Margaret and Helen: On a stage with no vaginas, there were a lot of opinions about vaginas

[niyad]

Margaret and Helen
Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting…

On a stage with no vaginas, there were a lot of opinions about vaginas



Margaret, let’s be clear. I am obviously using the term vagina in the narrowest sense of the word as defined by the Republican Party: a noun referring to women. And it was pretty clear at the debate that vaginas have no value unless a baby needs to pass through one on its way to church or its minimum wage job. Of course, if that baby is black or brown, then the intended destination changes to either prison or Mexico respectively.

I don’t pretend to think that any of the presidential candidates will ever read what I write, but if they did I hope they will remember this:
Millions of women have been going to Planned Parenthood for nearly 100 years. We all remember the exceptional care and the quality of the information we received from the staff at those clinics. We remember when Planned Parenthood staff held our hands and comforted us during some of our scariest moments. We remember the relief we felt when they provided us with medically accurate information that we so desperately needed. And women of my age also remember what it was like when safe, legal abortions were not available.

Contrary to what Republican men think, none of us ever went into a Planned Parenthood for a well woman exam, cancer screening or birth control and mistakenly had an abortion instead. We know what Planned Parenthood is and that is why we love and support its mission.

And in 100 years, millions of women have trusted and supported Planned Parenthood much the same way Republicans blindly trust and support the NRA. So to the Republican Presidential Candidates I say in the only words they seem to understand: You can close Planned Parenthood when you pry it from our cold, dead hands. I mean it. Really.

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[justhanginon]

1. Planned Parenthood is an organization that I feel does a good job

serving a part of our population that is under served for the much needed work they do. I don't have much extra money and it is not a whole lot I can send but it is an organization that I proudly contribute to on a regular basis.
As a male myself, t is sickening to me that all these scum bag male governors are withdrawing support for them on the basis of a highly edited video. A video from a very suspect group that is presenting a partisan and erroneous view of what the organization actually does. It is nothing more than an excuse for some to demean a group that they don't agree with ideologically.
I hope Planned parenthood will be able to continue to grow and fight for women's rights in the future and continue to help those in need of it's services.

[niyad]

2. we all thank you for your support and understanding of the importance of this wonderful

organization.

[niyad]

3. .. . .

[smirkymonkey]

4. Beauty! I interned at the Haight Ashbury Women's Needs Center during

Grad school and it was such a valuable service for low/no income women. I imagine PP is doing the same thing on a national level. There are so many women out there who need just the basics and a safe place to go. We weren't providing abortions, but just basic healthcare in a place that women could feel safe in. Who would be against that unless they really just hated women?

[niyad]

5. "unless they really hated women"--and there you have it.