Erasure now
Democracy Now is all the way on board with erasing women.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González, as we turn to a major setback for reproductive rights. As of midnight last night, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Texas law to go into effect that bans abortion after six weeks. No other six-week ban has ever gone into effect in the United States. At six weeks, many people don’t even know they’re pregnant.
If it were “people” the law wouldn’t exist. It’s not “people” who are controlled and bullied and sadistically punished in this way, it’s a specific subset of “people” who are. Amy Goodman is one herself so you’d think she’d get it.
The law is seen as a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that enshrined the right of women to choose to have an abortion, by striking down Texas laws that criminalized the procedure.
The new Texas law is unique. It empowers private citizens — not government officials — to file a civil lawsuit against patients, medical workers, or even a patient’s family or friends who, quote, “aid and abet” an abortion — or a taxi driver who drives a woman to a clinic…
There you go! You can do it. But do it passim, instead of forcing us to be grateful that you do it some of the time. Don’t erase us at all.
Anyway it doesn’t last long. She talks to Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, asking her if this is the most extreme law so far.
NANCY NORTHUP: Well, it’s the most extreme that’s ever gone into effect. And as you pointed out, this morning, unfortunately, in Texas, the clinics can’t be open to provide abortions any later than six weeks. And 85% of people seeking abortions in Texas do so after six weeks, since many people don’t even know they’re pregnant yet at six weeks.
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You know, our client, Whole Woman’s Health, was open until 11:59 p.m. last night seeing patients, because people wanted to get in and exercise their right and make the decisions for their life, health and future, right up to the midnight hour.
How embarrassing that it’s called Whole Woman’s Health, when it’s people who wanted to get in.
This is a great time to shoot ourselves in the foot by obscuring the fact that attacks on abortion are attacks on women.
This reminds me of those sappy little scenes where the wife looks up from the pregnancy strip and announces to her husband “Honey — we’re pregnant!!!”
Women who are eager to pander to the women who deny they’re women by constantly referring to “people “ should remember that Men’s Rights Advocates are constantly trying to argue that since two people are involved in a pregnancy, then the father must have legal veto power over any choice the woman makes regarding abortion. By including transmen in discussions of pregnancy, they’re also including men. The implication is that pregnancy involves several interested parties, as it’s no longer considered a woman’s issue. In addition to MRAs, anti-abortion activists will look for any loophole they can find. They’ll find this one,I bet.