Same again – the creepy evasive People replacing women in every sentence.

Meet the Reddit ‘Aunties’ covertly helping people get abortions

But it’s not “people” who need abortions, it’s women.

The Reddit group offers a glimpse into a post-Roe era where people resort to informal networks to assist those locked out of an abortion

Women. If it were “people” there would be no ban.

On the page, volunteers sign up to lodge, transport, assist and care for people needing abortions who are alone or in states where it’s difficult to get one.

Women.

A modern day adaptation of underground abortion networks that helped people access care when the procedure was illegal…

Women.

The Reddit community, r/auntienetwork, started in May of 2019, according to the group’s page. It was meant to be an organic space for people who needed help getting abortions to post andfind assistance from others.

Women.

In the thread, users from all across America offer various services to people seeking abortion.

Women.

There’s the rural Colorado auntie who lives with their father near a Planned Parenthood and offered people seeking abortion a “comfy twin bed and a supportive place to crash” among the mountains.

Women.

It’s mildly interesting that “auntie” is allowed, but I guess because it’s in scare quotes it’s ok.

Andrea Miller, the president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, said mutual aid organizations like Reddit’s Auntie Network show how “ready and eager” people are to help those needing abortion care “especially in the face of this hostile Supreme Court.”

Women. Not “those needing abortion care” but women needing it.

She added, however, that Reddit members signing up to volunteer should consider offering help to formal groups that have been around for years, such as the Brigid Alliance which arranges and funds travel for those seeking abortions, or the National Network of Abortion Funds, which helps remove logistical and financial barriers for people seeking abortions.

So careful to make sure NEVER to say “women.”

“We have far too many examples … of ways in which those who are absolutely determined to prevent people from being able to make decisions about the reproductive lives and have abortions literally will stop at nothing,” she said.

Women. To prevent women from being able to make decisions.

“It’s heartbreaking to me,” she said. “People are already in a desperate, terrifying situation and now they’re having to rely on the goodwill of strangers to get access to necessary health care.”

And the Washington Post refuses to call them women.

The word “people” appears 19 times in the article. The word women 0 times.