00:00Why are we still fighting over access to reproductive health care?
00:04Access to birth control undermines traditional gender roles, and those are really important
00:09to many conservative ideologies.
00:11If women can control their own fertility, men can't control women.
00:15So restricting or denying access to birth control is a move to keep women in traditional
00:20gender roles at a policy level.
00:23We have a pretty puritanical view of women having sex for pleasure.
00:26When we do do it, the appropriate punishment is carrying a baby to term.
00:30Unless that sex wasn't for pleasure, and then that baby is God's gift.
00:37Denying access to birth control and sex education hits poor black and brown women the hardest,
00:42keeping them dependent on social services.
00:45And this perpetuates racism and reinforces a stereotype that they are hypersexual welfare
00:50queens who are just working the system.
00:51This makes it easier to further exploit black and brown women in the labor market.
00:56Poor women don't have as many kids when they have access to birth control.
01:00But it's really beneficial for businesses for poor women to have babies because it creates
01:05an oversupply of cheap labor.
01:07And that cheap labor allows us to do a lot of things like make cheap products and go to
01:12war.
01:12The more workers who are desperate for jobs means that companies can aggressively cut wages
01:17and benefits that boost their bottom line.
01:20So, the next time you see something in the headlines about the defunding of women's healthcare,
01:25you'll know what we're really talking about.
01:30See you next time.
