These two are related. I want to examine the barking that often passes for political debate. You all make your living by using words. You know how language forms us as it informs us. Even many who asserted their rights to equal opportunity and equal pay.
Language shapes the public debate that shapes public policy.
Let's look at how women's reproductive health and freedoms are damaged in the crossfire, through choice of topics, choice of words, and choice of positioning. Let's start with choice of topics. The birth control pill is 40 years old. Yet oddly, only one-third of insurance plans cover oral contraceptives for women. Even fewer cover all FDA-approved methods of birth control.