Whose bodily autonomy?
Idiots.
Notice anything missing? Of course: what’s always missing.
It’s not our bodily autonomy, i.e. everyone’s. It’s specifically women’s bodily autonomy. Women are not allowed to be entirely free because women have the responsibility of making the new humans. It is women who are dominated and pushed around by laws against abortion, and it’s yet another insult to women when political campaigns pretend it’s all of us.
The whole post by MoveOn which doesn’t mention women once:
The GOP thought they could strip away our bodily autonomy without facing any consequences. But the recent election in Kansas, one of the country’s most conservative states, proved them WRONG.
The anti-abortion measure on the ballot was defeated in every congressional district in the state. Even in the most conservative districts, people of all political stripes turned out to support abortion. And, crucially, the election’s turnout—which was expected to be relatively low—went through the roof.
Do you know what that means? We can turn the midterm elections this November into a referendum on abortion rights, and we can WIN.
MoveOn wants to get the message out for this fall that we’re going to Roe the Vote and make sure there’s a public, visible movement nationwide to ensure the fight over abortion access is front-and-center for voters.
We’ve just printed a big batch of these stickers and are giving them away for free, while supplies last. Click and order your sticker now while supplies last to proudly display your support for abortion rights and remind those in power that we, the people, hold the real power in this country—and we demand reproductive freedom.
We, the women, demand that you say “women” when you talk about abortion rights.
I really wonder what would make these organizations start saying the forbidden words again, other than the ground falling completely out from under the Genderist movement.
“Abortion” becomes “bodily autonomy”, then is merged with “trans rights” (where “bodily autonomy” = “right to hormones and surgeries”), then becomes even more a losing proposition. Generalizing everything loses everything (if I can generalize about generalization a little).
I wonder. Does removing the word “women” from their communications, (or rephrasing things in such a way as to be able to avoid its occurrance), cost them time and money, or are they so used to self-censoring (or so thoroughly indoctrinated) that not saying “women” in the first place has become second nature? Effort or reflex?
Yes, exactly. Why these organizations are so intent on reframing abortion so as to be “inclusive” of trans concerns when the numbers of trans people are miniscule compared to HALF THE POPULATION is beyond me. Virtue signaling has become more important than communicating clearly and effectively; being “inclusive” has become more important than achieving the actual goal of the organization.