ACLU spits on women some more
ACLU even worse if that’s possible.
It is possible, and this is worse, because it takes so much more effort to remove “women” from a list of this kind rather than a generic “this is bad for women people” blurt. They really took care over this one, rubbing our noses in it over and over again.
In reality abortion bans disproportionately harm Black, indigenous, and other women of color. They are the ones forced to carry the pregnancy for nine months and then painfully push it out. Men are not.
In reality abortion bans disproportionately harm lesbians. They harm gay men very little, apart from the sympathy and anger gay men may feel for their women friends.
In reality abortion bans disproportionately harm immigrant women. They’re also bad for immigrant men who have to help support the resulting babies, of course, but the men get to skip the nine months and then push aspect.
In reality abortion bans disproportionately harm young women. The harm to young men is negligible in comparison.
In reality abortion bans disproportionately harm women working to make ends meet, because of the nine months and then push and because of what to do with the baby while working.
In reality abortion bans disproportionately harm women with disabilities, because duh.
Say the word. Say us. Say “women.”
They used ‘people’ three times, and ‘women’ not at all. A conscious study in conscious avoidance, I’d say.
On the plus side, they’re really emphasising that women are apparently people. That might confuse most people who just assumed that was the case and don’t realise that specifically we’re now talking about women. It’ll also go right over the heads of the rabid right, because they don’t think women who might need an abortion are people anyway.
I’d say a pox on both their houses, but there are actual women (and girls) who really do need the choice, so it’s a fight that has to be had. It just shouldn’t have to be a 360 degree fight.
On Eliza Mondegreen’s substack she responds to a different, but related tweet by CS:
https://elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/dear-chase-strangio?s=w
(Eliza is not the same as our fellow commenter, Ms. Mondegreen.)
So much effort is being made to say any word except for “woman” when it comes to abortion. They worry about exclusion of the rare woman who gives birth while trans Identifying, so much that they shove aside and exclude the women who really need to be named as needing abortions.