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This again. Again. Rewire News:
Across the country, the anti-abortion movement continues to shame, pressure, and punish people who understand that abortion is a human right.
No, it doesn’t. It continues to shame, pressure, and punish women. The anti-abortion movement is about as far from being gender-neutral as it’s possible to be.
For nearly two decades, nearly three million people have ended their pregnancy with medication abortion.
Nope. Not people. Women. It’s not people who end their pregnancies, it’s women.
Self-managing an abortion consists of two sets of pills to be taken at or under ten weeks after the first day of a person’s last period: The first, mifepristone, blocks the hormone essential to advancing pregnancy. In the following 24 to 48 hours, the person takes the second medication, misoprostol, to empty the uterus.
The woman. Not the person, the woman.
Research demonstrates that with pills from reliable sources, accurate information and back-up care in the rare circumstances it is needed, people can self-manage their abortion—empowering individuals to make autonomous choices about their own reproductive health and increasing access to safe, effective abortion care options that fit their personal circumstances.
It’s not “people” who need to self-manage their abortion, it’s women.
The biggest risk to people who self-manage their abortions using medication abortion is not a threat to their health or safety from the abortion itself, but the threat of prosecution as a result of over-policing in communities, systemic racism, and outdated laws.
The risk is to women. Refusing to call women “women” is insulting and minimizing.
Indeed, since 1973, at least 21 people in the United States have been arrested, investigated, and jailed for ending their own pregnancies. Instead of prosecuting people and providers, our communities should be ensuring that anyone who needs or wants to, can end their pregnancy safely, effectively, with dignity and respect.
Women. It was at least 21 women who were arrested, investigated, and jailed for ending their own pregnancies. Stop erasing them. It’s women and providers who should not be prosecuted. Stop erasing them.
We must pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to get rid of the medically unnecessary regulations that make it hard for
peopleto access medication abortion pills. And we must hold our lawmakers accountable and demand they repeal laws that could be used to criminalizepeoplewho self-manage their abortions.
Women. Women.
What is this “women” of which you speak?
/sarc
Just because all pregnancies to date have ‘befallen’ to women, it does not mean this will always be the case. Let’s face it. There is no 100.00000% certainty on anything. Well, not in this universe anyway.
;-)
Haven’t you heard? Woman is a state of mind these days.
Women are people, Ophelia! I don’t believe we still have to tell people this in 2020…
I wonder how far this will go. Are trans men even pushing this stuff, or is it people being woke on their behalf? If you’re so determined to be a man, would you want to be pregnant? I’d think taking birth control normally used by women would tend to be something done quietly without pitching a fit that this is now birth control for men who don’t want to get pregnant.
At some point if you keep doing woman things then maybe you should consider that maybe you’re a woman?
@Skeletor: I imagine it’s the non-dysphoric types who push this. The same who push the idea that you don’t have to have dysphoria to be trans or that trans is an umbrella. They from whom we get the term truscum.
“Truscum” – they went there? But of course they did. Of course, there’s no way that could backfire on them.
OK, truscum was a new one on me – I had to google it. I’m still not sure I get it. Or rather, the opposite. How can you be trans if you don’t uh transition? Or experience dysphoria? I’m not a stupid person but this one is beyond me.
There you go again, defining someone by their genitals! /s
Yeah, it’s the ideal world, right? You get to keep all the privileges of being male, while screaming and yelling at people who believe you are male (and are probably treating you with more respect and privilege as a result).
The article in question was written by two individuals who self-identify as ‘Amy Weintraub & Fawn Bolak’.
I would hazard a guess and say that they are both of the female persuasion, though please understand I could be wrong. One or both of them might be a cis-woman and/or the other a trans-woman. Or vice-versa.
I would hazard another guess and say that the reluctance on both their parts to use the word ‘woman’ is not accidental and could be due to something unspecified in the article in question linked to by OB in her threadstarter.
Maybe one of them got pregnant due to some sort of activity with the other. I would follow this further, but I don’t want to risk a derailment of my train of thought.