If you still hold that it is only women (or girls) who are capable of getting pregnant, you are engaging in insidious and egregious cissexism. 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
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August 1, 2013
Please don’t call abortion a ‘women’s issue’! You’re engaging in cissexism & make people of indeterminate gender cry! [Darleen Click]
Feel for poor Lauren Rankin, a graduate student in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, assuaging her deep guilt over her cis-privilege assumptions about abortion by rending her garments in public At this crucial moment for reproductive freedom and abortion access, the abortion rights movement stands at yet another crossroads: How do we adequately address and include those who have abortions but are not women? We must acknowledge and