“Why do we have an abortion rate 20% higher than France’s (and more than twice as high as Germany’s), especially considering most doctors here won’t perform them? The answer is any country that has universal health care, where contraception is free, where child care is free or inexpensive, where there is less poverty because people don’t become bankrupt over medical bills — those societies are simply going to have fewer unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.
And there the mask gets pulled off the Bart Stupaks and the “Christians.” If the statistics show that countries with government-provided universal health care and nearly-free abortions are, in fact, the countries with the fewest abortions, then why on earth wouldn’t the Right be the first in line to support universal health care?
Because it isn’t about “universal health care.” It’s about controlling women, period. It’s about sticking your nose in other people’s business. It’s about pushing your religious beliefs on everyone else because voices in your head tell you your Jesus is The One — even though your Jesus never said one single solitary word in any of the four gospels of the Bible about abortion or fertilized eggs being human. You’ve just gone and made it up about “life beginning at conception.” Jesus never said that. The little voice in your head said that, the same little voice that wants your grubby paws on women’s uteruses. You need help. Please get some help and leave the rest of us alone, Mr. Stupak and friends.
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Michael Moore: My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain (via veruca-assault)
I wish I could reblog this 1,000 times.
(via evangotlib)
The “Pro-Life” movement does not give a shit about you. These people do not care about your welfare. They do not care about your mental or physical health or your happiness. All they care about is punishing everyone with a vagina for having sex. Every single thing they say about sex, pregnancy, and abortion is a lie. They can go to hell. You decide what to do with your body — you and no one else, certainly not a bunch of hateful, bigoted fearmongers who don’t give a flying fuck about your welfare.
(via pro-choice-teddy-bear)
“Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.
Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.
Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.
Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.
Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.
Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
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Worry About Your Own Uterus: (via veruca-assault)
“Worry about your own uterus” wise wise words.
(via triplash)
(Source: dakotawhatever)
Face it. Your stubborn ignorance kills parents, children and friends alike. No, not a fetus. I’m talking about the pregnant person who in desperation seeks an illegal back alley abortion.
It’s almost a certainty that someone you know has gotten an abortion. What if instead they were gone. Another thing you need to ‘face’ is that with a ‘friend’ as judgmental as you, you probably don’t know which of your friends or family has gotten one. They’re not going to tell you. But just imagine it could have been absolutely any of your friends or family that can bear children.
People deserve a safe way out. “Give birth or risk dying” should NEVER fucking be a serious decision someone should have to make. Even if you don’t agree with abortion, can we agree on that?
^ This commentary.
It doesn’t make any sense to say “well yeah I would agree with it if the mother’s life was in danger but other than that…”
Just stop there.
Your rationale behind abortion being “inhumane” is the most tangible form of slut-shaming. You want that person to suffer for breaking the conventional norms of the perfect society you envision; one where all women would copulate for procreation or at the most liberal, only in committed relationships/marriage where the couple desires and/or is ready for a child.
Most of you don’t go all the way. And that’s the fundamental flaw in your logic. If that baby really is what you stood for, then there is no excuse. The women who abort because they are high risk are still killing them.
See you’re not fighting for a humanitarian cause. It is rather far from it. You fight belligerently and blamelessly to keep that sheltered world you continued to build all these years for yourself. One where women know their place. And where the women who do follow the rules are ultimately rewarded for doing so with blissful, privileged acceptance.
That’s all there is to it. You’re afraid of someone breaking the rules you need to follow and going unpunished.
(Source: prolife4ever)
Roe V. World: A Doctor's Manifesto for Fighting Transvaginal Ultrasounds(via @Jezebel)
Where is the physician outrage? Right. Here. I’m speaking, of course, about the required-transvaginal-ultrasound thing that seems to be the flavor-of-the-month in politics.
[Let’s be real for a minute. It is partly the fault of the doctors who all assume that politics has nothing to do with them.]
Hey Its Not A Choice It’s A Child, you asked for it, so here it is!
Keep in mind that there are sooooo many.. So, so many posts where you’ve claimed false information as true. So many that to list them all would take hours. Here are just a FEW examples strummed up by casually browsing your blog, and I’ve included the responses as well.
Keep in mind that these are just your posts proper, not the asks that you’ve answered. I would be up all night if I tackled all of your asks.
Your post,
response to it.
Your post,
response to it.
Another post,
another response.
Here’s yet another post,
and yet another response.
Your post
Simple response: Gay people are not allowed the right to marry other gay people (in the US) because of members of Catholic and Christian churches petitioning otherwise. Your FAQ even states that people of the same sex cannot marry.
Your post,
Simple response: The leading cause of death is heart disease.
A response to your FAQ
(from your personal blog), admitting that you haven’t researched transgenderism before posting claims about it on your pro-life blog.
Also, before you say “but I didn’t make all of those pictures/stories, I just posted them.” Exactly. You posted them to your blog, claiming them as true or claiming to support them. Or at least posting them to your site before thinking about it, which also means you’re blindly supporting it. If you didn’t support it or back it fully, you should not post it.
EDIT: I informed the blog about this post in an ask. LET’S SEE IF THEY RESPOND *Gets popcorn*Yes! Let’s see what happens!
They responded!
So I’m just going to reblog this if that’s okay and respond to their response so I can keep this topic as organized as possible, haha.
HEY IT’S NOT A CHOICE IT’S A CHILD:
You didn’t respond to the forceps picture.
You didn’t respond to the Issues pointed out on the FAQ.
You didn’t respond to the lack of transgenderism research issue.
When someone gives you evidence of a mistake, the professional thing to do is admit that mistake, fix it, and move on. Ignoring the mistake for whatever reason is not professional. “Having a busy life” is not an excuse. If you have the time to go on your blog at all, that’s enough time to address and fix these mistakes that, by the way, you asked for someone to point out to you.
ON SLAVERY
“Slave owners could hardly be seen as the stereotypical good, Christian, person”
The term “good” here is relative. I hate to inform you about the slavery thing being a christian thing, but it was a christian thing.
“I was talking about the real Christians”
The only prerequisite for being called Christian is to follow Christ’s teachings in the Bible. If you follow Christ, you’re a “real” christian.
Being allowed to own slaves is clearly marked in the bible. These people were following what their Bible said is okay. These slave owners were “real” Christians even, even if you don’t agree with what they did. They even converted their slaves to Christianity as well.
“If you’re trying to be a good Christian person, slave owners would not be your role model.”
That’s what you say today, but it was the Christan who didn’t want to end slavery back then. It was the secular people who ended slavery. History can be a tough cookie, eh?
ON HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS
The right to marry is a right. The right to adopt children is a right. You’re not supporting their rights (plural) if you completely abandon defending their rights after they’re born.
You saying “gays can’t marry or adopt, but hey! We don’t want to murder them!” is NOT defending their rights.
ON ABORTIONS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT
You didn’t specify any states at all in the original post, which defaults into a generalized statement as a whole. Communication 101.
ON THE EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT PICTURE
Fetuses can’t consciously control their movements until at least week 25 (pdf source: www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/CR/CR-Babies-09.pdf).
Any other movements earlier on are resulting from reflexes or spasms while the muscles develop. In the womb thumb sucking is a reflex, not a conscious effort.
Most zygotes (at 3 weeks) don’t have a heart that can beat yet. It’s still a cluster of cells with organs that are just beginning to develop and cannot function fully yet. At 3 weeks, some zygotes haven’t even implanted to the uterus yet, and the woman may not actually be pregnant.
Here’s another source for that. Earliest a heart can beat is 5 weeks.
Fetus doesn’t hiccup or breathe anionic fluid until at least 3 months (12-13 weeks).
It needs to have a diaphragm that is developed enough to do so, which doesn’t occur until that time.
Brainwaves:
Fetuses don’t develop the needed capabilities to produce electrochemical signals in the brain until much later in the pregnancy, closer to 25 weeks.
Source 1
Source 2
Source 3
Nrcl.org is a pro-life site known for posting exaggerated, biased information.
That livestrong.com source doesn’t list any sources or studies either. Both of those sites listed information and claimed it was true with no sources.
I’m also beginning to wonder about this other source (ehd.org) that you post from for every embryology answer you give. That’s the only source I can find for the information you’re posting. Every other fetal development site I check does not sync with the information that site has. Sounds fishy to me.
ON LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE UNITED STATES
It’s still heart disease. Your response didn’t change the facts.
Your overall response didn’t sum up or change any information.
You asked to be given posts where you had posted incorrect information, and I did. You ignored some of the posts I brought up, and for the other posts you either gave me no new information for your side of the argument, or you simply denied that they were incorrect.
Are you going to respond again?
Because I still have more popcorn.
EDIT: I informed them of this post in another ask. Let’s see if they respond. *Continues to eat popcorn*Very awesome.
Need more proof on how much sense they don’t make? The only reliable part of this it that this is a very authentic example of a pro-life asshole.
An Uppercut Straight To Hell: Arizona Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Not Inform Women Of Prenatal Issues To Prevent Abortions
It’s called a “wrongful birth” bill and it’s all about preventing women from having an abortion, even if it kills them. The Arizona Senate passed a bill this week that gives doctors a free pass to not inform pregnant women of prenatal problems because such…
When all fails, “let women die.” If we can’t make them carry be broodmares of their own free will, the next best thing would be to just kill them all.
Eight female state senators in Georgia walked out of the Senate chambers on Thursday to protest two bills that hinder access to abortion and contraceptives. All eight female democratic senators left the chambers together after two bills they oppose passed the Republican-led Senate. From Atlanta’s WXIA, the legislation:
- Prohibits state employees from using state health benefits to pay for abortions
- Does not allow employees of private religious institutions to demand that their insurance policies pay for contraceptives
“We stood together to protest what we feel is absolutely a war on women here in Georgia and we want to sound the alert to Georgians,” said Sen. Nan Orrick.
Republican state senator Joshua McKoon said of the legislation, “What I would say is the war that’s being waged is on a relative minority in this country that has strong beliefs that are protected by the First Amendment.”
The bills now heads to the House, where both are expected to pass.
The senators who walked out: Sen. Gloria Butler, Sen. Gale Davenport, Sen. Nan Orrock, Sen. Freddie Powell Sims, Sen. Donzella James, Sen. Miriam Paris, Sen. Valencia Seay and Sen. Horacena Tate. Looks like I’ll be spending my Friday night emailing these senators to thank them for taking a stance on an incredibly important issue.
Look at that fierce HBIC.
This is EVERYTHING.
There’s a reason why so many believe the issue is not important.
It stems from personal privilege. Coming from a more wealthy [true to the definition of a “middle-class” socioeconomic status] family makes abortion and contraception very accessible to begin with. You’d be living in a more liberal minded family/neighborhood where the very education on contraception is possible.
And no surprise here: Having insurance or just being rich makes birth control pills, Depo-Provera shots, and IUD’s very much more affordable.
So enough with the “just don’t do it if you can’t afford it” bullshit. Sex and the exploration of our sexuality is not a goddamn 1% privilege thing. Neither is anything in healthcare to begin with. Because along with the capacity to love and express love, it is a human thing and a natural right.
(Source: pantslessprogressive)
Fuck yeah, feminists!: Komen Just Released an Apology and Reversed Their Decision
I’ll still forever side eye them, though. Never donating.
Check out what it says at their blog:
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.
Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.
Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.
It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone’s politics.
Moral of the story? Don’t fuck with our Planned Parenthood.
Things like this make me very optimistic for the future. It reminds me that there is hope. That we will win eventually. In the end, they will all know what bull the entire cult of anti-choice is.
“Don’t fuck with our Planned Parenthood” indeed.
STFU Fauxminists!: I've seen some reblogs of my post saying that the abortion instructions are really terrible because you need a...
That’s not always true.
Some sites sell it without a prescription, like this one.
Also, for those concerned that the instructions aren’t safe, it clearly says that there is more information on the website, and the group is headed by a doctor, the woman who originally posted the image. Her name is Dr. Rebecca Gomperts.
So chill out folks. Women on Waves has been helping pregnant folks in countries in which abortion is illegal for many years. Pretty sure they’ve got this shit on lock. I’d feel much better about someone trying their prescribed methods of self-induced abortion than to try some of the other methods that are performed out there.
Also, as an update, Facebook apologized for the removing the image, so I guess that’s good.
In a way this sort of thing actually made my day. With all the states in this country where you may as well have to go overseas to procure an abortion… I can’t imagine having to resort to this. It is a means and would not be needed if abortion could be easily procured on the basis of a woman’s fundamental right to choose.
This.
