Planned Parenthood's copyright infringing tweet is also tone deaf.

If you've been halfway awake the past week or so you've heard about some exposé-style videos with Planned Parenthood associates discussing costs associated with fetal tissue acquisition. The Center for Medical Progress was behind these videos that were released in both edited and un-edited versions. Context or no, some notable quotes have been used in stories, like one from President of Planned Parenthood's medical director council Mary Gatter, who said "Let me just figure out what others are getting," (in terms of price) "and if this is in the ballpark, then it's fine, if it's still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini." She also continues by "offering to use a 'less crunchy (abortion) technique' to get more intact body parts.

Now, the pro-choice argument is the whole thing's taken out of context and blown out of proportion, those "anti-choice," knuckle draggers are trying to tell us what to do with our wombs, they want us to go back to the alley for our abortions, and charging for fetal tissue transportation is the normal cost of doing business. Nothing to see here, move along.

If you happen to be pro-life, it's obviously a different story and confirms everything you suspected about where your tax dollars are going, and just how callous and grisly the people who work for an abortion factory are, as they sit there, turning body parts they've long since justified aren't human, into cold hard cash.

What's more interesting to me isn't the politics, or the never-ending rabbit hole debate on your personal beliefs, but the above tweet from Planned Parenthood, which contains an embedded mic drop gif from Minions.

Planned Parenthood is in the news for some pretty appalling sounding things. Whether you justify them or believe them or not doesn't matter. They sound pretty fucking horrific. Those sound bites coming from workers are so egregious in tone, Planned Parenthood apologized on behalf of of the person who said them. In the realm of PR and 24 hour news, this is a Big Deal™.

So it's interesting to me the giant fuck-you PR tactic they took this morning on Twitter. They didn't just to call a group of pro-life taxpayers and the candidates they support "Minions," but they may also have infringed on copyright by posting a cavalier gif-from a children's movie. We are talking Inception-layers of tone-deaf stupidity here. The creators of the Despicable Me franchise, Illumination Entertainment, is owned by Universal Studios. The same studio who, in a bit of a head shaker, just filed a DMCA notice on behalf of its own company for "pirating," Jurassic World. Think about it, if Universal is so quick to file a DMCA takedown notice on their intellectual property, how do you think they'll feel about an abortion organization posting gifs of its own movies to taunt people who were probably going to take their children to see the same movie?

Will Universal get involved? Will there be a boycott of Minions and the franchise by the pro-choice groups? Will Planned Parenthood fire its community manager after a "sorry if anyone was offended," non apology? Or will they double down and make a gif of Disney's Cinderella getting a safe and legal abortion? Place your bets, folks.

Update The original tweet https://twitter.com/PPact/status/624579796153040896 has been removed but it has also been archived here https://archive.is/6LIDm