An anti-choice graphic.
WHERE DID THEY GET MY LETTER TO SANTA?!
(Source: antichoicescreencaps, via pro-choiceproblems)
I can only imagine how difficult it would be for a teen in my part of rural NH to get to a local pharmacy to get emergency contraception (especially when you factor in conscience clauses), but having to get to the doctor’s office (and explain to their parents why they need to see the doctor like TODAY) would for many teens be impossible. Advance prescriptions means these teens could get them filled whenever, and keep some AT HOME. This could REALLY make a difference.
Right now there are so many people in this country barely scraping by, and not in a “Honey, we have to decide between Paris and Fiji this year” way. In a “Honey, if we want to keep the lights on this month we’re going to be on a bread and water only diet this week” way. The people who have been hurt most by this economy literally can’t afford to have a child. They can’t afford the healthcare, the time off of work, the food, the clothes, the supplies. More children born into poverty means more children on welfare, food stamps, and other assistance. Statistically children born into poverty are more likely to do drugs, enter the foster care system, be obese, and be incarcerated. People who can’t afford to have children (financially, emotionally, physically, whatever) should be given all the tools to prevent pregnancy, and the ability to terminate a pregnancy if they wish.
The economy effects the ability of people to support children. Children effect the economy. Stop pretending that family planning and the economy are mutually exclusive, they’re actually very intertwined.No no no no, haven’t you heard yet?
If for whatever reason you cannot afford to have a childKeep your fucking legs shut
No no no no, haven’t you heard yet?
You’re not the sex police!
Should couples who never want to have children abstain?
What about couples who carry the gene for diseases, like Tay Sachs, and choose to not have children to spare them that horror?
Or people who would die from pregnancy?
Fact: Sex doesn’t always result in pregnancy!
You don’t get to tell anyone else when and how to fuck. Leave my pussy alone. Worry about your own damn sex life.
Republican candidate for Hillsborough County Sheriff, Frank Szabo, said today that he would arrest any doctor performing elective abortions in his jurisdiction. Further, he wouldn’t be opposed to using deadly force:
“I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they’re under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed,” he said.
When pressed about what he would do if he learned that a doctor was about to perform an elective abortion, Szabo replied he would do what it took to prevent that from happening.
“Absolutely,” he said. “Well, I would hope that it wouldn’t come to that, as with any situation where someone is in danger, but again, specifically talking about elective abortions and late-term abortions, that is an act that needs to be stopped.”
Even if the abortion was legal in the state of New Hampshire, Szabo says that as sheriff, he would not need to answer to any higher authority or public official.
While Szabo has no law enforcement background, he claims his business experience qualifies him for the job.
Areyoumotherfuckingkiddingme? FUCK THIS DOUCHEBAG. NOT IN MY FUCKING STATE YOU WON’T. I will fucking protest his ass every damn day. I’ll get a vagina costume and sit outside his office all damn day I’m not even kidding.
Exhale is an amazing after-abortion talkline serving the United States. They serve people who’ve had abortions and their loved ones, and provide a safe, respectful, and supportive volunteer counselor to talk to. They are the “#1 post-abortion referral of health care providers nationwide, including Planned Parenthood.”
Exhale has submitted their commercial to Social Teeth, which will help them take it nationwide if they get enough votes. Voting ends today at midnight PST, so sign up and vote now!
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I love how people say that because of the economy, birth control/abortion shouldn’t factor into the election.
Right now there are so many people in this country barely scraping by, and not in a “Honey, we have to decide between Paris and Fiji this year” way. In a “Honey, if we want to keep the lights on this month we’re going to be on a bread and water only diet this week” way. The people who have been hurt most by this economy literally can’t afford to have a child. They can’t afford the healthcare, the time off of work, the food, the clothes, the supplies. More children born into poverty means more children on welfare, food stamps, and other assistance. Statistically children born into poverty are more likely to do drugs, enter the foster care system, be obese, and be incarcerated. People who can’t afford to have children (financially, emotionally, physically, whatever) should be given all the tools to prevent pregnancy, and the ability to terminate a pregnancy if they wish.
The economy effects the ability of people to support children. Children effect the economy. Stop pretending that family planning and the economy are mutually exclusive, they’re actually very intertwined.
Score sheet!
The Abortion Assistance Blog is picking up speed, with offers now from 37 states and 5 Canadian provinces! According to my updated spreadsheet, here are the tallies:
- California is in the lead with 6 offers of transportation to/from the clinic
- Texas is leading with 5 offers of somewhere to stay for people traveling overnight
- California and Montana are tied with 2 offers for child care
Go California!
Here are the areas that are still waiting for help:
United States
- Alaska
- Delaware
- Hawaii
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Vermont
- Wyoming
Canada
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland & Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- Nova Scotia
- Prince Edward Island
- Yukon
Of course, just because your area isn’t on the list doesn’t mean there aren’t people there who need your help. If you or someone you know can offer transportation, lodging, child care, or funding for someone’s abortion or travel costs, please contact the Abortion Assistance Blog through the Ask or Submit boxes, email, or Twitter.
Thanks to everyone who has participated so far!
BOOSTING
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Here’s an abortion compromise
Declare that abortions themselves are not illegal at any trimester, but receiving an abortion results in charges of:
- premeditated murder for the lead doctor
- accomplices to the crime for the mother and nurses
Exclusions:
- Pregnancies resulting from rape*
- Pregnancies which would result in the death of the mother
- Pregnancies resulting from spontaneous insemination (i.e. virgin mary)
*In order to receive exemption, a rape charge must be filed, and the woman must testify in a trial
Why?
- When a person kills a pregnant woman, regardless of trimester, it’s double homicide.
- Killing due to self-defense is protected in the court of law. In this case, the unplanned pregnancy is attacking a woman, without her consent. Therefore, she is given an option to choose. The exclusionary rule is present to limit fraudulent rape claims.
- The woman should not be denied the right to abort a child. Crimes are not punished before they are made.
Everyone wins. The woman gets out of her poor judgment and serves time-out via a prison sentence without losing her life, and she maintains her reproductive rights.
If you want to put a woman in prison for receiving an abortion, that’s not keeping it legal; that’s criminalizing it. You highly contradict your first statement. “The woman gets out of her poor judgement…” Way to shame women* for choosing to have sex, a natural drive. Birth control is not 100% nor always accessible.
If a pregnant person is murdered it IS NOT always considered double homicide! I know right? There’s no federal law. NONE. It goes by a state by state AND case by case basis. Usually the biggest factor is the stage of the pregnancy. I know! Facts are fun!
Oh and, how would immaculate conception be proven? I’m reallly dying to hear that.
So if you don’t want to be a mother — “real” or otherwise — abortion is totally cool, right?
Also, and this ALWAYS bugs me about the “CHECKMATE!” blogs: a checkmate is a chess move which means the other person can’t win. How is this a checkmate? It’s not a fact or some incontrovertible morality. It’s just YOUR FUCKING OPINION, which does not constitute a checkmate. There’s a joke to be made here about queens and pawns but I’m too tired to think of it right now.
(Source: checkmateprochoicers, via stfuconservatives)
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Unpopular opinion, but…
Saying that you’d have an abortion because you’re not financially stable is like going up to a person and saying, “Oh, you’re not financially stable, so let’s just shoot you.”
No it isn’t anything like that, at all. However that’s your opinion but no one is actually saying that you specifically have to have an abortion. Some people will choose to continue a pregnancy but that shouldn’t mean that we take away anyone else’s right not too. Murdering a human being and aborting a foetus are two completely different things.
Saying “you shouldn’t abort an unwanted pregnancy just because you’ll have no way to provide food/clothing/shelter/healthcare for it!” Is like saying “I’m a gigantic douche with a lot of privilege who has no idea what it’s like to not be able to feed my kid.”
(Source: nagron-shall-live-forever, via loleetalo)
The little one pictured may not look all that human yet, but it is developing rapidly to prepare for life outside the womb. His or her sex has already been determined. Based on the size of this picture, his or her neural tube, which will develop into the nervous system, is well on it’s way to forming. Already this baby has the foundation for thought, senses, feeling, and more! Amazing.
Yet it’s still unthinking and unfeeling until after 30 weeks.
Also, this is an elephant fetus.Even if you pretend this is a human fetus, regardless of whether or not it is sentient, no one is entitled to someone else’s body, and permission can be withheld, granted, or revoked at any moment; it’s at the autonomous individual’s discretion what happens to their own body.
this commentary
goes from bad to better to best
This was hilarious.
(bolded for emphasis)An ELEPHANT FETUS hahahahahahahahahaha
I’m dying. An ELEPHANT FETUS.
This still cracks me up.
If I found out I was pregnant with an elephant I would totally change my mind about how to handle the pregnancy. Abortion would be off of the table. Why? Fucking rich as hell for being the first human to give birth to an elephant. Plus, I’d have an elephant.
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Bro-choice - Jon Stewart
Al Madrigal reports on location from Oklahoma, where a proposed amendment to its “personhood” bill would effectively outlaw male masturbation.
I was disturbed by many of the comments. It seemed that people don’t understand satire and the double standard being played here.
(Source: stfuprolifers)
There is no abortion law in Canada. It is neither legal nor illegal, it is simply a medical procedure and covered by universal health care. Universally, abortions performed at hospitals are free. Whether abortions at free-standing clinics are covered varies by province/territory. Some provinces and territories with limited providers pay travel costs when women have to go to a different province for the procedure. There are no mandatory ultrasound laws and no 24 hour waiting periods.
Abortion became legal in Canada in 1969 as part of a massive reform to “get the government out of the bedrooms of the nation.” While abortion was decriminalized, it could only be performed in cases to preserve “life and health.” Women had to prostrate themselves in front of a committee of three doctors and plead their case. Many doctors told me they rubber stamped these requests. “To see these poor women pouring out stories of misery, it just broke my heart,” one told me. However, other providers could be less understanding.
In 1988, The Supreme Court of Canada deemed this pleading for abortion to be unconstitutional and the law was struck down. A bill was introduced in 1989 to once again ban abortions unless the life and/or health of the mother were in jeopardy. While the bill was passed by the House of Commons (elected Members of Parliament), it was defeated by the Senate who are all, interestingly enough, political appointees. No political party has introduced any abortion legislation since, and so there is no abortion law.
Now contrast the American experience with complicated laws, far greater cost (the average amount paid for a 1rst trimester abortion is $451, with 60% of women paying out-of-pocket for their procedure), indignities (mandatory ultrasound), and inconveniences such as 24 hour delays and uncompensated travel.
So how does lawless Canada stack up against regulated America?
In Canada, the teen birth and abortion rate is 27.0/1,000 women between the ages of 15-19 versus 61.2/1,000 in the United States.
The abortion rate among all women of reproductive age (15-44) in Canada is 14.1/1,000 versus 20/1,000 in the United States.
Put another way, the teen birth and abortion rate is more than 50% higher in the United States versus Canada and the abortion rate is about 25% higher in the Unites States.
Canadian women also have something else. They have access to health care and sex education is widely taught in the schools.
Laws, cost, and indignities don’t reduce abortion, knowledge and contraception do.
As I’ve said before, if you’re serious about reducing the need for abortion your priorities and focus should be on preventing unintended pregnancies with comprehensive sex education and affordable, accessible contraception (like, you know, the ACA mandate). Making burdensome, medically unnecessary, unscientific abortion restrictions does nothing to curb incidence; it just makes it more expensive and less accessible thereby disproportionately affecting low-income people and people of color. Most people getting abortions say they would have liked to get their abortion even earlier and it was abortion restrictions and cost that were standing in their way. Perhaps if antis actually took the time to understand why people need abortions they’d understand that the solution would be tackling the problem of unintended pregnancies. But valid, helpful solutions have never been their aim, it’s always been about punishment, sex shaming, and embryo worship, which is why they are utterly ineffective.
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