L.A. Rally for Planned Parentood Yesterday (26th)

[tanyahp]

I went to the downtown L.A. rally for Wisconsin and for Planned Parenthood yesterday! It was fun, I walked about ten miles all told, and encountered some of my friends there unexpectedly. I love having activist friends! Here is a picture of me at the rally:

Comments

[viomisehunt]

Good to see activism is alive. I'm afraid that when it comes to the health, safety of women we are close to going back to the Dark Ages. It is sad that Planned Parenthood gets portrayed as abortion clinics only. It's sad that this country has gotten to the place when a woman cannot privately and confidently go to her Doctor to sanely discuss her reproductive health without the Doctor having to inject moral aesthetics of a Congressperson who learned the aspects of female health from the adviser page of Playboy or still believes excessive bleeding, PMS, anemia, tumors, infertility, pain, septicemia, and mortality of mothers and babies is all part of Eve's curse. Then again after reading about the experimentation of the past years --something people of color were long aware of -- we do have to be cautious when choosing a physician.

[tanyahp]

I knew about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. I didn't know about many of the others. I did know about the forced sterilizations of mental patients. My mother teaches a course on the Eugenics movement. Adolf Hitler and the German doctors actually used American physicians and papers written by American medical doctors to justify their own experiments and ethnic cleansing. We in the US have a direct and indirect responsibility for the atrocities of World War Two. I wonder why the mainstream media has taken so long to get ahold of it, and also am suspicious of the motives for why it is being published now (I suspect criticism of the Obama administration's push for healthcare is part of it: this may be an attempt to discredit all "government" health care.) I agree with the need for caution in choosing a physician: the system is still racist, and people of color continue to get worse medical care than white people (basing this on both studies I've read as well as first-hand horror stories.)