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Posts tagged reproductive rights.
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
(via glitter-femin1sts)
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.
![keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
“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.]
re: no women on the panel about birth control,
Today’s fiasco of a hearing arises the eternal question, again: if Republicans have such a solid argument, why are they so eager to silence?
State Rape in Virginia (from digby) →
No Virginia, it’s not really about the fetus. It’s all about the probe. Democrats had sought to allow doctors to use other imaging methods but Republicans insisted that doctors put an instrument inside the woman’s vagina. Why? Well, since there’s no medical reason for it, the only possible explanation is that they want to “send a message.” You know. About who’s boss.
[NB: more than just cis women seek out abortion care and so will be affected by this shitastic law in VA.]
Roses are red, violets are blue. Corporations are people. And a fetus is too. #GOPValetines
Happy Valentine’s Day, repro rights advocates!
The White House Needs to Hear from us NOW! →
From Shakesville:
Shaker Ashley in N.C. emails (which I am quoting with her permission): “I just wanted you to know that I called the White House today regarding tho odious Catholic Bishops (after getting busy signals all morning, I finally made it through this afternoon), and the woman who answered the phone was so happy to hear from me. She said I was one of the only people calling in support of reproductive freedom.”
To the phones, Shakers!
White House comment line: (202) 456-1111
Anti-choicers are loud. WE ARE LOUDER! Call the white house NOW! GO GO GO GO GO GO!
The State of My Union is the State of My Uterus →
In Kansas, my uterus signed up for a sex education class but the only subject taught was abstinence. In West Virginia, my uterus got tired of abstinence and got a prescription for birth control, but my health insurance company wouldn’t pay for it. As a result, by Texas my uterus was pregnant and sought pre-natal care, but there wasn’t any because state legislators decimated Planned Parenthood’s funds.
-Aphra Behn
(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
Obama Administration Approves Rule That Guarantees Near-Universal Contraceptive Coverage →
Yay for all who need/want access to birth control in the US.
Most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, along with other preventive services, with no cost-sharing such as co-pays or deductibles. This means that after years of trying to get birth control covered to the same extent that health plans cover Viagra, our country will finally have nearly universal coverage of contraception.
Because AMAZING GIF!!!
(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
You are a womyn.
[TW for rape, rape culture, misogynist slurs, fat-shaming, eating disorders, abortion]
(As perceived by society.)
Now, don’t have any body fat. Be sexy. But not too sexy. You don’t wanna be a slut. Don’t have sex “early” or you’re a slut. Don’t have sex how you want or you’re a slut. Don’t you even have sex often or you’re a slut. Child out of wedlock? Slut. Five different guys?! Major slut! Oh you did have sex? Don’t talk about it. Don’t talk about menstruation either, that’s fucking gross. Hey baby, come here. Oh, you don’t talk to men on the street? Bitch. I didn’t want you anyway. Why couldn’t you just take the fucking compliment? Oh, you got raped? Well what were you doing out at that hour? Why were you alone?! Well, duh! You were wearing a skirt! You were drunk? Oh, honey, that’s not rape. God damnit you’re fat! LOSE WEIGHT. Here are some diet pills, some liposuction, some exercise tips… What’s that you say? You have an eating disorder? You must be stupid. You shouldn’t have paid so much attention to those get skinny ads. Fuck bitches, get money! (But not you, honey, I love you.) What’s that you say? You have an opinion? Bitch. What’s with all the anger? Are you PMS-ing? How do you expect to get a boy if you’re so strange/angry/independent? Don’t you know you exist as a sexual machine for men? Learn how to please that man, girl! Your chest is inappropriate, please, please wear a bra. Breast feed in public? Don’t you know breasts are solely a sex item?! How dare you?! You have children? Aren’t you like, 16?! You’re a statistic and deserve no credibility as a humyn. Now allow us to tell you what to do with your uterus! Abortions are mean, scary, and wrong! What do you mean its your body? There’s a persyn in there! Don’t you think we legislative mens know more about your uterus than you?! We politic for a living! Now take this 75 cents to our dollar and be happy!
(via commie-femme)
