How anti-choice organizations are slowly making their way into respectability: a 🧵. I’ve been witnessing the slow legitimization of #antichoice orgs in global spaces and conversations and this is concerning. 10 years ago, no one save the similarly conservative would have been
Caught dead talking and strategizing with them. It’s 2022, #SRHR are under severe backlash and constant threat, yet the artisans of said backlash have access to mainstream strategic conversations and briefings. They now benefit from several platforms from which they can reinforce
Their anti #SRHR messages, in seemingly all impunity. To me this highlight two things: how conservative populist gvts have relied on these orgs to access power and rewarding them for their support by giving them time and space and how these orgs have instrumentalized human rights
Discourse in a bid for respectability, emphasizing concepts like ‘the family’ (read, the nuclear heteronormative patriarchal) family and freedom of religion and belief to weaken human rights protections for #SRHR. The strength of #feminist movements has meant that we still make
Progress on #SRHR but this is a constant struggle and threats are growing. Normalizing anti-choice organizations while actual #WHRDs are being silenced and their space restricted is a dangerous sign that women’s rights are being trivialized. How can it be that denying a person’s
Bodily autonomy is now being taken as a ‘point of view’ and not the blatant gender-based discrimination it is? It isn’t about censorship, but about respect for intl human rights law and its goals and purposes. Ah, and respect for the rights of half of this planet’s population.
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