December 2011
Happy New Year's, Followers!
I hope 2012 is nicer to all of us than 2011 was.
Love,
Rabble
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Anonymous asked: umm, did you even understand that anti-abortion argument...honestly I don't even understand wtfuck that guy was talking about.
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Anonymous asked: I don't understand, what's the debate on breastfeeding?
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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on breastfeeding?
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Anonymous asked: Only anonymous because I am all aboot the Tumblr but don't actually have one. Yet. Have been going to PP for 7 years and they have never forced a pap smear on me. I was told by my PP Doctor that I can do the pap every 3 years since I am in my 20s. It helped that I have Gardasil and employ safe sex no matter my number of non-monogamous partners. But even if I had sex with 10 different people...
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Anonymous asked: I've never had a pap in order to get BC and I've been on three different types. Mind you I live in Canada and I don't know how much a difference that makes.
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atonickat asked: I also get my BC from Planned Parenthood and I haven't had a pap in the 2 years I've been going to them. I'm 28 and sexually active. I did have a medical abortion through PP and I honestly cannot remember if they did a pap at that time. I'm pretty sure they only did the standard pelvic to make sure the abortion was a success. I've been going to PP on and off for BC since I...
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thefuror1-deactivated20120224 asked: I just wanted to mention re: pap smears that I get my birth control from Planned Parenthood (and I do have sex and have been having sex for a while) and they just recommend that I get a pap smear whenever I'm in there... but I haven't actually gotten one yet. I'm on birth control for a variety of reasons, and I explained all of the reasons to them so that they could get me the best...
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handsomephillip asked: To the bc anon about the pap smears, I got my birth control without a pap smear. My gyno didn't find it necessary to give me a pap smear as I haven't had sex. Although she did check me for cysts, as it runs in the family a bit. The nurse at my university likes mentioning pap smears to me a lot but a "I'll come to you when I have had sex" placates her. You CAN get bc...
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stoned-love asked: If the previous Anon is seeking the pill for reasons other than birth control (which I only consider because they mentioned that virgins don't need pap smears, so perhaps this Anon is a virgin), they can also be prescribed the pill by a dermatologist, as I was, or a GP, without a pap smear.
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ohwowimrandom asked: I just wanted to say for anyone who listens to podcasts, the podcast "Stuff Mom Never Told You" did a politics free episode on abortion. Trigger Warning: they read a first hand account of an abortion procedure, it's pretty graphic (as surgery tends to be) and kind of hard to listen to that part, but it's incredibly informative and well done.
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Anonymous asked: Saying we shouldn't allow elective LTAs because someone might want to get one at 36 weeks just because is like saying we shouldn't allow people to be prescribed oxy because someone might abuse their prescription. Except it's even more stupid because a handful of people prescribed painkillers actually do abuse them and in countries with no abortion restrictions there is no evidence...
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Anonymous asked: I completely agree re: cis white men ruining contraceptive rights for the rest of is, but how would you respond to someone who says, "Well there are anti-choice women too"? Internalized misogyny, religious influence, a combination of factors? I very much respect your opinion, and pretty much always love everything you say, so I'm curious to see what your answer would be. Forgive me...
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Anonymous asked: Frankly, no I would not like to be unanonymous as your lack of a direct answer makes me believe that you are in favor of the way doctors go around attempting to force pap smears. I do not wish to feel personally judged for turning down pap smears that I know I do not need based upon the huge amount of research I have done (and doctors failed to tell me). i.e. virgins don't need them, people...
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Anonymous asked: Hey, just wanted to remind folks that Bebinn's got a great write-up of different abortion procedures- if you go to her Tumblr, it's listed under "Important Posts" under the title "Abortion Procedures".
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Anonymous asked: Do you have any links with information on how abortions are performed? I'm googling but I keep coming across pro-life groups that describe it as murder and I'm sure are giving wrong info but I'd love to know how the procedure works and inform myself. Thank you!
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Anonymous asked: Hey, Rabble. I'm 18 and having a pregnancy scare, and fuck is it scary. What happens if I have to go to a Planned Parenthood? Is it possible for me to pay in installments? Because my only money is from my parents and I can't get a job.
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Anonymous asked: I know this isn't exactly on the topic of abortion, but damned if it makes me angry that so many doctors (even in PP) decide that I am not allowed to have birth control unless they get to perform a pap smear on me. I wish this coercion would stop already. It's so stressful to keep going to doctors and continually being turned down, especially before I had health insurance. I am appalled...
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inflateablefilth asked: We don't have labour laws because the higher-ups decided they were good for us, we have labour laws because the people who are affected by such things fought tooth and nail for them. My dad didn't have a safe working environment at the dockyard because people who'd never worked in a dangerous environment wanted him to be safe, he had a safe working environment because of years of...
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Anonymous asked: We have labour laws, because without them, some douchebag bosses might treat their workers like shit (hell, they do in third world countries). The argument does work. We have the current abortion laws (in your country, and in mine) because the people who write the laws, and who get them into law obviously think there's a problem with elective LTA. Oh, I wonder why?
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Anonymous asked: Well actually, there's a difference between REMOVING the laws, and CHANGING the law TO something which would ENFORCE allowing abortion on demand. Canada probably wouldn't have the hypothetical, because the hospital wouldn't be REQUIRED, by law, to perform the elective LTA, and as such, another barrier exists.
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Anonymous asked: Take the violinist argument, or any of those other stupid metaphors, but it all boils down to this: When it is the choice of procedure used to separate, rather than the separation itself that is the cause of death, that is an avoidable action resulting in a death. Which at minimum is manslaughter, and at worst is outright murder.
Anonymous asked: So really it's like saying no one can ride trains because they might stumble across platform 9 and 3/4 and break the line that separates the wizarding world from the muggle world, or like no one can ride horses because one of them might start talking like Mr. Ed or I don't know, like no one can dance because they might spontaneously combust like the musical episode of Buffy.
Anonymous asked: Uh, I believe that there is no law regarding abortion in Canada currently, so it's indeed possible to remove all abortion laws.
Late Term Abortions, Continued
JAMA actually never agreed on when a late term abortion should be classified. Two articles determined 20 weeks, another at 27 weeks. Other, more conservative sources determined 16 weeks. The general consensus seems to be around 20 weeks but this is really irrelevant to the conversation except to point out that abortions that take place after 24 weeks aren’t the ONLY abortions that are...
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Anonymous asked: Sigh. Every time I want to start a discussion on LTA, people do this. "Oh, I support abortion at all times, and want no laws restricting it!" Uh, If you want to change things from what they are currently (in the US), you have to put some law in place to replace what's there. Citing current statistics about what abortions currently take place is NOT an answer, Rabble. WHAT do you...
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Anonymous asked: Then, Rabble, what do you think "Abortion, on demand, without apology" actually means? It means that you believe the law should allow elective LTA, allow the situation I described. What you're saying by ^ that is, 'Oh, I want abortion on demand, but I'm not going to explain what laws I'll put in instead'. That's... awesome. What I've said, is I support...
Does anyone remember that Ikea Lamp commercial?
Where the lamp is thrown out and you feel bad for it because there’s sad music and then it starts to rain and shit? And it’s just sitting out on the curb in the trash all *sad lamp* and then the text comes up.
And it says: “Why are you feeling sorry for a lamp? It’s just a lamp?”
Or something along those lines.
That’s what I think of when I see anti-choicers...
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Anonymous asked: multiples (or multiple systems) are two (or more) autonomous minds housed within one body. the people in these systems may or may not know about the other people in their system. sometimes one person may experience loss of memory or will lose control of their body due to another person switching with them. though they share one body, they don't share minds and are independent of each other.
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Anonymous asked: Firstly, is signing over parental rights is such a terrible thing compared to a dead fetus that was viable? Secondly, don't say that it wouldn't happen - that there wouldn't EVER have a PP in this situation. That's like an antichoicer ignoring rape exemption "because it doesn't happen that often." You don't know how many PP would want a LTA, because...
Abortion - not exactly a "woman's choice" →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
[TW for severe domestic violence]
Oh, FFS.
If you read that article and you think ABORTION is the problem, then you aren’t paying attention to anything beyond your tiny anti-choice view of the world.
“Abortion is the same as slavery and the holocaust.” “Abortion causes man to stab woman twenty times.” SHUT UP WITH THE FUCKING HYPERBOLE. You are belittling the...
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Anonymous asked: Re: LTA abortion. So, your...
pixyled:
rabbleprochoice:
Inducing and abortion DON’T have the same result for the pregnant person.
They both have a different outcome. One involves being a parent or signing over parental rights, the other doesn’t.
Love,
Rabble
uhm, they DO do inductions a lot. Whenever the fetus is viable, they will isntead dfo an induction, You don’t hear about these because they aren’t classfiied as...
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Anonymous asked: Re: LTA abortion. So, your argument /for/ abortion, is that the fetus is impinging on the rights of the PP. So, we want to remove the fetus from the PP. I am not convinced that there is sufficient cause for LTA, as opposed to induction, both of whihc have the same result for the PP. I am aware that my opinion is not popular to the majority of prochoicers.
Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men's... →
stfusexists:
I’ve received a lot of submissions regarding this study in the last few days, and I finally took the time to sit down and read this article on it. It’s pretty graphic, the test part of it anyway, so be warned if you head over to the link.
Basically, a recent study showed that both men and women were unable to reliably determine whether or not selected statements came from British...
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Anonymous asked: On the LTA thing - the law doesn't exactly do individual scenarios. People are complicated and laws can't manage that well in all scenarios. So, yes. We have the (hypothetical and admittedly rare) scenario where a woman wants an LTA, when she and the fetus are healthy. This could be because of a change in circumstances, or /because she did not know she was pregnant/. IT HAPPENS. What...
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I saw someone wearing a t-shirt today
It said that they survived the abortion Holocaust and that they are part of the pro-life generation. I would’ve thrown up, but I already did that from the anxiety of taking finals.
They were sitting directly in front of me during my hardest final and I would have said something if I wasn’t trying to, you know, not fail it.
In other news, after being almost entirely disconnected from...
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Anonymous asked: Different anon. I totally agree that late term abortions are still a mother's right whatever the reason, but I'm not sure if medical reasons are the only ones people would want a LTA. What if a poor person couldn't afford an abortion previously, but somehow found the means to late term? Or the mother lost her job/partner/home, and circumstances changed to where she would no...
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Anonymous asked: hey I wanted to ask what your views where on blogs like lawsofmodernman and maleminded here on tumblr? are they misogynistic or harmless?
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monde-reel asked: you say jk jk, but the sad part is that is actually not an outrageous request. ugh. :/
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Speaking of providing late-term abortions
If I graduate from med school and do decide to be an abortion provider, you all can make a chip-in page for me to help buy my first bullet proof vest so I don’t get shot to death by some Operation Rescue fringe member. A bullet proof helmet would be nice, too. (Do they even make those?) Bonus points if they match. I like the color green.
Love,
Rabble
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What are some good pro-choice organizations to...
prolongedeyecontact:
oligarchies:
I want to donate money for Hanukkah to some kind of organization that helps women pay for abortions, or an organization that advocates for comprehensive sex education/free birth control. Suggestions?
The Haven Coalition: a network of volunteers who provide a meal and a safe place to sleep for women who are forced to travel to New York City for...
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Anonymous asked: In general
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Anonymous asked: I'm curious as to what your view is on suicide.
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Anonymous asked: You want to go to med school, and possibly become a doctor who provides abortions. In the event that this happens, and "abortion on demand, no exceptions" becomes law, would you personally perform abortions past 30 weeks on women who have healthy fetuses, when, if that same fetus was born (a mere difference of procedure) instead of aborted, it would have close to 100% chance of survival?