(LifeSiteNews) — Planned Parenthood tweeted a picture yesterday of one of its billboards that reads, “Virginity is a social construct,” adding that it believes it is a “patriarchal” and harmful idea.
“The idea of virginity comes from outdated — let’s be real, patriarchal— ways of thinking that hurts everyone,” the country’s largest abortion provider tweeted Thursday.
The idea of virginity comes from outdated — let’s be real, patriarchal— ways of thinking that hurts everyone. 📢 pic.twitter.com/QYmNbEZzbw
— Planned Parenthood (@PPFA) June 29, 2023
More than a few commentators suggested Planned Parenthood considers it to be in their best business interests to promote sex resulting in babies that “need” to be aborted, with one noting that this is despite their “presumed” goal that people only become parents when “planned.”
“We know you need promiscuity to make money. It’s gross,” commented Jessica O’Donnell.
“Funny how an organization named ‘planned parenthood’ (presumably to advocate for people to only become a parent when they plan for it) would tweet something that seems to suggest that abstaining from sex comes from a ‘patriarchal way of thinking that hurts everyone,’” noted Matt Antar, finance chairman of the New York Young Republican Club.
UPDATE (03/07/23): Walgreens won’t dispense abortion pills in 20 states
The pressure is paying off. Walgreens’ plan to dispense abortion pills nationwide is now in tatters, with the pharmaceutical giant announcing that it won’t mail the pills to, or sell them within, 20 states.
The news comes after 20 Republican attorneys general warned CVS and Walgreens that doing so would be in violation of federal law and that they were opening themselves to penalties.
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In response to Planned Parenthood’s tweet, Josie Glabach, known on Twitter as the “Redheaded Libertarian,” remarked, “Sounds like something a pedo would say.”
When “theater artist” and “dog mom” Molly Lyons protested that Planned Parenthood’s message made no mention of minors, Glabach replied, “If virginity is a social construct (it’s not) then why protect girls from pedos at all if it’s all make believe? It can’t be emotional innocence if you’re also okay with letting males into girls spaces.”
Many feminists argue that characterizing virginity (until marriage) as a positive ideal disproportionately “polices” women, curbing their “freedom” for “pleasure,” while men are unfairly held to a lesser standard of sexual purity. Thus, they see virginity as an ideal derived from a “patriarchy.”
However, evidence shows that women and their children overwhelmingly bear the brunt of suffering when women flout the ideal of virginity before marriage.
Upon the introduction of the contraceptive pill in countries like the U.S. and the U.K., many women became uninhibited about sex before marriage, since they felt the prospect of pregnancy was “removed.” The result was that by the mid-1970s the “majority of newly married American couples had experienced sex before marriage,” according to the Journal of the European Economic Association.
The social fallout since then has been enormous. Most egregiously, demand for legal abortion spiked, and then actual abortions skyrocketed after Roe v. Wade, which enabled the killing of at least 64 million preborn babies. This fact alone turns on its head Planned Parenthood’s idea that virginity is a harmful construct.
Disregarding the importance of virginity until marriage has also resulted in countless numbers of women forming deep emotional attachments to men who don’t want to commit to them for life or father their children; and who to varying degrees treat their women as objects, for their own self-gratification. Women who insist on keeping “accidental” babies they made with such a man are often abandoned by their partner, leaving the child to a fatherless home.
Upholding virginity until tying the knot also makes for happier marriages. Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who “have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a ‘very happy’ marriage.” The percentage of those who report the same drops significantly for just one additional sexual partner, and gradually gets lower overall as the number of partners increases.
Wolfinger also “found that women with zero or one previous sex partners before marriage were also least likely to divorce, while those with 10 or more were most likely.” Notably, virginal brides had a much lower chance of divorce than the rest: “Just 6 percent of their marriages dissolved within five years, compared with 20 percent for most people,” The Atlantic reported.