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February 2011

Anonymous asked: What're your sources for when a fetus actually feels pain? You said 30 weeks after conception, but you never cite it; or at least, I've never seen your source(s).

“I never imagined that in the year 2011, I would see so many efforts to separate...”

– Wisconsin physician, Dr. Doug Laube, in “Abortion Providers Need Your Support.” (via mandington)

January 2011

“House Speaker John Boehner defended his aptness to cry and habit of smoking...”

– John Boehner Defends Crying & Smoking Funny! Funny because abortion is a legal medical procedure, and yet John Boehner cannot stop bringing it up! For a vote! Because I’m sure John Boehner thinks that health insurance should cover him, even though he smokes! And I agree! It should! Smoking is...

thatfeministwithglasses asked: Hey :) I love your blog, everything you post is so bloody brilliant :)

Just wondering if you'd read over this and maybe promote it? It's an article I wrote about the charity Project Prevention and how really they arn't pro-choice as they are just manipulating desperate people into not having children.

Sorry to bother you :) Have a nice day ^^

Anonymous asked: For your campaign, when contacting representatives, it might be good to look at these arguments: http://www.nwlc.org/resource/oppose-dangerous-and-misleading-%E2%80%9Cno-taxpayer-funding-abortion-act%E2%80%9D

It may be that some representatives are more likely to react to the debilitating tax increases than how incredibly terrible the effects would be to pregnant women.

tobythewonderdog asked: ive seen a lot of people chiming in and telling some of the progressive blogs how to "more effectively get their message across."
i find this hilariously rude
if they have a "better" way of doing it, they should step up and f'ing do it.
what are you? hired help? their congressperson??? not a super experienced blog who knows what the f you're...

citrus-scented asked: Just wanted to say:

Rabble is a wonderful resource, you guys are great, and keep it up because your arguments are at least informing people, if not changing some minds. Keep being completely awesome. Makes me feel like not everyone out there is (an idiot) uninformed and biased.

Anonymous asked: I think you are absolutely brilliant.

And no, I don't mean that sarcastically or anything like that. I sincerely mean that.

Anonymous asked: I love how that Taurus person finished off that rant with a paragraph about how they didn't want you to reply because it would bore them and then sent you message to make sure you got it. Rabble, rabble, rabble, getting the silliest replies. Made me laugh. : )

How can People outside the US help fight the new...

Tumblr name?: Anonymous Ask Me Anything!: Regarding the ‘No Taxpayer Fundings For Abortion Act’, I know you’ve suggested contacting representatives, but is there anything that non-US citizens can do to help? Can I Post This On Tumblr?: Sure. If you have Twitter, consider participating in this campaign. Reblog this post, this post, and this post to make sure your American...

chromos asked: i absolutely love you for your post about abortions. i think i'm going to print out multiple copies of it and any time a crazed pro-life person i know starts rambling on about how abortions are unethical, i'll just tell them to read what you said, and check the facts if they really don't believe it. i know you're under a lot of fire for what you said, but you've given...

stevenjmcgarrett asked: Not a question, just thought I'd share: About a year ago there was a very large group of pro-lifers protesting the Planned Parenthood by my home; I think they were doing that 30-day protest thingy because I saw them there for a while. I got so fed up seeing them standing there with factually incorrect signs about abortion that I stopped by an Office Depot, bought a poster board and some...

yoctavias asked: There are no "personal opinions" when it comes to abortion.
Personal opinions are for, do you like the color blue or black more? Do you think he or she is cute? What's your favorite movie?

Those are PERSONAL OPINIONS.

Pro-Reproductive Rights and Anti-woman aren't PERSONAL OPINIONS.

When it comes to the topic of abortion, there...

REMINDER: one of the most important things you can...

Anonymous asked: Please stop capitalizing words. I really want you to win your arguments and prove everyone to be stupid but capitalizing instead of italicizing takes away the effect (affect?).
I love you, keep your chin up darling.
Also, don't publish this--just take it into account I guess.

Anonymous asked: I really do support this blog and your argument against hir, but insulting wolf-taurus-monkey's grammatical errors seemed a bit ableist to me.

wolf-taurus-monkey asked: I considered being anonymous just to avoid any backlash but decided against it. I reblogged a photo of something I am guessing you responded to when an anon sent you something in your ask. I thought honestly your argument was stupid. Which then caused me to rant and reply to your argument in a rather stupid and vulgar way to point out how idiotic it was to bother attacking someone's thoughts...

lambandserpent asked: I am amazed that anyone would try to use the concept of a "soul" in a practical argument. A soul is not a scientific concept and is irrelevant to any abortion "argument"
A lot of religious people rage against Peter Singer without actually reading any of his philosophical arguments. This is the crux of his thoughts on abortion: "Singer states that arguments for or...

Judith Jarvis Thomson: "A Defense of Abortion"... →

I thought I’d submit this, because I see a lot of pro-choice people engaging with anti-abortion people on the internet by debating whether or not a fetus is a person and whether or not a fetus has a right to life. If Judith Jarvis Thomson’s reasoning in this essay is correct, those debates have no bearing on whether or not abortions are ethically permissible, and it is not necessary to...

I will not be posting your submission. It is not because I can’t refute every single one of those points (I assure you I can and I have in the past) but because I REFUSE to grant the specific tumblr you copied and pasted from ANY air time on this tumblr, which I have explained in the past, here. Love, Rabble

Just throwing this out there:

A lot of anti-choicers are responding to the Q & A argument I posted earlier with variations of the arguments I outlined within the exact post or the adoption argument that I added as a separate post. LOLing for days! An aside: if anti-choicers have a problem with how I depicted the people in my hypothetical Q&A post (which were comical and written in complete jest based off of some of...

Anonymous asked: Well, what the fetus still has a soul right?

Anonymous asked: I'm reading a book called "Love in the Western World" and came across this tidbit about myths:

"The obscurity of the myth belongs in part to the vital import of what the myth symbolizes. It this were not obscure, or if there were no reason to conceal its origin and its bearing so that it might escape challenge, a myth would lack a raison d'etre. No myth...

ladyofleisuredc asked: If the fetus is a person, abortion is murder.

That's rich as I've never heard a baby charged of murder in the event the mother died giving birth to it.

crayondace-deactivated20111215- asked: You could call me pro-choice. I don't believe that women should get abortions just because they don't want to deal with all the things that go along with pregnancy. But I'm actually pro-life because I believe in life. If the fetus will kill the mom during birth or for some other reason, then they have to decide between the mom or the child. They will most likely choice the mom to...

babydolljustbleeds-deactivated2 asked: That plotmeister person claims to be a "pro-life feminist" on her blog.

My heart aches for her logic.

abxc94 asked: So, I had a recent discussion about abortion, and the link between getting an abortion and subsequent drug abuse was brought up. Does the claim that abortion does lead to drug abuse hold any weight?

Anonymous asked: If a woman is pregnant with an unwanted baby, why not just giving it up for adoption instead of killing it before it could even have a chance?

beholdthehurrikate-deactivated2 asked: I'm not sure everything in this article is correct, but I thought you might be interested. It's eye opening.
"Why abortion is biblical"
http://elroy.net/ehr/abortion.html

swansonsmustache asked: In response to people being okay with abortion in the case of rape, I would them to think about this scenario. A woman was previously sexually abused but did not become pregnant, however suffers from PTSD and depression, which results in low self esteem and poor decision making. This in turn could result in her having unprotected sex because she is so miserable and depressed, and does not care...

Let's all take a deep breath and enjoy a cat gif.

innuendoblues asked: Not to mention that the person must be unaware of the existence of ectopic pregnancy or eclampsia... and several other situations in which the fetus represents a great life risk.

“[…W]e do not grant rights based on potential. We grant based on actuality....”

– pixyled I have better followers than 99% of tumblr. Love, Rabble

sisterlilbunny asked: Regarding this: "Ohhh my god. WOW! How do you compare a fetus with a tumor. A tumor is life threatening, that’s way different. It’s not going to grow and become a human."

The huge point missed by this person was that a fetus can be life threatening. I for one would rather put up with a benign tumor than a fetus since at this point, it would probably mean my...

Oh, youthful ignorant self.

Fun story time with Rabble! When I was a senior in high school, I took an honors government class where we had to simulate the senate. The main goal was to propose a bill, get it introduced to the floor, and pass it. We weren’t actually expected to get our bills passed because the time we had was limited, it was just an exercise to see how the process worked. I was one of the few who got...

One more argument that should have been on that...

Just give your baby up for adoption if you don’t want to be a parent! Adoption is an alternative to parenting. Abortion is an alternative to not being pregnant. Some people cannot physically carry a pregnancy to term or to viability due to serious health concerns. Other women just don’t want to be pregnant. Going through a pregnancy is extremely difficult, anyone who says it...

Formspring Submission

Tumblr name?: elizabeth-erazo Ask Me Anything!: I was wondering your opinion on the term “preborn human”. Do you think this is a fair way to refer to the fetus? I’m working on a project and want to find “neutral” language. I could stick with fetus, but I hate to be repetitive when writing. Can I Post This On Tumblr?: yes Tumblr name?: elizabeth-erazo Ask Me...

13 Women are co-sponsors of this Bill

itszombietime: rabbleprochoice: Their names: Michele Bachmann (Minnesota): 202-225-2331 Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee): 202-225-2811 JoAnn Emerson (Missouri): 202-225-4404 Virginia Foxx (North Carolina): 202-225-2071 Kay Granger (Texas): 202-225-5071 Vicky Hartzler (Missouri): 202-225-2876 Lynn Jenkins (Kansas): 202-225-6601 Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Washington): 202-225-2006 Candice...

Formspring Submission: New Bill is Also Ableist

Tumblr name?: Don’t have one Ask Me Anything!: Regarding this archaic bill of anger, you covered the new restrictions on rape and incest, but I’m unfamiliar with the current “life of the woman” clause. This one seems to only cover her life if she has physical life threatening issues “‘(2) in the case where the pregnant female suffers from a physical disorder,...