Every body, geddit?
“Reproductive rights are essential for achieving gender equality.” What do they mean by that? What does that sentence mean? What is gender equality?
Gender equality means an end to the social and cultural and mental arrangements by which women are seen as inferior to men in every way, and as subordinate to men as a law of nature (and nature’s “God” for the many people who believe in such a thing).
That’s what gender equality means, so that has to be what NARAL meant by it.
So then why are they trying to tell us that abortion rights are for everyone? Why are they talking about people needing abortions instead of women? Why are they Twitter-blocking feminist women who object to this erasure?
Why do they on the one hand cite the need for gender equality and on the other hand try to bully women into agreeing that men too get pregnant and need abortion rights? Why do they go from gender equality at the beginning of the paragraph to people who choose to work while pregnant?
What the hell is wrong with them?
Does it? What then is sexual equality? What about gender being the method of oppression?
Unless “gender” means the same thing as “sex” — in which case we can just take every reference to the latter and replace it with the former. I don’t think that works out particularly well. When vocabulary is ambivalent, some people get easily confused.
I have seen arguments made, and persuasively, that abortion is for everybody in the sense that it often benefits the men, too. But I don’t love those arguments because I don’t think we should argue for something to make life better for women because it makes life better for men. That just changes it back to being giving men stuff.
And I doubt that is what they mean, especially given the poster included in the later post.
Sastra – well I used “gender” because NARAL did and I didn’t feel like doing the “I changed ‘gender’ to ‘sex’ because…” dance. The trouble is that “gender” is simply another word for “sex,” as well as being a word that means something different from sex. It’s a source of endless confusion and inconvenience.
@Ophelia;
Exactly, and I knew you knew that. You expressed it more clearly, though. They trade on the ambiguity, either deliberately or because it confuses them. Or both.
Damn that ambiguity. DAMN IT I say.
How many trans-men have ever needed abortion services?
Guttmacher says several hundred in 2017, and they conclude this justifies “gender inclusivity”. I’m not convinced. But it’s good to have data.
https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2020/01/transgender-abortion-patients-and-provision-transgender-specific-care-non-hospital