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[–]MarkTwainiac 29 insightful - 7 fun29 insightful - 6 fun30 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

So according to Planned Parenthood MA

acknowledging that the use of woman-centric language in reproductive & abortion advocacy is erasure of trans health care.

By this logic, using teeth- and mouth-centric language in advocacy for better dental care and oral health is erasure of health care for people with medical needs involving other parts of the body.

Using oncology-centric language in cancer advocacy is erasure of diabetes health care.

Heart disease charities are erasing health care for people with arthritis.

Gay Men's Health Crisis by its very name and founding aims erased health care for straight and bi men, boys, all girls and women, and everyone without HIV or AIDS.

In the late 1950s and 60s, my parents helped found a charity for children with cystic fibrosis in the US. By so doing, their real aim must've been to erase health care for all the kids back then who had polio, measles, rubella, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, cerebral palsy and Downs syndrome.

[–]VioletRemi[S] 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And their given examples to replace "women's healthcare" are explaining nothing. Their calling of pregnant women as "people who menstruate" - is ignorant too.

Like here one of comments:

"reproductive health care"

Such vague words describe nothing.

This can mean male reproductive health care. Maybe sperm donoring, maybe impotence.

This can mean reproductive health care of my dog or my cat.

It is just confusing and means nothing.