Time to reconsider patronizing these companies directly supporting Planned Parenthood? Yep. Make your voice heard today, America.
She does see the logo for ExxonMobil, right?
Is it possible that her hatred of reproductive rights supersedes her idolization of the fossil fuel industry?
Of course the idea to boycott companies supporting Planned Parenthood is certainly not a Palin's, but rather one put forward by conservative media.
No surprise, the woman has not had an original thought since she faked her last pregnancy. (Oh wait, that was the plot from a Desperate Housewives episode. So yeah no original thoughts.)
Fortunately in other, more fact based media outlets the videos are being treated like the hoaxes that we all know them to be.
Courtesy of the New Republic:
Just as there are people who believe the moon landing was faked, there are those who refuse to believe that the full scope of reproductive health care is grounded in medical evidence. As the facts are inconvenient, the only option is to circumvent them by any means possible. These videos are the kind of propaganda that only reinforces those fixed, false beliefs.
Some media outlets have even pointed out that these attacks against Planned Parenthood are no really about abortion, but about contraception.
Courtesy of Raw Story:
Planned Parenthood combines two things that conservatives hate: 1) It provides services that allow low income people to live better lives and improve their economic opportunities.* 2) It promotes the idea that women should be able to have sex on their own terms.
Allowing women to have sex on their own terms is threatening because it really disrupts the system that keeps men in power over women in personal relationships. It’s not just that it makes it harder to trap a woman with pregnancy, though that is part of it. But it’s more that, as long as unwanted childbearing is a threat hanging over women’s head, it injects a major power imbalance into sexual relationships. The woman has to live with the “consequences” for having sex, but the man can walk away. So that helps keep up cultural norms that make women placating and submissive. But the more that women can have sex on their own terms without fear of unintended childbearing, the more leverage they have in relationships with men. Is he a domineering dick? Well, good thing you didn’t have kids with him! Just walk away. You can experiment, date around more, just generally live your life.
It also, needless to say, removes a lot of men’s economic power over women. Now that women can complete college and get a career going before having kids, they compete with men on more equal footing.
And hopefully people will pay attention to this fact, because apparently the group behind these highly edited tapes, says there are many more coming.
But at least we have one presidential candidate speaking out in support of Planned Parenthood.
Hillary Clinton:
“I think it is unfortunate that Planned Parenthood has been the object of such a concerted attack for so many years,” the Democratic front-runner said at an event in Greenville, South Carolina. “And it’s really an attack against a woman’s right to choose, to make the most personal, difficult decisions that any woman would face, based on her faith and the medical advice that she’s given.”
Good for her. And once she's elected, good for us.
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