Because it works. Because they know they can get a bunch of wishy-washy useless liberals to weep and moan and play "ain't it awful?" instead of telling the wingnuts where to shove their ignorant horseshit.

Some of you folks couldn't be bigger tools if you had "Craftsman" tattooed across your forehead. Get a clue, willya?

Seriously, I think everyone saw the words "abortion" and "party" together and have lost all sense of reason. People have been throwing parties to raise money for decades -- some of the best parties I've been to were rent parties.

It's exactly these kind of views...equating abortion and rent that put you at the -3 sigma side of the population.

that this is either completely made up or at least embellished. But it really wouldn't surprise me if someone somewhere did have a party to help pay for an abortion. Does it really surprise anyone that sometimes, 20-somethings can be a bit irreverent, even about things that they take very seriously? Sometimes even on purpose because they know that something is serious! But wow, this topic combines two things that make people uncomfortable. Abortion and asking for money.

Tracy Clark-Flory, Lynn Harris, Kate Harding and Amy Benfer team up to confirm everything that women of color — and less privileged women in general — historically have alleged about mainstream white feminism: i.e., "It’s all about me and my friends."

Do these pro-choice writers celebrate the fact that a young woman and her friends have done what all four claim to endorse, in approaching abortion as an honorable choice that costs a lot more than "Maggie" has in the bank? Far from it: "It’s like they’re dancing on the fetus’ grave."

Apart from ignoring the long-standing tradition in communities less elite than their own of throwing fund-raising parties for occasions ranging from paying the rent to bailing a brother-in-law out of jail, they recommend the less "glib" and more socially considerate option of "a personal PayPal account and a delicately worded e-mail or quickie Web site whose URL is shown only to a select group." They might be surprised to learn that many of the women who most need help paying for an abortion (and some friends who might be able to help out with an extra $20) don’t even have a computer, let alone the money for a reliable Internet connection or the necessary skills to set up a Web site or a PayPal account in the first place. But even one friend with access to Facebook, a list of phone numbers and some time to text could work a minor miracle.

A party to raise money for an abortion is "tacky?" Wake up, grrls; in the real world, Miss Manners don’t do abortion.

And with the increasing difficulty of raising money in our ever-worsening economy — with the result that the national-level abortion funding groups are now broke, as in busted — this might just be an idea whose time has come.