{"id":222805,"date":"2020-04-30T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=222805"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:54:36","slug":"rose-mcgowan-says-planned-parenthood-oppresses-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rose-mcgowan-says-planned-parenthood-oppresses-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress and #MeToo advocate Rose McGowan slams abortion industry for supporting the ‘oppression of women’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a now-deleted tweet<\/a>, long-time Planned Parenthood supporter, actress Rose McGowan,\u00a0wrote that pro-abortion, so-called “women’s rights” groups — including EMILY’s List, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and NARAL Pro-Choice America — are in favor of the oppression of women. And more specifically, of Black women.<\/p>\n

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McGowan’s surprising tweet was a response to Hanna Trudo of the Daily Beast who wrote, “New: We contacted 10 top women’s groups about the Tara Reade allegation against @JoeBiden, including Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood Action Fund & NARAL Pro-Choice America, among others. None provided comment….”<\/p>\n

In response, McGowan tweeted, “I can answer your question .@hctrudo These women’s groups say they are for women, that is misogynoir, they are for the status quo oppression of women. If it ended, they’d have no job.”<\/p>\n

Within two hours, her comments were retweeted nearly 200 times and liked by over 600 people — and with good reason. McGowan is absolutely right. Though she has spent years supporting Planned Parenthood — and in 2016 even tweeted that the abortion giant “should be funded, supported, & appreciated” — it appears she may be starting to see inconsistencies.<\/p>\n

In recent years, McGowan also had a relationship with EMILY’s List, appearing in a “Women Can Stop Trump” video<\/a> for the organization before the 2016 presidential election. Now, with the group’s failure to speak out against Joe Biden’s sexual assault allegations, perhaps McGowan is seeing a double standard. For pro-abortion groups to speak against someone “on their own side,” so to speak, could be counterproductive to their mission<\/a>. As McGowan said, these groups need women to remain oppressed in order to keep their jobs. Women don’t walk out of abortion appointments with their fists pumped high in the air in victory. As pro-life author and speaker\u00a0Frederica Mathewes-Green so famously said<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>“No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice-cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg.”<\/p>\n

Abortion Industry Oppresses Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

For abortion profiteers, there’s reason to convince<\/a> women to abort. Past employees have noted that Planned Parenthood actually has abortion quotas<\/a>, and in order to meet their goals, they must sell abortion. Girls are groomed for abortion starting with comprehensive (often Planned Parenthood-affiliated)\u00a0sex ed<\/a>, which\u00a0encourages<\/a> girls to partake in dangerous sexual practices. They are also taught that it would be too difficult for them<\/a> to be mothers\u00a0while in school<\/a> or while pursuing their careers<\/a>. Women are taught not that they are free<\/em> to choose, but that they have<\/em> to choose<\/a> between their own children and their best-laid plans.<\/p>\n

Pregnancy discrimination<\/a> in the workplace<\/a> exists, and the abortion industry – rather than fight against that injustice – has been known to use these financial, mental, and emotional pressures to convince<\/a> women that abortion is their best or only real option. Considering the vulnerable state of the women experiencing unplanned pregnancies, the abortion industry functions in a\u00a0predatory<\/a>\u00a0manner. One study revealed that over 73 percent of post-abortive women felt\u00a0pressured<\/a> to abort. Women who are pregnant because of rape are often used as scapegoats to keep abortion legal, but many of these women have said their abortions were actually\u00a0far worse<\/a> than rape.<\/p>\n

Abortion businesses including Planned Parenthood have been caught\u00a0lying<\/a>\u00a0to women about the development of their children within the womb<\/a>, calling their preborn babies “blobs of tissue<\/a>.” Live Action’s Inhuman<\/a>\u00a0investigation exposed this when investigators visited abortion businesses and found abortionists including Dr. Laura Mercer claiming that at 23 weeks a preborn child “doesn’t even look like a baby yet.”<\/p>\n