ACLU ramps up the lying
The ACLU has a fundraising ad on Facebook that links to a quiz about abortion rights. You know what happens next.
4. In what ways are states trying to force people to remain pregnant?
What they conceal and deny by doing this is the power aspect, the dominance-submission aspect, the inequality aspect, the systemic arrangements by which men get to tell women what to do but women don’t get to tell men what to do, the centrality of reproduction and pregnancy in the domination of women by men. What they conceal and deny by lying about who gets pregnant is the political aspect of abortion restrictions. The ACLU makes it all look random by telling the lie that people in general are forced to remain pregnant. This idiotic dishonest abusive “activism” is erasing women and feminism from the public discourse entirely, and most of the left is cheering it on.
That’s not the only one, either. Of course it’s not.
Forcing patients to make extra unnecessary trips to the clinic
… examples of other restrictions or policies that also force people to remain pregnant.
Abortion bans disproportionately impact people who are:
Black people and other people of color
And then they confront us head-on:
9. True or False: Forced pregnancy only impacts women.
Of course when you click true they inform you you’re WRONG it’s FALSE.
Trans and nonbinary people can also be forced to continue a pregnancy.
Idiots – and misogynists.
10. How can you fight forced pregnancy and help ensure that people can get an abortion if they need one?
Not by pretending that it’s not a denial of women’s rights, that’s for damn sure. Idiots.
I would guess that a transwoman (ie born female, but wishing and behaving she had been born male) could be pregnant. But a bloke born with normal male genitalia would find it somewhat hard; to get pregnant I mean. At least in this Universe.
An issue that is and always has been of primary importance to women is the control over their own reproductive system, and thus must be taken away. The MRA’s are in charge of the ACLU, only they figured out that the way to beat women was to “join them” and make it look like they’re the “real” feminists.
@Omar,
In standard progressive parlance, a female person who identifies as man is a “trans man.” Thus, if one defines trans man as a subset of men, then yes, (some) men can get pregnant. Of course, this is much like asserting that some male horses are capable of gestating their offspring and then pointing to seahorses as proof.
Seahorses are horses! Saw horses are horses! Strawberries are berries! Poison ivy is ivy! Lady bugs are both ladies and bugs!
It’s right there in the name.
I despise these pious progressives who spit and hiss at the mere suggestion that abortion might have anything to do with women in particular as opposed to humans in general. They corrode organizations that ought to be bulwarks defending reproductive rights, piggybacking on actual activism to promote their dogma. Even if we begin from the absurd premise that transmen are men, so the fuck what? Even by genderist standards, the overwhelming majority of “pregnant people” are women. Nobody goes into convulsions of outrage over fundraising campaigns that frame breast cancer as a women’s issue, even though breast cancer can also afflict men—actual adult human males, even.
Nobody but MRAs, anyway.
Smoky @#3:
I claim exemption on the grounds that I am not a ‘standard progressive,’ or for that matter a ‘standard’ anything. Nor do I inky-pinky-parlez any progressivist lingo.
But only women can get pregnant and have kids, and that has been the case ever since that talking snake grabbed the mike in the nightclub called the Garden of Eden and started preaching his own false doctrine. God’s whole Creation went downhill and pear-shaped from there, and that landed us in the mess we’re in today. (Think Donald Trump.)
If God had only needed one sex (as in his own case) he would have just made one; for all animals and plants. But he chose to use double-stranded DNA for his genetic base. If he had chosen to use single-stranded RNA all this trouble would have been avoided, we would all be the same one sex, just like God himself.
For that matter, nobody ever asks God if he is married, or how Mrs God is getting along these days; not even Rev Jimmy Swaggart. And a one-sex-only Creation would have put Hollywood right out of business before it even got started. Stuff like that. ;-)
“Abortion bans disproportionately impact people who are:
Black people and other people of color”
This is a problem too… I mean, they’re fine going for universalism when it comes to sex but if I’m not a person of color why should I care? Doesn’t seem to have much to do with me as a white person.
Omar #7
Re: Mrs God, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
Looks like it was a messy divorce.