For treating pregnant patients
Anti-abortion politicians brought this case all the way up to the Supreme Court to deny pregnant people access to emergency abortion care that is necessary to prevent severe and potentially life-altering health consequences, and even death.
The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States, which will determine whether politicians can put doctors in jail for treating pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies. The ultimate decision in the case — which is expected by the summer — could have severe consequences on the health and lives of people across the country facing emergency pregnancy complications.
Etc etc etc. The ACLU doesn’t say “women” or “woman” even once in the entire piece.
It’s like writing a piece about lynching without ever mentioning race.
The fact that women are the half of humanity that creates and pushes out all of humanity is why they are treated as inferior and subordinate. It’s not some irrelevant detail, it’s central.
The ACLU would not in a million years do a piece on racism while carefully never mentioning the people who are the targets of racism. Why is it so comfortable omitting women from discussions of abortion?
The comparison to race is always a dagger. Probably why they get so perturbed when it’s raised. They have no answer to it that’s even vaguely compelling.
The ACLU is understandably aware of the issues of probability. Just because the only pregnancies recorded to date have occurred in female bodies, it denotes that caution is required all the same. The intellectual giants in their ranks are no doubt advocating said caution: wisely reminding us that just because all pregnancies known to science have to date occurred in women, it does not mean that they must ALWAYS be like that forever and ever amen and to infinity. The probability of a man getting himself pregnant cannot possibly be 0.00000000000…. to infinity, because all case studies have not yet come in, and never will.
Just goes to show that it’s a tricky thing, this Universe.
It might do so if it were to be as thoroughly captured by racists as it has been by gender extremists. It would likely be an entirely different bunch of raving loonies than are currently in charge, but it’s not impossible. Get the right combination of funding and staff turnover and they’d be off to the races (so to speak) undermining the ACLU’s legacy from a different perspective. After all, it must have been some kind of combination of money and people that led to the triumph of the genderists. If they fell for Strangio et al., who’s to say they’d be immune from capture by the David Duke Fan Club?
I’m afraid that I agree that the ACLU is far from immune to racist takeover; after all, it has happened to the supreme court of the USA, hasn’t it? There will always be people eager and willing to sell out their own demographic for personal wealth and power.
One single solitary “her” and even THAT is in a direct quote from a doctor.
And could be a male patient’s chosen luxury pronoun.
Omar, #2. That reminded me of one of the idiots I was engaging with in the comments at Mano Singham’s blog on FTB not so long ago. I had responded to a comment mentioning pregnant ‘people’ by stating that only women get pregnant. I preempted the obvious by adding that trans men were still women and that as men, however they identified, we’re not capable of getting pregnant the correct term is ‘pregnant women’..
A commenter (Raging Bee, I think) told me that I was tying myself in knots because trans healthcare might advance to the stage where trans women receive womb implants and can get pregnant. Therefore, if I insist that trans women are men I have to either admit than men can get pregnant or that trans women are women. Note how the claim was that I was wrong not because of what can happen but because of what might happen far into the future.
Anyway, I just said to come back to me when the fever dream became reality and we’d talk again.