Planned Parenthood is officially endorsing Graham Platner in his effort to defeat incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Politico announced on June 22.
The endorsement comes after Platner’s Democratic primary opponent, Gov. Janet Mills, suspended her campaign. Planned Parenthood previously endorsed Mills because of her staunch pro-abortion views, calling her “a champion for reproductive freedom in the Senate with the ferocity and dedication it demands.”
Though Planned Parenthood’s first champion dropped out, the organization shouldn’t be too upset with Platner. The two share many things in common. Most notably, a hatred for women and a love for the abortion death culture.
The Nazi-tattooed politician has an undeniable past of demeaning women. In past Reddit posts, Platner made light of rape in the military, saying, “If you’re so worried about it to buy Kevlar underwear you’d think you might not get blacked out f—-d up around people you aren’t comfortable with.”
The Washington Post found that statement among “a large cache of online messages that were deleted shortly before Platner launched his [campaign].”
Platner also allegedly said that if anyone broke into his home, “I would rape them,” but not in “a sexual way, not in a gay way … to show them that I’m dominant.”
One of Platner’s former girlfriends, who described him as “the most toxic literally abusive man on earth who destroyed my life,” said Platner repeatedly used force to assert himself. She stated that Platner “frequently grabbed her by the shoulders and once yanked her out of a taxi by her wrist,” the Guardian reported. “During one argument … he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was ‘calm,'” she told The New York Times.
She also said that Platner constantly cheated and “had overlapping relationships with other women,” while also referring to women as “hatchet wounds,” a crude reference to female anatomy.
Two other women Platner dated spoke to The New York Times and agreed there were “patterns of heavy drinking and womanizing.” One woman stated that Platner made her feel like “collateral damage to the world that is his.”
Platner continued to belittle women after he got married, reportedly sending sexual messages to women online and being active on multiple dating apps.
His disdain for women tracks with his pro-abortion worldview. Platner openly states on his campaign website that he wants to “keep government out of our private lives,” yet “support a strong federal guarantee of the right to choose.” He clarified at the Planned Parenthood endorsement ceremony that he desires abortion rights to be enshrined in federal law. “I will never forgive establishment Democrats for many years never taking the opportunity to codify reproductive rights in federal law,” he said.
Platner also publicly denounced Collins for her vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying that she helped overturn Roe v. Wade. In a post on X, Platner advocated for creating life through IVF while simultaneously calling Roe v. Wade a “grim reminder that freedom of choice has been stripped from millions of women.”
Planned Parenthood shares Platner’s sentiments. Abortion should be readily available to all women to ruin their lives, instead of pro-woman and pro-family alternatives. Abortion tells women that an incredible part of their body that separates them from men is actually a source of oppression. The ability to grow and cultivate a human soul is not a blessing, but a curse that makes women, as Platner believes, less than men and little more than “hatchet wounds” for sexual gratification.
The late 1800s, feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman first argued this in her book Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Gilman thought from a Darwinist perspective that women were physically different from men because they were less developed than the other sex. When Planned Parenthood and Platner demean women through violence to their bodies or minds, they assert the same false, outdated claim.
