We, our, everyone

We shouldn’t have to spell it out, Planned Parenthood defiantly yells.

Maybe not, but the fact remains that in this environment you do have to spell it out, yet you carefully never do. Including in this stupid evasive ad.

Who are the “we” in OUR bodies and OUR futures? Who are the people you’re talking about? Is there a word for them? Can you tell us what it is?

Actually your message is far from clear. It’s deliberately obscure. Yes, universal health care is a good thing; agreed. Everyone should have access to it; agreed. Abortion, however, is not something Everyone needs. It’s something women need, and for that reason, it’s something women have had to fight for. In other words, it’s political. You can’t tackle the politics of it and try to conceal the politics of it at the same time. The war on abortion rights is a war on women, but you’re intentionally hiding that fact for the sake of the childish belief that trans people’s rights require us to deny the connection between the war on abortion rights and the war on women.

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