{"id":551,"date":"2015-08-12T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/todojustice\/?p=551"},"modified":"2015-08-22T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T19:02:44","slug":"trump-republican-misogyny-and-the-attacks-on-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/todojustice\/2015\/08\/12\/trump-republican-misogyny-and-the-attacks-on-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Republican Misogyny, and the Attacks on Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"lace-contraception\"<\/a>I must admit that I wasn\u2019t particularly surprised by Donald Trump\u2019s comments<\/a> to Megyn Kelly during and after the Republican Presidential debate last debate. After all, Trump has a reputation for misogyny and for disrespecting women. Ironically, perhaps, his outburst and attack of Kelly exemplify the very political problem that Kelly was attempting to ask Trump to account for as part of his bid for the Presidency.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Trump attempted to deflect attention<\/a> from his treatment of women by accusing Jeb Bush of having a \u201cproblem\u201d with women. This, too, is no particular surprise. Even before Bush\u2019s most recent statement to a Southern Baptist Convention event in Nashville that, \u201cI\u2019m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues,\u201d the group Ultraviolet<\/a> shared the following five things you should know about Jeb Bush on their facebook page:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ultraviolet\"<\/a>Hillary Clinton is rightly shifting the attention from Trump\u2019s misogyny to the larger problems about what the Republican party (and the Republican candidates) have to say about women more broadly.<\/p>\n

The comments by Trump and Bush exemplify the Republican party\u2019s \u201cwoman problem\u201d which isn\u2019t so much as a woman problem as it is basic misogyny. As I said in a recent post<\/a>, misogyny is the hatred of women. Something quite evident in the attitudes that attempt to engage in sexual shaming (Bush) and in reducing women to animals and\/or their sexuality (Trump).<\/p>\n

In an event on Monday, Clinton said, \u201cWhile what Donald Trump said about Megyn Kelly is outrageous, what the rest of the Republicans are saying about all women is also outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillary is right. Republican attitudes toward women are not only archaic, they are often offensive, paternalistic, and sometimes\u00a0veiled in a vaguely Christian religiosity that needs to be challenged and debunked.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the Republican attack on Planned Parenthood in recent weeks, which is not only outrageous, it\u2019s downright misogynist.<\/p>\n

Republicans across the board have revived their attack of Planned Parenthood in the wake of a campaign<\/a> by the anti-abortion group \u201cCenter for Medical Progress\u201d which has been releasing secretly taped and heavily edited videos intended to manipulate the public\u2019s emotions rather than talk about women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s talk about women\u2019s health, specifically, women\u2019s reproductive health.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start\u00a0with some facts.<\/p>\n

Half of the pregnancies in the United States are unplanned.<\/p>\n

Half of those unplanned pregnancies are the result of contraceptive failure.<\/p>\n

Many of the other half happen to women who can\u2019t afford contraception.<\/p>\n

More than 19 million women in the US need publicly supported contraceptive services<\/a> and 30% or 5.8 million of them are uninsured.<\/p>\n

Fewer than 1% of women<\/a> place their children for adoption. The decision to continue an unplanned pregnancy is a decision to raise a child.<\/p>\n

Only women get pregnant. Getting pregnant, having babies, and raising children affect women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

The facts are that Planned Parenthood is a significant provider of affordable women\u2019s health care, particularly for poor women, in this country. \u00a078% of their patients <\/a>have incomes at or below 150% of the poverty level. One in five women in the country will use Planned Parenthood\u2019s services at some point in her life.<\/p>\n

Abortions make up only 3% of Planned Parenthood\u2019s services.<\/p>\n

One-third of Planned Parenthood\u2019s services consist of providing contraception and they provide contraception to 80% of their patients.<\/p>\n

More than a third of their services attend to the testing and treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) which impact women differently from men and can cause sterility and neonatal death if untreated.<\/p>\n

The Republican attack on Planned Parenthood is political. It is intended to play to a pro-life constituency and is largely couched as a concern over abortion but Republican dislike of Planned Parenthood goes much deeper than abortion.\u00a0It\u2019s about the desire to control women\u2019s sexuality and women\u2019s bodies. Single mothers and sexually active teens are topics for shaming and control in too much conservative political rhetoric.\u00a0The Republican concern over Planned Parenthood is also a concern over providing contraception to women who conservatives, often Christian conservatives, don\u2019t think should be having sex.<\/p>\n

The median age that Millenials become sexually active in 17.<\/a> Planned Parenthood is not causing them to become sexually active, Planned Parenthood is just concerned with making sure they have access to good and accurate sex education and to contraception, including protection from STDs.<\/p>\n

These are women\u2019s health issues. Planned Parenthood didn\u2019t invent sex or abortion. But they are responding to the reality of women\u2019s reproductive and sexual health needs better than any other provider in the country. Trying to control women\u2019s sexuality by defunding Planned Parenthood is just one illustration of the problem of misogyny that plagues\u00a0Republicans.<\/p>\n

Anyone who truly wants to reduce the abortion rate in the United States should be rushing to increase<\/em> the funding of Planned Parenthood so that more women will have access to safe and effective contraception. More money for Planned Parenthood wouldn\u2019t increase the number of abortions in the country, it would decrease the number.<\/p>\n

The best avenue for reducing abortions is not bullying women into not having them, it\u2019s helping provide better health care, sex education, and access to contraception so that we reduce the unplanned pregnancy rate.<\/p>\n

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