Shonda Rhimes isn’t just about doing her thang in the entertainment industry, the mogul also has a strong interest in women’s healthcare! She’s so interested, in fact, she’s taking her local involvement with the organization, in Los Angeles, to a national level!
She was invited by Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards to join the national committee and she jumped at the opportunity.
“When someone you really admirecalls on you to serve, you say yes,” she told Elle. “The fact is that womens health is under fire right now. And so to me, it feels like its important to help fight back. I just want to be of service. And Ill do that any way I can.”
Why Shonda, you ask? Cecile says:
what she brings not only to this board, but frankly to the world, is her commitment to lift up the stories of people who dont always get heard, whether its in the way she talks about LGBT issues or womens reproductive health care or [the way she] centers people of color on television. To me, the most important work we can do now at Planned Parenthood is make sure that the voices of all those folks are heard, particularly in this political environment. And theres just no one better at utilizing the power of storytelling than Shonda Rhimes.
We agree with Shonda when she says that people need to start being concerned about even the issues to don’t directly affect them.
Id put it this way: There are a lot of men who run things. And so for them, if its not about them, its considered an other. I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason were all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesnt concern us,” she said. “Thats the whole point. The fact that Ive never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that Ive never been in need of medical services I couldnt afford or didnt have access to, doesnt mean I shouldnt be concerned about the fact that other women dont have that access. I think thats important. The same way there shouldnt be men going around saying, Well, its just a womens issue because it doesnt involve their uteruses because they dont have them. Thats such a simplistic and silly way to look at this. Obviously, it concerns them. It should obviously concern them. When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier.
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source: Elle, http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a44372/shonda-rhimes-cecile-richards-interview-planned-parenthood-board/
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