CTA: Take a few minutes and tell Penn Med to STOP Erasing Women!

Write or Call In CampaignCTA: Take a few minutes and tell Penn Med to STOP Erasing Women!

Posted November 7, 2023 by Lilith-Fair in Activism

Last month, fellow Ovarit member codercat alerted us to Penn Med publishing a press release on pregnancy complications that did not reference "women" even once. Her post is here. Thanks to her help, we have put together a response to Penn Med to call out their systemic erasure of women.

In our Women: Adult Human Female Substack, we published a Call To Action for our subscribers to email Frank Otto, the contact person at Penn Med responsible for this unacceptable practice.

Please join us and make noise. If we want this to stop, it is not enough to post our complaints on Internet forums. We must make our voices heard.

In our CTA, we included a template you can use to email Frank Otto. Please take a few minutes and send a complaint. If exposing your identity is a concern, you can always email without using your real name and an email address that will not identify you.

Here's the link to our Substack:

https://wahf.substack.com/p/call-to-action-now-demand-penn-med

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AnnieMacGiver

November 7, 2023

Sent, and I used my real name and email because only women give birth.

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Lilith-Fair [OP]

November 8, 2023

Thank you!

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WatcherattheGates

November 7, 2023

Done!

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Posted November 7, 2023 by Lilith-Fair

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