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I love my children. When my first one was born, I just could not believe how much I loved her. I wanted to hold her all the time. Financially, my husband and I were not really in a good position to have a child. We were barely getting by, but we were ready to have a child, and our child was very much wanted.
Meanwhile, at the same time, another woman had her child at the same hospital. She was very young, with two small children, and when the baby cried in the bassinet, she made no attempt to care or nurture the child. The nurse came in to ask what was going on and the woman replied she didn’t really want a third child but she had it anyway because she and her husband didn’t believe in abortion.
I want every child born to be born to the joy and love I felt. I would rather see other means used to avoid an unintended pregnancy, but when avoiding pregnancy is no longer an option, abortion should be a choice, and a safe and legal choice.
I was born in 1950, 23 years before Roe v. Wade.
Marty
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Texas Judge OKs Ban on Planned Parenthood Funding, Leaving Thousands of Women To Find New Doctors
Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood’s family planning programs for poor women, a state judge ruled Monday, requiring thousands to find new state-approved doctors for their annual exams, cancer screenings and birth control.
Judge Gary Harger said that Texas may exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state funding if they advocate for abortion rights.
Texas has long banned the use of state funds for abortion, but had continued to reimburse Planned Parenthood clinics for providing basic health care to poor women through the state’s Women’s Health Program. The program provides preventive care to 110,000 poor women a year, and Planned Parenthood clinics were treating 48,000 of them.
Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit to stop the rule will still go forward, but the judge decided Monday that the ban may go into effect for now. In seeking a temporary restraining order, Planned Parenthood wanted its patients to be able to see their current doctors until a final decision was made.
“We are pleased the court rejected Planned Parenthood’s latest attempt to skirt state law,” attorney general spokeswoman Lauren Bean said. “The Texas Attorney General’s office will continue to defend the Texas Legislature’s decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women’s Health Program.”
Ken Lambrecht, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, said he brought the lawsuit on behalf of poor women who depend on its clinics.
“It is shocking that once again Texas officials are letting politics jeopardize health care access for women,” Lambrecht said. “Our doors remain open today and always to Texas women in need. We only wish Texas politicians shared this commitment to Texas women, their health, and their well-being.”
Planned Parenthood has brought three lawsuits over Texas’ so-called “affiliate rule,” claiming it violates the constitutional rights of doctors and patients while also contradicting existing state law.
Republican lawmakers who passed the affiliate rule last year have argued that Texas is an anti-abortion state, and therefore should cut off funds to groups that support abortion rights. Gov. Rick Perry, who vehemently opposes abortion, has pledged to do everything legally possible to shut down Planned Parenthood in Texas and welcomed the court’s ruling.
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Her name was Savita Halappanavar.
She was 31.
She was a dentist.
Her husband was Praveen Halappanavar, 34, an engineer at Boston Scientific.
She was 17 weeks pregnant in Galway, Ireland.
She presented with back pain at University Hospital Galway on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying.
She asked several times over a three-day period that her pregnancy be terminated.
This was refused because the foetal heartbeat was still present and the doctors told her, “this is a Catholic country”.
She spent a further 2½ days “in agony” until the foetal heartbeat stopped.
She died of septicaemia a few days later.
Mr Halappanavar took his wife’s body home on Thursday, November 1st, where she was cremated and laid to rest on November 3rd.
There are now two investigations are under way into her death.
[This info via this link. For more.]
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According to the World Health Organization, 26.1 million people seek unsafe abortions every year in the world because they do not have access to safe ones. 47,000 die from those unsafe abortions.
I have been unable to find a stat of how many people, like Savita Halappanavar, die because they are denied abortion as a medical option.
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Her name was Savita Halappanavar.
So many people will die in situations similar to hers and we will never know their names.
This is unacceptable. It is morally bankrupt. It is the definition of tragic.
Her name was Savita Halappanavar.
Is this what you call being pro-life?? Not only did this woman suffer emotionally because of her miscarriage, but she lost her life because of people who put the “rights” of a dying fetus in front of a living woman.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdgkqsH1JJ1qhb2nco1_400.jpg)
Her name was Savita Halappanavar.
She was 31.
She was a dentist.
Her husband was Praveen Halappanavar, 34, an engineer at Boston Scientific.
She was 17 weeks pregnant in Galway, Ireland.
She presented with back pain at University Hospital Galway on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying.
She asked several times over a three-day period that her pregnancy be terminated.
This was refused because the foetal heartbeat was still present and the doctors told her, “this is a Catholic country”.
She spent a further 2½ days “in agony” until the foetal heartbeat stopped.
She died of septicaemia a few days later.
Mr Halappanavar took his wife’s body home on Thursday, November 1st, where she was cremated and laid to rest on November 3rd.
There are now two investigations are under way into her death.
[This info via this link. For more.]
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According to the World Health Organization, 26.1 million people seek unsafe abortions every year in the world because they do not have access to safe ones. 47,000 die from those unsafe abortions.
I have been unable to find a stat of how many people, like Savita Halappanavar, die because they are denied abortion as a medical option.
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Her name was Savita Halappanavar.
So many people will die in situations similar to hers and we will never know their names.
This is unacceptable. It is morally bankrupt. It is the definition of tragic.
Her name was Savita Halappanavar.
Is this what you call being pro-life?? Not only did this woman suffer emotionally because of her miscarriage, but she lost her life because of people who put the “rights” of a dying fetus in front of a living woman.
It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women,
One Michigan state rep’s reaction to Rep. Lisa Brown’s (D) comment: “Finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no,’” while debating an abortion bill. Brown was blocked from speaking on the floor Thursday.
Read the story (with video) at TPM.
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my body parts are not offensive - whats offensive is that these grown ass men who cant even SAY the word vagina are debating my rights, my daughter’s rights, and everyone else who has a vagina’s rights.
Anti-abortion group says it has patient records. →
What is wrong with people. Are you seriously saying that stealing records of patients is a good thing? Who even does that?
Operation Rescue was given these records.
Let that all sink in, please.
OPERATION RESCUE, a pro-life group with known pro-life terrorists in it, was given the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. of patients who received abortions NOT EVEN A MONTH AGO, these patient records are from April 2012, it is MAY THIRD 2012.
The group is claiming that a man delivered these records to them and said he obtained these records legally.
Uh.
No.
Medical records, even for people who get abortions, are confidential and it is a serious crime to disclose them to ANYONE who does not have a reason to look at them. A crime was most certainly committed and I feel comfortable in predicting that several more will be committed in the form of harassing letters left at these patients’ homes by anonymous pro-life activists.
Anyone who saw those records should be fined, at the very least. And anyone involved in obtaining them should be put in jail.
This is actually quite telling. There has been legislation passed that requires abortions to be reported to the state. Guess how the individual who gave these records to Operation Rescue obtained them…from legislative offices.
And this isn’t the first time he’s stolen records and given them to outside parties (the first time he gave them to the governor’s office, attorney general’s office, and a medical licensing organization). He claims to have given them to Operation Rescue because the governor, attorney general, and medical licensing organization didn’t do anything with them so he brought the second batch of medical records he stole to Operation Rescue because:
“It’s my position that nothing happens in the state without the public scrutinizing it,” he said. “There are too many back-room deals without our knowledge, then things are swept out the door and ignored unless someone said something.”
Because a vigilante pro-life terrorist organization WILL do something about it.
And also, can we just take a moment to side eye the fact that a person’s MEDICAL HISTORY is, according to this guy, a matter of public scrutiny. Because people who receive abortions already don’t get shamed or harassed enough.
He claims that cash envelopes used to pay for services is proof that the clinic these records were stolen from is proof the clinic is committing tax fraud.
Okay.
Let’s walk through this:
Things that are legal:
- Getting an abortion
- Maintaining patient confidentiality
- Paying for abortion services in cash
Things that are illegal:
- Breaking patient confidentiality and invading patient privacy
- Stealing
- Harassing people
- Sharing confidential medical records with outside parties
- Bombing clinics or murdering abortion doctors, which Operation Rescue has been connected to
And people are questioning if a crime was committed…The majority of patients are low-income and considered at-risk. What a nightmare for the clinic staff and patients.Love,
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Fucking HIPPA, how does it work?
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Majority of Americans ‘Pro-Life,’ Poll Says - msnbc.com
….the poll findings demonstrate that the anti-abortion cause “is a vibrant, growing, youthful movement.”
Well.
That’s not fucking okay.
Tennessee House signs bill that will make it a criminal offence to naturally miscarry. →
Tennessee has long had a law that allowed prosecutors to charge someone forharming a “viable fetus”— defined as about the 32nd week after conception — when someone kills or assaults a pregnant woman. Last year, lawmakersexpandedthat definition to apply to any fetus.
Now, they’re looking to criminalize harm to embryos, the cells that are formed before a fetus develops eight weeks after conception. Proponents of the bill say it would clarify last year’s expanded fetal harm bill, but critics say it will be difficult to prosecute because some pregnancies end naturally at that stage. They argue this is simply afight over abortion:
[I]t will be difficult for prosecutors to prove that an embryo miscarried because of someone else’s action and not from natural causes, predicted Rep. Jeanne Richardson, D-Memphis. […] “I think your original bill may have been OK and we voted for that.I think extending that would be iffy.”
Opponents gradually linked the measure to the abortion debate.
Rep. Johnnie Turner, D-Memphis, said the measure would give “veiled support” to the anti-abortion movement by establishing that embryos can be crime victims. Once that principle had been accepted, embryos could berecognized as persons under other aspects of the law.
The Tennessee Senate is expected tovoteon this measure today.
Including Tennessee, 38 states have fetal homicide laws — 23 of which apply to the earliest stages of pregnancy. As a result of these laws, some women are being unfairly charged with harming their unborn children when they lose their babies during pregnancy.
*not just cis women
I hate it when anti-choicers tell me I hate kids.
You guys wanna know something?
I love kids. Why the hell else would I take up so many babysitting/nannying/tutoring jobs?
I’d love more than anything to be a parent one day (stiiiiill not popping my own out), and every time you all tell me I’m a wretched human being and tell me I shouldn’t be around kids, I want to scratch your eyeballs out.
So stop it forever please. Just because somebody is pro-choice does not instantly mean they hate babies and kids.
That is all.
Pro choice and I have a child. Flawless logic, antichoicers.
Mississippi is *thisclose* to shutting down only abortion clinic. HOLY FUCK. →
Bill (HB1390) is on Governor Phil Bryant’s desk.
His twitter, facebook, contact info.
Does anyone know of a petition around this? If so, please send me ASAP.
MORE GOOD NEWS TODAY!
the fetal pain, 20 week abortion ban that was without a doubt going to pass in Georgia is now dead. Ga is safe for one more year.
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“Houston, we have a PROBE-lem.”
[Please, for my sake, don’t re-blog this and say some shit about how backwards Texas is or how we need to secede from the Union. You know who that helps? Nobody. You know who that doesn’t help? The 130,000 people denied reproductive health by the defunding of the WHP. The people who, seeking an abortion today, will be forced to undergo mandatory ultrasounds, some of them transvaginal ones. All of the hundreds of thousands of people who have and who will lose access to all kinds reproductive health care in this state because of what the GOP is doing here.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1hvg8mYim1qhb2nco1_500.jpg)
“Houston, we have a PROBE-lem.”
[Please, for my sake, don’t re-blog this and say some shit about how backwards Texas is or how we need to secede from the Union. You know who that helps? Nobody. You know who that doesn’t help? The 130,000 people denied reproductive health by the defunding of the WHP. The people who, seeking an abortion today, will be forced to undergo mandatory ultrasounds, some of them transvaginal ones. All of the hundreds of thousands of people who have and who will lose access to all kinds reproductive health care in this state because of what the GOP is doing here.]
Because I’m sick of people desperately searching for reproductive healthcare services in AZ
My beautiful state is currently run by Jan Brewer, who is vehemently anti-choice. Long story short: The AZ house and senate are also anti-choice.
I’ve made a small list of clinics that won’t scare you into carrying a pregnancy to term and that can provide OBGYN care as a reference for myself and whoever else decides to read it.
I’ve had it saved onto my computer for a few months now, and I’ve just rediscovered it. I figured I’d share.
So yeah. Keep in mind, this only has a few resources.
Anonymous asked you:
5 years ago I had an abortion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to the abortion, the doctor administered a transvaginal ultrasound. She told me that it was to confirm that I was indeed pregnant and that to confirm that an abortion was necessary (eg the fetus had not naturally dislodged). She also said that so early into a pregnancy (7weeks) it would be impossible to do an ultrasound externally (via my abdomen). Because I believed it was medically necessary, I had no problem with this. Was it?
I’m not a doctor or a nurse or in any way qualified to advise on medical decisions.
Here is what I will say.
Plenty of doctors have testified in response to the VA bill that the procedure - IN MOST CASES - is not medically necessary. Perhaps, for whatever reason, your doctor felt that the best course of action before performing the procedure. That could have had to do with your own personal history, the type of abortion, or it is just something that that particular doctor asked of all their patients.
I’m not against the procedure. I’m against the fact that it will be demanded by the government even if it isn’t for medical reasons. I’m all for making decisions with your doctor about your health care.
I just bolded that paragraph because it’s the absolute only thing about this nonsense that need be stressed. This is about the state forcing doctors to perform unnecessary medical procedures, and removing from those doctors the ability to use their own critical knowledge and expertise. It turns the doctor/patient relationship from one in which the patient’s health and safety is of paramount importance at all times into one in which non-experts who know nothing about the patient’s case can demand invasive procedures be performed for no valid medical reason whatsoever.
That’s not health, and that’s not medicine. When the state decides to interfere with health and medicine — whether it’s to act punitively, as Virginia legislators responsible for the now-defeated bill smirkingly framed it, or to “help women make a more informed decision” — it is every bit the Big Government Intrusion into health care that the braying jackasses going on about Obamacare and socialized medicine described. The state forcing doctors against their will to perform unnecessary procedures on anyone who seeks a particular operation that is completely legal is an absolute violation of American ideals.
The idea that so many of the same people who crow about “liberty” and “freedom” are okay with this exposes them as the absolutely wretched hypocrites that they are. There is no other way to view this without the sort of mental gymnastics and rationalizing that any halfway honest human being commit seppuku before attempting.
And remember, y’all — this shit is the law of the land here in Texas. Good on Virginia, I guess, for shutting it down, but that isn’t and wasn’t the frontline of this battle.Dan Solomon, y’all.
I bolded that final sentence because it’s a perfect encapsulation of a lot of my feelings this week.
I was in the hospital when I was only a few weeks pregnant - definitely under 7 weeks. I had gone in for the flu but I tested positive on a blood test. They did a regular ultrasound and was able to see that I was pregnant.
If YOU are okay with the procedure, great, get it done if they suggest it and you feel it is necessary. The problem is that it should ONLY be a suggestion if the person wants it. Once you cross that line into making it mandatory then the problem starts. If there is no reason for it then it shouldn’t happen!
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