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Some people wear their heart on their sleeve, others wear abortion – in neon lights.

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Michele Pred pro-choice purse front and back abortionPro-abortion San Francisco artist Michele Pred has unveiled the latest in abortion couture, the abortion purse. Quoting Vitaminw.co:

At a new show opening tomorrow, a “Pro Choice” accessory, made from a vintage hat case [above], displays the writing in neon lights.

Pred has also made a series of purses [right] – vintage style pocketbooks with big honking clasps and wrist straps from the days of the diaphragm. These powerful purses showcase words like “Choice” or a heart, spelled out in beautiful ElectroLuminescent wire….

It’s like a retro-fashion tech version of a bumper sticker. More chic than a pin-on button. Pred says in an email, “the purses are referring to women’s economic power! AND (they’re) a mobile (and fashionable) way of expressing ones views.”

The wire resembles neon lights, and you can make make them blink on and off – which the artist says is her favorite.

I realize red is meant to symbolize power. But it is, of course, also the color of blood, ironic.

And I realize the purse is likewise meant to symbolize power, as in “power of the purse. ” But it also symbolizes money, as in “purse strings,” the huge windfall profits the abortion industry makes from chopping up little helpless babies.

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They’ll claim no one wants to profit from abortion, oh no. Nevertheless, Pred’s “limited edition” abortion purses will fetch $300 each. Just sayin’.

As Saynsumthn’s Blog points out, Pred has been making a living off of contraceptive pill and abortion art for awhile. In 2012, Pred tried to partner with Planned Parenthood:

Michele Pred tweets to Cecile Richards Planned Parenthood

I somehow can’t imagine Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards wearing one of these purses, but she could prove me wrong.

Pro-life bias aside, I do think Pred ruined those beautiful retro purses with puncture marks and coated wire lettering, no matter what cause she might have chosen to promote.

Reprinted with permission from Jill Stanek