February 2012
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Karen Handel's (she the VP largely believed to be...
newsweek:
Emphasis, ours.
February 7, 2012
The Honorable Nancy Brinker
CEO, Susan G. Komen for the Cure VIA EMAIL
5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250
Dallas, Texas 75244
Dear Ambassador Brinker:
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been the recognized leader for more 30 years in the fight against breast cancer here in the US – and increasingly around the world.
As you know, I have always kept...
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....you guys.
That isn’t a real x-ray.
I can’t believe I just had to clarify that….
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How does The Pill work?
themodelofhealthproject:
Regardless of your views on The Pill, I’m going to explain how it works. Even if you don’t believe in contraception, I think it’s important to understand what it is, how it works and more importantly, why it fails. I’ve been on it myself for quite some time now and I realized that I was sort of taking it with blind faith in it’s magical powers to prevent pregnancy....
Seriously people.
Abortion was available well before Roe v. Wade. Abortions happened in biblical times and even before that. Remedies for terminating a pregnancy have been around for FOREVER. Midwives didn’t just help deliver babies, ya’ll.
And making abortion illegal will not change this fact nor will it stop people from continuing to terminate their pregnancies.
Abortion is not a modern day...
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bangfangs asked: Oh my God. That AbortionDocs website has this under it's definitions: "She will experience labor and delivery of her baby at home or wherever she happens to be. Abortion Pills are only approved for use during the first 7 weeks of pregnancy, but many abortionists dangerously prescribe them through nine weeks of pregnancy." The labor and delivery of a 7 week embryo? THE LABOR AND...
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On child support
For the anon asking about child support: Understand that child support is NOT a punishment. It is there because the law has determined that a child has the right to be provided for by BOTH parents. Often, the mother is the primary physical parent. She will be the one paying for most of the child’s expenses throughout their life. Fathers are often asked to pay some monthly amount that is...
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tobythewonderdog asked: re: stupid abortion language video - i'm almost 6 months pregnant right now, by choice, on purpose. i have wanted this pregnancy for years now. when i got pregnant i didnt all of a sudden think to myself "omg! its totes a babby y'all" because its not. barring any unfortunate events, it WILL BE a baby when i'm done. it was a clump of cells, it looked like a hot dog for a...
This just in:
The world is still awful.
Silver lining? At least he’s not still practicing medicine because giving someone a shot of estrogen is an outdated practice and there are easier ways to provide emergency contraception to “honest” rape victims.
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Here's the thing about mammograms...
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
I’m not sure why this is the marker of whether the services PP provides are worthy of Komen’s grant money. Even if they aren’t providing the actual mammograms, many many people don’t need mammograms to find lumps and those that do often need referrals. PP does this. Why isn’t that enough for an organization that supposedly cares about breast cancer prevention and...
kelsium:
Abortion is abortion. Deal with it. You know what’s murder? Shooting abortion doctors. Refusing medical care to women in a way that results in their deaths because you don’t agree with their choices. Actually that last one is more likely to be termed manslaughter if we’re being technical. Isn’t it funny how words have actual meanings?
Words are important.
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January 2012
47 posts
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Anonymous asked: RE: The baby shower video: I'm so totally going to request that kind of theme at my shower when/if I conceive, just to piss off the anti-choicers. : D
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chopdawg asked: There are people who claim to be "survivors" of saline abortion procedures that were performed at 6 or 7 months gestation... and now they are adults who use their stories to get support for the pro-life movement. Are their stories true? Have the facts been investigated at all? An example is Melissa Ohden.
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Anonymous asked: What is the general consensus in the pro-choice movement about whether or not the man should have to be forced to pay child support for a child they don't want? I agree that he has no right to dictate to a woman that she should keep it or be rid of it, but I am really torn about forcing the man to pay for years and years of child support, especially if the baby was initially an unwanted...
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Anonymous asked: Hello! Did you ever find out the situation with the woman who miscarried following police brutality at an Occupy demonstration? The last I heard, there was speculation that she had made up the story, but I haven't heard anything about it since then, and can't find any follow-ups.
(1) Published study...Fox 8. Abortion is safer... →
stfuhatemongers:
I just love comments sections.
Pro-Life Nation Launches with Interactive New... →
mohandasgandhi:
So, it’s okay for Christian extremists to make lists about where you can find abortion clinic physicians’ homes and all of their personal information while these doctors are being assassinated left and right and clinics, not even, Planned Parenthoods, are being firebombed but we need to hold congressional hearings on Muslims because 19 self-described Muslims (totally rejected...
http://mixtapes.tumblr.com/post/15342736988/the-gir... →
Just a quote from a fantastic feminist author, because I think it bears repeating that Ireland (a developed, fairly socially liberal country with no huge religious right wing) STILL does not provide abortions in any case, and simply ignores the fact that hundreds of Irish women are forced to travel to the UK every week to get a safe abortion.
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Anonymous asked: I am curious if you have seen the story of the 'mentally-ill' woman who was ordered by a judge in Massachusetts to have an abortion? I tried to include a link to msnbc about it, but it wouldn't let me. I'm sure you could do a search and find it. Please, what are your thoughts on it?
The only GOP Debate that would be worth watching...
You know it’d be good.
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There is ANOTHER GOP debate tonight?
Jesus Fucking Christ!
I feel like I’m living in some horrible version of Groundhog’s Day where everyone is repeatedly trying to out bigot the other or trying to strip the most people of rights.
No wonder January is such a depressing goddamn month. How could it not be when every other day there is a televised event on television specifically featuring the worst people in the country?
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[TW: sexual abuse of minor, abortion-related... →
desertmar:
lau-ra-sau-rus:
pro-choiceorfuckoff:
The girl had no legal access to abortion in Pennsylvania, where her parents must consent. This is the direct consequence of anti-choice zealots: taking away what dignity, respect, and alternatives left were left to a 13 year old who is being controlled, manipulated, and raped by someone more than twice her age. Way to go “pro-lifers”, what...
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Rabble: I support women, not abortion. →
ktcomplicated:
tehsunshine:
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divinityphotography:
“I support a women’s right to do exactly what I want her to do.”
“I support women, except for, you know, their rights. Because then they’d make the WRONG choices, so we obviously can’t trust them. But I support them!”
“I support…
I just read the “clarification” of this post on the original blog. Apparently, what he meant was...
I support women, not abortion.
tehsunshine:
squ33ble:
divinityphotography:
“I support a women’s right to do exactly what I want her to do.”
“I support women, except for, you know, their rights. Because then they’d make the WRONG choices, so we obviously can’t trust them. But I support them!”
“I support women in their natural role as incubators and sandwich-makers. But not as people.”
“I support women* as long...
Rape more common than smoking in the US
wellingtonyoungfeminists:
[TW discussion of rape]
“Today an article published in on Significance Magazine’s web site, a publication of the American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society, compared these rates to those of smoking – 18.3% of women over 18 reported being sexual assaulted in their lifetime while 17.4% of women reported smoking. Let consider this as we set health...
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Anonymous asked: do you believe in abortions at any time during the pregnancy? like past 6 months?
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ABORTION: Dear women, I vote we re-think our...
workingoninteresting:
This is not going to be a post about being pro-choice or anti-choice.
This is about something far more serious.
Hair.
I am in a constant state of angry confusion when it comes to the conversations about voting on abortion. Why is this an option? I don’t much care where you stand on the topic. That isn’t what this is about.
I am talking about the actual vote. The fact...
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The Abortion Basics Glossary →
This is a list of terms I wrote for The Feminist Hub that are generally mentioned in the abortion debate.
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The Abortion Basics: Choice →
This is something I wrote for The Feminist Hub about what the abortion debate is about. I might continue this series at Rabble Pro-choice later this year.
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Anonymous asked: "I really don't believe in abortion," Bieber says. "It's like killing a baby." How about in cases of rape? "Um. Well, I think that's really sad, but everything happens for a reason. I don't know how that would be a reason. I guess I haven't been in that position, so I wouldn't be able to judge that." - Oh, yes, he totally understands that...
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Anonymous asked: The only frightening part about his views is the fact that it may very well influence the views of his very young female fan-base. I would hope the young women would think only for themselves but the sad reality is that some will blindly agree with whatever views their little heartthrob has. Oh, and the fact that someone on Tumblr (frogman) once defended Beebz by saying he couldn't have...
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uneannee-sanslumiere asked: Just so you know, the Justin Beiber tweet is fake. I saw that circulating quite a while ago. From the 1 interview that he's been asked his stance on abortion (Rolling Stone) He said he is personally against it, but is not a female who has been in the situation so he really doesn't feel its his place to make judgements. I know of quite a few people who were personally against abortion,...
You know who is probably the least qualified...
Justin fucking Bieber.
Even if that tweet is fake (it is), I can not fully communicate just how little of a damn I could give about what a 17 year old white boy who has millions of dollars and is from fucking CANADA (where abortion is legal and unrestricted) has to say about what medical decisions I should or should not be allowed to make.
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It's totally hilarious that the Republican...
unknowablewoman:
Pretty much.
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Why women have second trimester abortions
fuckyeahfeminists:
Breaking stereotypes re: abortion and showing why it is important to protect this reproductive health right.
Despite those thumb-sucking fetuses you see waved around protests, nearly 90 percent of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy. It’s easy for even nominally pro-choice people to judge or shudder at the smaller number of abortions that happen beyond...
We have a Formspring.
And I sort of forgot we had an e-mail account for the past year and just checked it for the first time in forever…SO this is a Formspring I received in July.
My bad.
Tumblr name?: none Ask Me Anything!: So I’ve noticed that you hold the view that anyone who believes that abortion is justifiable under even some circumstances — the usual rape exception, if the fetus is...