The Point: The Rise to Erase Women
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
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| 0:00.0 | If only, there was a word for that. |
| 0:01.6 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.0 | On the anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, |
| 0:06.2 | the ACLU celebrated the liberal justice's legacy |
| 0:09.4 | with a slightly edited quote. |
| 0:11.2 | Originally, Ginsburg wrote this, |
| 0:12.9 | the decision whether or not to bear a child |
| 0:14.7 | is central to a woman's life, |
| 0:16.1 | to her well-being and dignity. |
| 0:17.9 | It's a decision she must make for herself. |
| 0:20.5 | In the Twitter post, the ACLU, |
| 0:22.2 | edited out the words, woman, her, and she from the Ginsburg quote and replaced them with |
| 0:26.8 | person, they, and them. The result was anything but quotable. Then, days later, a British medical |
| 0:32.6 | journal declared this. Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected. |
| 0:39.1 | If only there were a word for people who got pregnant or who have female body parts, |
| 0:43.0 | the push here to separate women from their bodies is weird. |
| 0:46.6 | But more than that, it's Gnostic. |
| 0:48.4 | It denies the physical reality of who women are. |
| 0:51.2 | You cannot champion women's rights if you deny who they are. For the |
| 0:55.2 | Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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