The totalitarianism of the Social Justice Warrior really wants to extend into every part of your life, but more often than not it double-backs and attacks those on it’s own side out of their insane principles. Case in point – many are demanding that pro-abortion advocates stop making the issue about women, because MEN have abortions too!
Who has abortions? For most of human history, the answer was obvious: women have abortions. Girls have abortions. Not any more. People have abortions. Patients have abortions. Men have abortions. “We must acknowledge and come to terms with the implicit cissexism in assuming that only women have abortions,” wrote feminist activist Lauren Rankin in July 2013 in truthout.com. She went on to criticize as exclusionary slogans like “the War on Women” and “Stand with Texas Women.”
Such claims may sound arcane to most people. One area in which they have been quietly effective, though, is in reproductive-rights activism. Abortion funds, which offer help paying for an abortion when Medicaid or insurance won’t, have become a thriving hub of grassroots feminism. They draw hundreds of activists, young and old, to donate countless hours to provide direct service and advocate for better funding for abortion. In the past few years, a number of the funds have quietly removed references to “women” from their messaging in order to be more welcoming to trans men and others who do not identify as women but can still become pregnant. The New York Abortion Access Fund changed its language in 2012. Its mission statement now mentions “anyone,” “every person” and “the people who call our hotline.” The Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund helps “callers,” the Lilith Fund helps “Texans.” Last year Fund Texas Women, which pays travel and hotel costs in the wake of the closing of many clinics in the state, became Fund Texas Choice. (“Choice” is a problematic word too, but that’s a subject for another day.) In a message to supporters, co-founder Lenzi Scheible wrote, “with a name like Fund Texas Women, we were publicly excluding trans* people who needed to get an abortion but were not women. We refuse to deny the existence and humanity of trans* people any longer.”
Now this writer at the Nation goes on to say she is not completely supportive of changing the message to fit the tiny minority of women who mutilate themselves to pretend to be men and then have abortions. But it’s still amazing that there are enough people asking for this that it has to be addressed.
The far left will demand that we completely change our language, our institutions, our traditions and our laws just to accommodate a tiny minority based on their “feelings” that challenge the absolute standards of nature. Get ready for it, they’re taking aim at YOU.