“Choose adoption not abortion!!!!!”
No. Pregnant people are not obligated to be your broodmares. You are not entitled to the fetus inside them.
“Pregnant female humans” would at least acknowledge that’s this is sex based oppression. Saying “pregnant people” erases the patriarchal reasoning behind anti-abortion activism.
Pregnant WOMEN. Say it or don’t say it at all.
Not everyone who gets pregnant is a woman, and those who aren’t woman are also impacted heavily by anti abortion laws and rhetoric. I feel that it is important to use inclusive language when talking about reproductive health issues that impact a wide variety of people.
You literally have to be a female to get pregnant. And only women are females. Like this is middle school biology, not my opinion.
Middle school biology, much like middle school history, is highly simplified and anyone who has taken college level courses will tell you that it can be a simplification to the point of misconception.
Trans and non binary people exist. Many of them can get pregnant.
Denying this is bigotry.
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“I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She replied that she was hoping to go to Zimbabwe, and felt that she could help women there by advising them how to organize. The Black women in the audience gasped in astonishment. Here was someone scarcely past girlhood, who had just started university and had never fought a war in her life. She was planning to go to Africa to teach female veterans of a liberation struggle how to organize! This is the kind of arrogant, if not absurd attitude we encounter repeatedly. It makes one think: Better the distant armchair anthropologists than these ‘sisters’.”
— Nigerian feminist Ifi Amadiume (via newwavefeminism)
And still the White system is in control, and Black votes suppressed or taken for granted.
I’m over this White Feminist™ idea that naked equals empowered it’s a lot more complex than that.
Watch: Poet Rachel Wiley continues “And ain’t that just like white feminism, always …”
Speaking of “white feminism,” did you know it goes all the way back to the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War? The time period saw simultaneous struggles for the expansion of women’s and black rights, which shaped the trajectory of the feminist movement.