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Catherine Townsend

A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...

Krispy Kreme = Abortion Doughnuts?

Posted by Catherine Townsend
  • Friday, 16 January 2009 at 09:19 am
Some religious wingnuts in the States are up in arms about the company's seemingly innocent promotion offering a " free doughnut of choice to every customer on this historic day" to celebrate Barack Obama's inauguration.

The American Life League noticed the word "choice" and issued a press release saying that "the unfortunate reality of a post Roe v. Wade America is that 'choice' is synonymous with abortion access, and celebration of 'freedom of choice' is a tacit endorsement of abortion rights on demand."

The rest of the full, totally insane, press release can be read here (via The Miami New Times and Jezebel)

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