Let’s set the stage. The Supreme Court, now essentially an overpriced group chat for anti-woman ideologues in matching robes, just gave South Carolina—and by extension, any other Bible-thumping state—the go-ahead to cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. Because, apparently, basic healthcare is now a controversial opinion.
I don’t know how to say this gently, so I won’t:
You stupid fucking hacks.
This isn’t about “life.” It’s about control. It’s about fear. It’s about people—mostly men who couldn’t locate a clitoris with a search warrant—waging war on an organization because it dares to offer options.
But First, a Quick Reality Check for the Unbothered But Loud:
Planned Parenthood is not some underground abortion rave where feminists high-five over fetal tissue. It is a national healthcare provider. Let me say that again: healthcare. As in:
- Pap smears
- Breast exams
- Contraceptives
- STD screenings
- Cancer detection
- Sex education
- Infertility services
- Prenatal care
- Pregnancy support
- Oh, and yeah, abortion, too—because it’s legal, moral, and often life-saving.
But abortion is only 3% of what they do. That’s it. Three. Percent. That’s not a baby-killing factory. That’s a healthcare provider with a side hustle in bodily autonomy.
So Why the GOP Obsession?
Because Planned Parenthood does something radical:
It trusts women.
And if there’s one thing the GOP hates more than critical race theory and books with gay characters, it’s trusting women to make their own damn choices.
They don’t want women educated about their bodies. They want them afraid, dependent, pregnant, and silent. It’s much easier to legislate a uterus when its owner is too sick, broke, or terrified to fight back.
They call themselves pro-life. But you’ll never see them vote for:
- Universal healthcare
- Free birth control
- Maternity leave
- Affordable childcare
- Sex education
- Gun control (you know, to protect actual children)
Because the “pro-life” brand only extends from conception to crowning. After that, you’re on your own. God bless.
Let’s Talk About Medicaid
Here’s the part they really don’t want you to understand: this isn’t just about Planned Parenthood. It’s about you, your sister, your mother, your daughter, your friend. It’s about the millions of low-income Americans—mostly women—who use Medicaid to access basic reproductive healthcare.
Cutting Medicaid funding doesn’t stop abortion.
It stops Pap smears.
It stops breast exams.
It stops birth control access, meaning…
You guessed it: more unplanned pregnancies, which leads to more abortions.
It’s almost like these lawmakers don’t actually care about life, and instead care about scoring points with their evangelical base who still believe tampons are tiny demons of moral decay.
What They Really Want
This Supreme Court decision isn’t about state rights or taxpayer dollars or whatever bullshit excuse they put on the PowerPoint. It’s about punishing poor people for having sex. It’s about sending a message: if you’re not rich, white, straight, and male, you don’t get healthcare.
That’s the truth.
They don’t hate abortion.
They hate that poor women have options.
Let’s Be Clear:
Planned Parenthood isn’t perfect, but it has done more to reduce abortion rates, prevent cervical cancer, and educate people on safe sex than every GOP-led abstinence program combined.
You know what doesn’t prevent abortions?
Cutting off healthcare.
You know what does?
Access.
Education.
Contraceptives.
Autonomy.
But the GOP doesn’t care about that. Because then, the system might actually work, and God forbid women stop dying in back alleys with coat hangers while Brett Kavanaugh enjoys a beer.
In Conclusion:
The anti-woman wing of the Supreme Court can spin this however they want, but we see it for what it is: a politically-motivated, misogynistic, classist, theocratic wet dream. They’re not pro-life. They’re anti-woman. Anti-poor. Anti-choice. Anti-dignity.
If you support Planned Parenthood, speak louder. If you’ve benefited from it, share your story. If you’re furious, stay furious.
Because until we stop pretending this is a policy debate and start calling it what it really is—a goddamn war on women—we’ll keep losing rights while they keep hiding behind their rosaries and red ties.