There.
Religious pseudo-scientific claptrap is no match for logic and reason.
Oh, I like this one.
Broccoli makes everything better.
BROCCOLI RIGHTS.
Well if a fetus counts as a baby because it looks like a baby (actual argument I’ve heard) Then broccoli is a tree…right?
While waiting to give birth, Jordan was taken into the home of a “shepherding family” the agency hooked her up with, where — despite the fact she hadn’t yet decided on adoption — she was referred to exclusively as a “birth mother.” Says Jordan, “I felt like a walking uterus for the agency.” After she settled on an adoptive couple and gave birth,
Jordan cried all day and didn’t think she could relinquish the baby. She called her shepherding parents and asked if she could bring the baby home. They refused, chastising Jordan sharply. The counselor told the couple Jordan was having second thoughts and brought them, sobbing, into her recovery room. The counselor warned Jordan that if she persisted, she’d end up homeless and lose the baby anyway.
Jordan signed the adoption papers and went back to live with the shepherding family, who were “celebrating and asked why Jordan wouldn’t stop crying.” 5 days later she left, and when she later called the agency looking for the counseling they promised, her shepherding mother told her “You’re the one who spread your legs and got pregnant out of wedlock. You have no right to grieve for this baby.”
Many other women, says Joyce, have had similar experiences. Lured in with promises of support, counseling, a home, money, and an open adoption that will allow them to keep in touch with their children, they later realize that all the CPC folks ever wanted them to do was have the baby and get lost.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are so damn infuriating.
—Maria
Example: The Oldenburg Baby
You are not an abortion survivor if you just so happen to be born after x date. That’s like saying someone who was in America, in the comfort of their homes, during World War II, is a Holocaust survivor.
They’re not.
So, unless you actually survived an attempted abortion, you are NOT an abortion survivor.
(Source: whatilearnedinmy16years, via propaganda-for-life)
I can’t help but shake my head when people say that abortion, under any circumstance, falls under the category of healthcare.
Is the mother’s life at risk? If so, yes, healthcare is a suitable descriptor.
Was the conception an accident due to negligence? If so, no, an abortion does not constitute healthcare. And no, I don’t accept any arguments using post-natal ‘psychological impact’ as grounds for this argument, or economic difficulties for that matter. With choice comes responsibility.
First, every pregnant person’s life is at risk. Nowhere in the US is the maternal mortality rate zero. Please be specific about what percent risk of death you think is a cut-off.
It’s a funny thing that if somebody is in pain, treating that pain is healthcare. If somebody is tired, or feels ill, that’s healthcare. If somebody wants their body to be acting differently, that’s healthcare!
Getting a benign cyst removed, for example. Healthcare. Being able to control one’s pregnancy status? Definitely healthcare.
No failure of contraception is due to negligence. The cases that you call “negligence” are failures of education or access. Failures of culture and understanding.
Yes, with choice comes responsibility. Abortion ≠ irresponsibility.
If I’ve said this once I’ve said it a million times, and I will say it until I’m blue in the face if that’s what it takes. The only time someone doesn’t “take responsibility” for a pregnancy is by leaving a newborn in a dumpster or something. Giving birth is taking responsibility. Raising a child is taking responsibility. Putting a child up for adoption is taking responsibility. And ending a pregnancy is taking responsibility.
(Source: badb-catha, via bebinn)
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Del. David Englin (D-Alexandria)
[NB: more than just cis women need and want access to abortion care.]
(via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)
Based on his logic anyone who isn’t a virgin can’t be raped because they’ve already consented to sex. Consent once =/= infinite consent.
(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
Oh, wow. I’m random.: nikosnature: Oh, wow. I’m random.: Dear Anti Choicers who say “Just…
USE LOGIC, PLEASE.
If a person is in a vegetative state and the next of kin wants them taken off of life support, that is their legal right, right? YES.
A fetus’ next of kin is the pregnant person carrying it.
That person has every right to pull the plug.
And before you start in on the “BUT THE…______________
Fair, but a vegetative state is usually permanent. Pregnancy usually is not. Would you kill a person in a coma if you knew he was going to wake up in a couple months?
_______________
If he/she needed to be hooked up to my body in order to survive absolutely. If you think that a pregnant person should be obligated to remain pregnant simply to be a fetus’ life support system you are not only giving the fetus rights that are equal to the pregnant person’s, you’re giving them more rights.
If I needed a kidney and you happened to be a match, I couldn’t legally force you to hand yours over. Nor could I force you to give me your blood, bone marrow, tissue, nothing. Your body is yours. My body is mine. The fetus has its own body, but if it is in someone else’s body they have the right to remove it.This is another example of the mandated organ donor fallacy. Here are my favorite arguments against this fallacy:
a. A pregnancy is only 9 months. Organ donation is for life. There is an inequality between the demands of the two acts.
b. Despite what the prochoice lobby would like you to think, women do not find themselves pregnant, they do not randomly conceive. Women make specific and deliberate choices which get them pregnant. If you are of a certain faith persuasion, throughout all of history there has been one virgin birth, and even then, Mary made a very deliberate choice in receiving her child. If you were asked to give a kidney to some stranger and you had nothing to do with the reason why he needed a kidney, you do not have a legal obligation to give him a kidney. However, when you conceive a child, it is usually because YOU chose to have sex (barring the possibility of rape,) with full knowledge of the possible consequences.
c. There is a big difference between forcing someone to sacrifice for someone who is dying, (which may be a moral, but not a legal imperative,) and passing laws which ‘force’ people to abstain from killing others. Forced organ donations are wrong because they don’t give you the freedom of choosing whether to save someone’s life or not, while abolishing abortion is necessary for the same reasons laws preventing murder are necessary. There is a difference between not swimming out into the ocean to save someone, vs. holding their head under water.
It’s cute how you think you’re going to be able to change my mind about this, really. Let’s go point by point, mmkay?
1) Blood and bone marrow both take less than 9 moths to fully regenerate. Your liver will regenerate fully as long as 25% of it remains. Yet none of these things are compulsory, even though they could save thousands of lives.
2) Pregnancy is not 9 months, it’s 10. And the effects it has on the body don’t go away. A person’s body will never be the same as it was before they were pregnant. 3) Women do not make choices to become pregnant unless they want to be pregnant. Are you going to sit here and pretend that rape doesn’t happen? And sex does not automatically lead to pregnancy, so consent to sex isn’t consent to pregnancy. That’s like saying consent to swimming is consent to drowning.
4) Thanks to the pathetic state of sex education in this country, not everyone realizes that sex leads to pregnancy! A lot of people think that as long as they only have sex during specific times during their menstrual cycle they will not get pregnant. A lot of young men believe that pulling out works 100% of the time. Not everyone knows.
5) Actually if you knew anything about religion you would know that Mary was also the product of a virgin birth, Saint Anne was said to be a virgin mother throughout various times in history.
6) Either way, I don’t subscribe to an organized religion, so kindly keep your rosaries off of my ovaries.
7) When they find a way to let these fetuses come to term in test tubes that’s wonderful. Until then pregnant people have every right to remove from their body what they don’t want in it.
USE LOGIC, PLEASE.
If a person is in a vegetative state and the next of kin wants them taken off of life support, that is their legal right, right? YES.
A fetus’ next of kin is the pregnant person carrying it.
That person has every right to pull the plug.
And before you start in on the “BUT THE…Fair, but a vegetative state is usually permanent. Pregnancy usually is not. Would you kill a person in a coma if you knew he was going to wake up in a couple months?
If he/she needed to be hooked up to my body in order to survive absolutely. If you think that a pregnant person should be obligated to remain pregnant simply to be a fetus’ life support system you are not only giving the fetus rights that are equal to the pregnant person’s, you’re giving them more rights.
If I needed a kidney and you happened to be a match, I couldn’t legally force you to hand yours over. Nor could I force you to give me your blood, bone marrow, tissue, nothing. Your body is yours. My body is mine. The fetus has its own body, but if it is in someone else’s body they have the right to remove it.
Hey Kids: Don’t Use Birth Control. Don’t Have an Abortion. Above All, Don’t Have a Baby You Can’t Afford, Beause We Won’t Help You. xox #GOP
(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
— http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/way-it-was?page=4
(It should be noted that not all people who become pregnant are women.)
People say that you can’t have your cake and eat it, too, but family planning proves them wrong. The Family Planning Works Act — passed last week by the Maryland General Assembly — might as well have been called the “Win-Win-Win Act of 2011.”
First, and most important, this issue is a winner for the health of women and babies. Our legislation will provide 33,000 low- and moderate-income women in our state with family planning services, including pelvic exams; screenings for cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes; testing for sexually transmitted infections; pregnancy counseling; and, when appropriate, contraception.
Getting effective family planning to more women can help Maryland — one of the richest states in the nation — improve its dismal record of being the 13th-worst state for low-birth-weight babies and ninth-worst in infant mortality. Studies show that when a woman delays motherhood until she and her partner are ready to welcome a child into the world, their baby will be born healthier.
The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support - 121-15 in the House, and 39-7 in the Senate. Go Maryland!
Signal boosting. I hope this passes!
FUCK TO THE YES. ALL THE AWARDS WASHINGTON. AND A MILLION GOLD STARS.
(via bebinn)
What about HIS choice?
Well if there was a way to transplant the fetus into his body so that HE could be the pregnant one it WOULD be his choice!
(Source: reflections-of-shadows)
THIS is that “clump of tissue” you “got rid of”.
That is an alien. Obviously. No one should ever be forced to give birth to an alien!
(Source: reflections-of-shadows)
Name is Kat. New England girl born and raised in a Hicktown. 22. Reading, looming, sewing, baking. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are my homies. 100% Pro Choice. I have a talent for talking and I practice a lot. Feminist. Anglophile.
I like new people, so don't be shy!
If you need someone to talk to off tumblr/anonymously my email is meowrandom@hotmail.com
god i’m more bloated than a grad plus loan interest rate rn
I need feminism because…
Everyone has the right to be in touch with their emotions
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