20K People Just Trolled Mike Pence

They donated to Planned Parenthood in his name

By Arden Dier, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 17, 2016 7:34 AM CST

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Mike Pence at the governor's Statehouse office in Indianapolis on Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Shrink — Mike Pence at the governor's Statehouse office in Indianapolis on Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

(Newser) – Donald Trump has many fearing for the future of women's reproductive freedom, but last week's election outcome wasn't all bad for Planned Parenthood. The organization has seen an "unprecedented outpouring (of) support" in the days since in the form of 160,000 donations, including 20,000 in Mike Pence's name, reports the Indianapolis Star. The future vice president—who as governor of Indiana signed legislation banning abortion in the case of a fetal anomaly, per NBC News—isn't intentionally driving the generosity. Twitter users have been encouraging people to donate to Planned Parenthood using Pence's official contact information so he'll receive a certificate in response, and 20,000 have followed suit, including Amy Schumer. Pence, meanwhile, is keeping mum.

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TheStupid1

Nov 17, 2016 11:12 PM CST

Stop women from using this as a alternative to birth control! Women MUST be more responsible! Damn whores!

Doug Simpson

Nov 17, 2016 8:02 PM CST

That's not what trolling means. Pence doesn't even know these people exist.

ChuChu

Nov 17, 2016 5:45 PM CST

Troll him with these founding father tidbits (just 4 of many): "As the Government of the United States of America IS NOT IN ANY SENSE founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen…” . ~ Treaty of Tripoli, negotiated under the first U.S. President George Washington, approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797 - taken into effect as the law of the land on June 10, 1797 after being signed into law by the 2nd US President, John Adams. (note: the words "not in any sense" - seem pretty unambiguous). This treaty represents U.S. law as all treaties do according to the US Constitution Article VI, Sect. 2. “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.” ~ James Madison (4th president and principle author of the US Constitution), in a letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774 "I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!" ~ John Adams (2nd President of the United States), letter to Thomas Jefferson "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible...Some books on Deism fell into my hands...It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared much stronger than the refutations; in short I soon became a thorough deist." -Benjamin Franklin, "Toward the Mystery" (autobiography)