by: KATHERINE CUSUMANO
“At the end of the day, it’s not someone not believing in abortion that’s the problem,” Zoey Deutch says. The actress, best known for her role in Vampire Academy, reached out to Planned Parenthood last month in an effort to become more involved with women’s health activism, and we’re discussing a recent conversation she had with a man who brushed off the topic by saying he was personally opposed to abortion — “It kind of took me a moment to step back and not be offended or annoyed,” Deutch says. But the problem, she continues, is not with any individual’s beliefs — it’s “forcing other people, other women, to have no other option but to abide by their beliefs, and Planned Parenthood makes it a choice.”
Deutch is well-acquainted with expressing her views — she’s expressed support for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and tweeted about efforts to provide clean water to underserved communities — and her Planned Parenthood support is no different.
“This year, we’ve seen an unprecedented attack on women’s health from extreme politicians in Congress and across the country who are just pushing to ban abortion entirely, roll back women’s access to health care,” she says. “They’re threatening to shut down the government over providing basic reproductive health care to millions of Americans.”
Last month, the crisis over funding for women’s reproductive health care in the United States boiled over when a congressional majority voted to defund Planned Parenthood. This crisis had been simmering throughout the summer — especially after recordings were released purporting to show the organization’s officials speaking about selling aborted fetal tissue for research. Public figures of all walks took to Twitter, employing the hashtag #StandWithPP and changing their avatars to pink-filtered images to express their solidarity with Planned Parenthood. In the midst of all this, Deutch took her activism a step further, posting a candid and outspoken open letter about the services the organization provides and why it’s a crucial element of American health care, in the hopes of reaching “teenagers or people my age.”
The actress is part of a contingent of celebrities who have voiced their support of ready access to reproductive health and family planning initiatives, and Planned Parenthood in particular. Some of the biggest names include Sara Bareilles, Lena Dunham, and Hillary Clinton herself — even Ariana Grande tweeted an image to her 32.9 million followers. By comparison to some of her peers, Deutch notes, “I’m nobody.” (Um, okay — at last count, she had 137,000 Twitter followers.) She’s glad her fellow stars are speaking out on social media. “That’s something that starts a conversation among young kids and their parents,” she says. “That is a big deal.”
Pop culture — whether movies, music, television, or celebrity — has the potential to start important conversations, Deutch says. While “celebrity activism” might be occasionally maligned, public figures have the power to keep those conversations moving, and can greenlight or veto projects through their involvement. For Deutch, who’s known primarily for film (she has several in the works, including The Year of Spectacular Men and Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some), she’s not supportive of movies that don’t represent women’s rights in a positive, realistic light. Though abortion appears infrequently in film and television, Deutch says, when it does, it’s often in a stigmatized way — and she can make an impact by not associating with those projects.
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