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How Gender Neutral Language Is Shaping the Fight for Abortion Rights – The New York Times

The American Civil Liberties Union, whose advocacy on reproductive rights is of more than a half-century vintage, recently tweeted its alarm about the precarious state of legal abortion:

Abortion bans disproportionately harm: Black Indigenous and other people of color. The L.G.B.T.Q. community. Immigrants. Young people. Those working to make ends meet. People with disabilities. Protecting abortion access is an urgent matter of racial and economic justice.

This tweet encompassed so much and so many and yet neglected to mention a relevant demographic: women.

via www.nytimes.com

If women got abortions, they would be . . . what? Not sure where this is going.