youremyonlyhope reblogged
Stop calling it women’s healthcare stop calling it women’s healthcare stop calling it women’s healthcare stop calling it women’s healthcare stop calling it women’s healthcare
#i took a class in college that was called something along the lines of 'gender crime and justice'#and we spent a while on abortion laws and women being arrested for having miscarriages and stuff#and my professor said something along the lines of 'obviously. women are not the only people who can get pregnant.#i want to be inclusive of the transmen and nonbinary people who can get pregnant and are affected by these laws.#but at the same time. it IS a women's issue because the vast majority of those affected are women.#and the laws are an extension of a history of controlling women's bodies. so right now there really isn't a better way to word it.'#and that stuck with me. and that was fall 2016. yeah. that class was the second one i had the day after that election#the first one was 'diversity in american society' and obviously. a depressing class#(minus the one white boy who was always like 'hey what's wrong with making america great' and me arguing back every. single. day.)#(and that boy was half lebanese with a very lebanese name so like BOY. on paper those MAGAts hate you.)#(i don't know if he ever got it through his thick skull but boy did i try and boy did my professor LOVE me for it. she told me later.)#then i had a break. then i had the gender crime and justice class. and it was. equally depressing.#because the abortion laws were bad enough even with roe v wade in place. so much worse now without it. how things change in 8 years.