Mom Confessions

Planned Parenthood has publicly distanced itself from a controversial anti-Trump billboard in New York City's Times Square after an athletic clothing company cited the organization as a partner in its new ad campaign.

On Wednesday, the brand, Dhvani, unveiled the first in a series of images meant to protest the Trump administration's "gag rule" prohibiting doctors at Title X-funded clinics from referring patients for abortions. The rule prompted Planned Parenthood to pull out of the federal grant program in August.

The billboard ad, called "Lady Liberty," showed model Michal Mesa, whom Dhvani described in a news release as a Marine Corps veteran and a middle school teacher, standing over a screaming President Trump with her foot on his head. He is tied up, and storm clouds gather over the White House.

"We are proud to join Planned Parenthood in defending women from assaults on our reproductive rights," Dhvani's chief communications officer, Chloe Mason, said. "Trump administration policies are threatening the health and bodily autonomy of women, especially women of color, low-income women and LGBTQ women."