HuffPo, Newsweek Face Backlash Over Abortion Metaphor

Both The Huffington Post and Newsweek are battling backlash for their use of coat-hanger symbols to protest a call for a Constitutional ban on abortions without exceptions for victims of rape and incest. The call for the ban appears in a draft of the GOP's official 2012 platform, according to CNN.

The front page of The Huffington Post was taken up by a large image of a coat hanger late Tuesday morning to illustrate two stories -- first this, then this one -- related to the proposed ban.

"We thought it was powerful," founding editor Roy Sekoff said of the decision to use the stock image. "It's saying that this is the inevitable consequence of this kind of policy."

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