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niyad

(112,440 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:40 PM Jul 2015

I知 Standing With Planned Parenthood Because I知 Angry About the Sexism of the Anti-Choice Movement

I’m Standing With Planned Parenthood Because I’m Angry About the Sexism of the Anti-Choice Movement



Pro-life? Your name’s a lie! You don’t care if women die! We chanted this over and over again while counter-protesting the anti-choice “#WomenBetrayed” rally on Capitol Hill. I wasn’t sure why, but tears started to form in my eyes, and I felt a kind of frustration deep in my stomach that I previously didn’t know existed. I was angry.




I was angry at the aggressive, anti-choice student who shoved cameras into my personal space as a way to intimidate me and keep me silent. I was angry at the protestors who dragged their children through the D.C. heat in the middle of the day to yell and scream about a clearly falsified video. I was angry at the people who claimed to be pro-life, when they were really anti-woman.

Nowhere was this misogyny clearer than in the sexist ways we were treated by the anti-choice protestors. Most telling was one woman who sneered at the interns, telling our bosses to “stop manipulating these girls.” Girls. That word stuck in my head. I was taken aback. We were not a group of girls. We were an organized protest of young, fearless, strong women; women who have the ability to make ethical, informed decisions about our bodies and lives; women who have taken it upon ourselves to make sure people across the country can have access to quality, affordable healthcare.

But she saw us as “girls.” And that proves to me, once again, that the anti-choice movement is not here to serve the interest of women. Instead, this movement infantilizes women, and views us as girls, or people who are unable to make decisions about our healthcare, sexuality, and bodies. I might be a young woman, but I am old enough to make decisions about the issues that matter most to me. I am old enough to know my healthcare decisions should belong in my hands.

So, to the woman who yelled at my internship supervisor to “stop manipulating these girls,” I respond:I am not a girl, but a woman. I am a woman who cares about other women. I am a woman who believes women can be trusted with their medical decisions. I am a woman who has thought deeply about ethical issues, and has decided the prosperity and lives of women, especially low-income women, are far more important than any right-wing political rhetoric that can be spouted at me with the aid of graphic, misleading signs and false data.

I am a pro-choice woman who will not stand for these injustices.



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AllFieldsRequired

(489 posts)
1. I wont stand for it either, in fact I think it is time we ask all Americans to decide where they
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:45 PM
Jul 2015

stand.

Women will die without Planned Parenthood.

Period.

niyad

(112,440 posts)
3. and I seriously think that that is exactly what they want! their sheer, insane hatred for women
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:50 PM
Jul 2015

is unrelenting.

AllFieldsRequired

(489 posts)
5. We all know men, so called men, repubs, who have no respect for women, who
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:53 PM
Jul 2015

act childish and embarrassed when around them and when not around them they are talking about how they order their woman around etc.


There are also those who are just mean to them all the time, whether in public or in private.

I really believe the non-liberal brain is damaged in some way, either genetically or from environment.

AllFieldsRequired

(489 posts)
7. Oh yes, I meant to say that but my fear is if we say that too often it will lose
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:58 PM
Jul 2015

it's meaning.

To the cons out there, both men and women, when you say that they look at you as if you are out of your mind.

The con women dont know they are hated and feared by the men, and the men know it but couldnt admit it in a million years.

We have to someone make it clear to people that this is a fact.

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