I just had the pleasure of hearing the dynamic Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood, speak on a panel titled, “Devalued:The Anti-American Right.�
Her discussion was (obviously) focused on the abortion ban in South Dakota, but also made it a point to remind the audience that along with the growing threat to Roe, that clinic violence and harassment has been intensifying across the nation as well. Click here to check out their stats on clinic violence.
When the panel opened to questions, I was shocked to hear some guy ask her something along the lines of that since gender issues will soon cease to exist within politics (due to our apparent sexism-free society), does she expect the issue of choice to disappear as well. While my personal reaction would have simply been, "Whaaa?", I was happy to hear Richards’ more articulate reply, which was that while she certainly hopes the day will come when choice won’t be an issue (because we’ll essentially have our own choices to make), we wouldn’t be here today if gender inequality didn’t exist.
Needless to say, Richards is fabulous and I therefore love her.
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