{"id":242714,"date":"2021-04-10T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=242714"},"modified":"2021-04-09T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T19:46:15","slug":"women-learn-bodies-planned-parenthood-isnt-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-learn-bodies-planned-parenthood-isnt-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"Women need to learn about their bodies, but Planned Parenthood isn’t the one to teach them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent conversation<\/a> between actress and abortion activist Melissa McCarthy and Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson, both women appeared to repeatedly advocate for girls and women to have open and honest conversations about their reproductive systems. Unfortunately, neither woman acknowledged that Planned Parenthood is the last<\/em> logical place a girl or woman should go to actually learn about the beauty<\/a> of how her reproductive system is designed.<\/p>\n

Talking about reproduction\u00a0shouldn’t make women fear their fertility \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

McCarthy lamented the idea that “our bodies have become a political platform for politicians” adding, “the irony is, if I ever wanted to sit down and talk about my actual reproductive rights or my ovaries or my vagina, like, I feel like the same politicians that want to control it sure don’t want to talk about it. They’d be like… ‘oh! we don’t talk about lady parts!'” McGill Johnson concurred, relating how her own elderly mother chooses not to use anatomically correct names for private parts.<\/p>\n