Planned Parenthood: Not A Villain

Pro-choice describes political and ethical views that a woman should have the control over her fertility and the choice to continue or terminate her pregnancy. Pro-choice activists argue that an embryo has no rights as it is only a potential and not an actual person and its rights should not override those of the mother’s until after it is born. The right to choose to have an abortion is personal and essential to women’s lives and without this right, women cannot exercise their rights and liberties guaranteed to them by the Constitution. Without the right to choose an abortion the 14th amendment’s guarantee of liberty has little meaning for women. Another point made could include that a man can withdraw from a relationship when he finds out that his spouse is pregnant, it is only fair that women be given the same choice.

More than 600 of these marches took place all over the world, the largest being at the nation’s capitol in Washington D.C.. Those who participated did so for a multitude of reasons. Marching for not just equal rights for women, but for equal rights for the LGTBQIA+ community, for Black Lives Matter, for raising awareness about climate change, and much, much more. The hashtag Why I March has garnered up millions of Instagram posts, Tweets, Facebook updates, and articles, all from men and women standing up for their beliefs. The coordinators of the Women’s March on Washington put together a document outlining their guidelines and principles, and illustrate modern day feminism very well. They go over the basic principles that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. It also demonstrates intersectionalism, calling for an end to police brutality, reformations for the criminal justice system, an end to human trafficking, rights for immigrants and refugees, among many others. Just as the first women’s convention in American history drew up a doctrine, the guiding vision and definition of principles of the Women’s March is eerily similar to the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances written 169 years

Pro-Life believe that women should not have the right to have abortions while Pro-Choice believe that women who become pregnant should have the choice to have an abortion. When a survey is done asking Americans if abortions should be legal, illegal, or legal under certain circumstances most people said legal under certain circumstance. “There are variations within each group depending on how liberal or conservative one’s opinions are; some individuals who are pro-life believe that in cases of rape or incest abortion should be allowed, and some pro-choice groups favor waiting periods and other restrictions on abortion” (Arguments for and Against Abortions). Pro-Choice believe that the “fetus is a human being from the moment of conception; this means abortion is murder, which is immoral and should be illegal. While Pro-Life believe that“The fetus is not yet a human being because it cannot survive outside the uterus on its own” (Arguments for and Against

Pro-choice persons view abortion as murder. They view an unborn child as a human with rights to life. They argue that taking a human life living outside the uterus is considered murder, so killing an embryo or fetus, an unborn child, is also murder.

She’s beautiful when She’s Angry tells the story of the women's movement from 1966-1973. This documentary tells a story through the use of footage, photographs and interviews from the women who helped shape second wave feminism. There were a few key players during that time, such as Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller, Frances Beal, and Betty Friedan. Throughout She’s Beautiful when She’s Angry these women discuss issues that were problematic during this time period, most of which still are today. A few examples are child care, rape, birth control, and the right to not get married and start a family. This historical overview of this time period reminds us that feminists continue to fight for many of the same rights, fifty years later.

Planned Parenthood is a controversial topic sweeping the nation of America with political and moral issues. Every day one could come across a new article on it, stubble upon a news article in their local paper or even on their local news station. Planned Parenthood directly provides reproductive health services, is involved in teach young students about sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology, and interacts with legal and political efforts aimed at protecting and developing reproductive rights.

The film is centered on a group known as the Women’s Army. It is a group comprised of women who seek to eradicate the ever-present inequalities between males and females. They end up going on marches, networking with different radio shows and meeting together in order to find ways to educate women and the general public about the hypocritical nature of the government and its role in the social and economic status of women. In the beginning of the film we see men catcalling women as they walk down the street, harassing them while riding the subways, and even attempting to rape them in broad daylight. This highlights the impact of societies ideology about gender

“I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade and I will defend women's rights to make their own healthcare decisions.” -Hillary Clinton

When women were fighting for their rights, they approached the situation in multiple different ways. They were all connected with the same desire to get their rights and get a say in who ran the country that they lived in. They felt useless, just staying at home and being expected to only take care of children and the house.

Survey the landscape. There are thousands of women in prisons, some being tortured, some being force-fed, and others being sexually assaulted. However, you can also view women shouting, filled with courage, bravery, and life. People are waving banners and holding signs, fighting for their very rights as a citizen of the United States. More accurately, citizens of the United States are fighting for their rights as people. Welcome to Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America. The suffragettes are taking a stand against an unfair system and earning their right to vote.

Women are digging their souls filled with guilt into a deeper hole of resentment by men by holding this march in the name of “all women.”

This image shows women marching during the women’s rights movement. The picture in particular shows the youngest women’s rights advocate, the infant in the stroller. During this time period women were not allowed to participate in any civil activities. Women were seen as the individuals in charge of cleaning and taking care of the children. Being that they were seen as such individuals, they stood up for their rights to vote and make a difference in the world. Fighting for their rights was a very difficult task, as many individuals had a hard time supporting them. Women protested, marched, and were imprisoned; however, they never gave up.

The argument of abortion has been raging since the Supreme Court case, Roe vs. Wade, in 1973. This court case has divided the country into two factions: pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-life advocates argue that abortions are murder and extreme levels of child abuse. While pro-choice advocates believe abortions are a justifiable means to end pregnancies. The pro-choice argument is that the fetus is not yet a human being and its rights should not override that of the mother’s.

However, in the world of mass imagery, intent doesn’t really seem to matter. On the surface, the protest purported to be about animal cruelty: however, despite what intentions may have been behind it, there was a specific choice to abuse a woman publicly to make this point— which makes the image they were presenting, no matter the purpose, one of a woman suffering violence. In “In the Shadow of an Image”, a piece about the power of images through advertising, Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen write: “We live and breathe an atmosphere where mass images are everywhere in evidence; mass produced, mass distributed. In the streets, in our homes, among a crowd, or alone, they speak to us, overwhelm our vision.” (Ewen 182). The Ewens make clear that people cannot extricate an image from its context within the wider world of mass imaging: all of these images are interlinked, and people’s perception of each is influenced by the rest. So despite what the image is intending to do, its effect is similar to the other images of violence against women that are out there in the world, and it adds to the worldwide bombardment of like images. Therefore, viewers’ perceptions of Traide’s protest are inextricably linked with all the images of violence against women that they have been saturated with their whole lives. These images come from a variety of sources, but most often from film, from the fashion industry, and from pornography. An average citizen turns on the TV and sees a beautiful, sexualized woman lying prostrate on the ground, dead. They open a magazine and see an advertisement with half-naked woman being strangled by a fancy silk tie. They go to a pornography website and find an entire category dedicated to those who are sexually aroused by women in pain. Eventually it becomes normalized and—horrifically—in many cases, sexualized. Though the

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