becoming-vverevvolf:

siliconandsunlight:

thepeacockangel:

When you suddenly realize that eugenics and anti-choicers are both attempts by the capitalist patriarchy to cement their control of the means if reproduction

except the original creators of planned parenthood and the American abortion movement were actually eugenicists. Hoping abortion would clear out “undesirables” aka black and latin@ children

i believe that was party to the original comment

@thepeacockangel, your comment?

Yeah basically, like the fact that ultimately planned parenthood was founded on a similar impulse which if you think about it is super fucked up, both eugenicists and anti-choicers are in favor of making decisions about other people’s reproduction.   I do not like Sanger.  I do believe that all people deserve access to reproductive choice, safe reproductive choice that will not compromise their future fertility (as has so often happened to WOC in this country, either from being unable to access legal abortion or through forced sterilization), and I believe that people can be trusted with their own reproductive choices. 

Abortion predates Sanger… and probably predates recorded history.  I can see absolutely no reason to deny people control of their uteruses.  

I however completely understand having distaste for planned parenthood as an organization given the principals it was founded on, regardless of its current practices (which may very well still be racist as fuck, most reproductive care in this country is.)  I know that as an organization they make me uncomfortable as fuck, but I also have no need of hormonal birth control and access to health screenings from other sources.  I feel like access to these things is terribly necessary, but on the other hand I feel like we should create alternate ways to make them accessible to people, especially because I know many disabled people and people of color who do not feel safe in planned parenthood because of its history. Access to reproductive health care, and choice about pregnancy for all people in a place that they are safe and feel safe should be mandatory, looking at alternate solutions is of crucial importance because planned parenthood cannot provide an environment that feels safe for disabled people and POC, even if it has (and I am not sure it has) changed dramatically since its founding, because the simple fact that marginalized people do not feel comfortable there means it is not and can never be truly an accessible space.

I just feel like we can probably trust POC who have uteruses to make decisions about their own bodies and they shouldn’t be forced to choose between no reproductive choice, and reproductive choice founded on racist and ableist eugenicist principals