs with these drawings of a big coat hanger going through a baby's ears [laughs].
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I think one of the reasons the coat hanger imagery has resurfaced is that many people are concerned about the future of abortion rights in this country.
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About 45 minutes later, I'm watching someone on YouTube use pliers to mold a metal coat-hanger into a specialized tool, just to release the logic board.
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In that room on a recent day, a 7-year-old girl ate spaghetti for lunch using the end of a plastic coat hanger as a utensil.
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When he thought of her cracking open the station wagon with a coat hanger and getting the gun out of the glove compartment, he shook his head.
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The staff wore roller-skates, the lines were around the corner, the princess would be on the floor getting her skirt zipped up with a coat hanger.
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A protester holds a coat hanger as an emblem of the pro–abortion rights movement during a protest against the controversial "heartbeat bill" in Columbus, Ohio, on Dec.
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Three high school football players have been accused of sexually assaulting their teammate with a coat hanger in the locker room of Dietrich High School in rural Idaho.
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GoYoga yoga mat — $12.99 See Details We're pretty sure every home treadmill has now transformed into a coat hanger, but we promise that won't happen with this one.
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Fearing the possibility of a post-Roe United States, some advocates — including those who help run clinics — are working to exorcise the bloody specter of the coat hanger.
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"People who aren't steeped in this knowledge still see self-induced abortion as involving a coat hanger," Arrambide, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, said on Monday.
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The next time his teammates ganged up on him, James would end up at the hospital—a different one this time—for rectal injuries inflicted by a coat hanger.
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"I don't want to ruin it," Hatton said with a giggle, "and with the celebrations that will occur tonight, I think it's best to put it on a coat hanger."
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In December 22005, a 2005-year-old Tennessee woman, Anna Yocca, was charged with attempted first-degree murder for allegedly trying to use a coat hanger to end her pregnancy.
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Scattered around were plastic beer cups, an empty corn-chip bag, a cigarette butt, a wire coat hanger, and a rusted metal tube that had broken off a deck chair.
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Sharon Wood had packed it away in 1973 as a relic of a battle fought and won: the image of a black coat hanger, slashed out by a red line.
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The hug was a maneuver—a trick to get James into a position, according to court papers, bending him down, while another teammate forced a coat hanger into his rectum.
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I lived most of my days there, visiting exotic animals and collecting butterflies and other insects with a net that I had fashioned from a broom handle, coat hanger and cheesecloth.
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According to the documents, on April 21, 2016, Graham allegedly beat the girl to death with a plastic coat hanger on and a belt after she had an accident on his bed.
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After winning the first marathon on the current five-borough course, Bill Rodgers winced in pain when the wreath was placed on his head; the jagged coat hanger tips scratched his skull.
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"The optics of a woman using a coat hanger—people have a gut-level, emotional reaction to that," said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel for the Self-Induced Abortion (SIA) Legal Team.
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Unscrew the gasket to the pivot rod to dislodge the sink stopper, pull the stopper out from the top of your sink, then use a coat hanger to pull up the hair.
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It's not clear what injuries Yocca's child sustained from the coat hanger itself, but his reported health problems are consistent with the health problems you'd expect in any baby born that prematurely.
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Imagine if those old coat hanger pins warning against unsafe abortion were replaced by pins with pills on them to show that we have access to this medicine and can help others?
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We're no longer living in the age of the back alley or the bloody coat hanger, both of which are symbols that inadvertently reinforce the cultural myth that abortions are inherently violent and risky.
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Some of those effects are beginning to be seen, like in the case of the Tennessee woman who pleaded guilty to a felony for attempting to induce miscarriage with a coat hanger in her bathtub.
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Yocca has not talked to the media or spoken publicly about why she did what she did, during court proceedings invoking her right to remain silent—but a coat hanger is no one's first choice.
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The use of coat hangers is also a particularly chilling reminder of the country's all-too-virulent abortion wars, in which the coat hanger has become a national symbol for dissent against regulating women's bodies.
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Whether we're marching with coat-hanger posters or passing laws that outlaw the procedure earlier and earlier, we fight over abortion in the United States as if we know what will happen if it's banned.
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A fellow councilman has since come forward to say that Barber's post was a callback to an incident in Washington earlier this autumn, when a pro-choice activist threw a coat hanger in his face.
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Demonstrator Hannah Friedman, a George Washington University student, held up a coat hanger with #WeWontGoBack scribbled across the front, a reference to how unsafe abortions were performed before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.
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But whereas that once meant using a coat hanger or other crude, DIY instruments to end a pregnancy, the advent of abortion pills means self-managed abortion no longer carries with it the same health risks.
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I've done some interesting mods over the years when something breaks in the middle of a set, like with a kick drum I've had a linkage break and had to have someone go find a coat hanger.
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The reason I put that language in there was because I felt that—even with it being a coat hanger abortion—a whole generation of young people, and women especially… wouldn't understand what [the illegal abortion] was.
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But those cases do sometimes still happen in the US. Most notable in recent years was the case of Tennessee woman Anna Yocca, who was charged with three felonies for attempting to self-induce using a coat hanger.
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State and local prosecutors say that several white football players bullied and brutally assaulted a mentally disabled black teammate in a locker room that October day, shoving a coat hanger into his rectum while other boys held his arms.
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A Tennessee woman jailed for more than a year after trying to use a coat hanger to abort her 24-week-old fetus pleaded guilty on Monday to one felony count in exchange for her immediate release from jail.
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The couple took their vows in front of family and friends gathered on the structure dubbed the "coat hanger", 134 meters (439 feet) above the city's main harbor, two days before the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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On another ceramic, "Untitled (Stocking Vase)" (1980), which is primarily white with an orange stripe at the top and near the bottom, the artist has depicted a pair of stockings draped over a coat hanger — a meeting of domesticity and the erotic.
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A Tennessee woman who is accused of trying to abort her fetus at 24 weeks with a coat hanger last year is facing new felony charges, in a case that has raised concerns among some abortion-rights advocates over strict abortion laws.
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Ms. Yocca remained in jail until prosecutors charged her with three new felonies in November: aggravated assault with a weapon — in this case, a coat hanger — and two laws enacted in the 19th century, attempted criminal abortion and attempted procurement of a miscarriage.
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"When you say a self-managed abortion, people think about a coat hanger or a back-alley abortion," said Abigail R. A. Aiken of the University of Texas at Austin, who has studied the safety of self-managed abortions and the reasons women choose them.
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Currently, that stigma means many people still may worry about the safety of the method, despite evidence to the contrary, and may have internalized the outdated imagery of the coat hanger, which suggests that abortion outside of a traditional clinic context must always be sketchy or dangerous.
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The image of a coat hanger abortion is intentionally visceral, but I found myself upset for another reason: Earlier this month, a woman in Tennessee was convicted on a felony charge after she perforated her own womb with a clothes hanger in an attempt to induce a miscarriage.
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They pointed to a recent case in Idaho, where a white high school football player was charged with shoving a coat hanger into the rectum of another teenager, who was black and had mental disabilities, after having harassed the student and directed racial slurs at him for months.
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The day after Trump nominated federal judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Nixon gave a speech at a New York City rally, gripping a coat hanger and telling the story of her mother's illegal abortion in the 1960s and trashing Cuomo's record on supporting abortion rights in the state.
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In this context, to suffer, she believes, would be melodramatic and self-aggrandizing, not to mention rendering her a person empathetically stunted when you consider real suffering like starving to death or stage four colon cancer or a baby rhesus monkey given a wire coat hanger to cling to instead of a mother.
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Cover image: Hillary Namba holds a wire coat hanger and a sign that reads "We Won't Go Back," Tuesday, July 10, 2018, as she takes part in a protest in Seattle against President Donald Trump and his choice of federal appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his second nominee to the Supreme Court.
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But another big part of her work involves education—getting people to see that telemedicine abortion isn't a shady back-alley practice akin to a coat-hanger abortion, but a tried and true method of terminating a pregnancy that can allow women to feel a greater sense of agency and control over their bodies.
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People who self-induced abortions in the decades before the landmark Supreme Court ruling sometimes resorted to drinking toxic chemicals, throwing themselves down the stairs, or using crude instruments like knitting needles or a coat hanger, the latter of which has become a universal symbol of the life-threatening consequences of restricting people's access to abortion care.
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Although misoprostol alone is not as effective as the mifepristone/misoprostol combo currently used to induce medical abortion, it's still 75-85 percent effective in the first trimester, and, of course, far, far safer than the many unsafe abortion methods desperate women turn to (including, but not limited to, drinking toxic fluids like turpentine, inserting a twig or coat hanger into the uterus, or attempting a D&C in unsanitary conditions) that often lead to infection, infertility, or even death.
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The women (and men) I have spoken to—who are now in their 60s, 70s, and 19653s—shared harrowing stories: of sexual violence from underground abortionists, of shaming from doctors and nurses at hospitals, of waking up in pools of their own blood, of using saline solution and catheters, of the desperate need to borrow money, of coat hanger abortions performed at home, of waiting for strangers at street corners, of being blindfolded and driven to secret locations, of sleazy motel rooms with unsanitary conditions, of serious and agonizing medical complications.
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Rep. Lois FrankelLois Jane FrankelDemocratic Women's Caucus calls for investigation into Epstein plea deal Epstein death sparks questions for federal government Attorney General Barr 'appalled' by Epstein death in federal custody MORE (D-Fla.) on Wednesday brought a coat hanger to a briefing to denounce President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, whose appointment liberals fear could endanger abortion rights.
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