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The Pro-Life Movement: Dangerous, Selfish, Lazy:

When a living, air-breathing human being actually comes into the world, being “pro-life” becomes infinitely harder. This requires you to actually care about people. The sort of care that takes a critical mind, patience, and self awareness. The sort of care that requires figuring out why things are the way they are so that you can work toward actually fixing them. The sort of care that takes compassion and an unending dedication to a better for life for all humans.

The sort of care that marching around, waving huge dead baby posters, and calling women murderers is completely and utterly devoid of.

— Laci Green.

To add on:

A sort of care that comparing abortion to rape and the Holocaust/any genocide or the extreme focus on sex-selective abortions or telling people to deal with the punishment of a pregnancy for having sex or calling them sluts is completely absent.

Anti-choicers don’t actually care about people. (via stfuprolife)

2012 Slutstravaganza Giveaway

annafromcraigslist:

Hey there. I’m pretty sure most people who follow my blog are huge sluts like me. Having your legs open all the time can be expensive, though.

Luckily for you, I go to events (or have people bring me stuff back from events) in the LGBTQ community, and there are free prophylactics everywhere. I get mine from the clinic I work from, but most of these are from things like PRIDE, SundayOUT, Outfest, and the Philly Trans Health conference. I decided to do a giveaway with my swag. Don’t worry! I checked everything, and they aren’t set to expire within this year. They’re also less blurry in real life!

Here’s the list of things I’m definitely including:

Plan B 1 Step pill

Assorted flavored and unflavored lubes; water-based or silicone

2 Proper Attire “Basic” condoms

2 Durex “Natural Feeling” condoms

2 Lifestyles “Pleasure Shaped” condoms

Assorted dental dams (latex and non-latex)

2 Crown “Lightly Lubricated” condoms

3 FC2 Female condoms

2 Trojan “Magnum” condoms

1 Durex “XXL” condom

2 Lifestyles “Snugger fit” condoms

2 One “Pride Mix” condoms

2 Lifestyles “Extra Strength” condoms

2 Trustex mint flavored condoms

2 Joe Lube condoms

2 Proper Attire “Color” condoms in yellow and blue

2 Trojan ENZ condoms

2 Rough Rider “Studded” condoms

2 Philly Freedom condoms

I may include a couple of latex-free condoms. Not sure. There will definitely be literature about safe sex and such added to the package.

Rules:

You must be 17 or older (because of the Plan B) and live in the contiguous United States.

You don’t have to be following me to have entries, but if you are following me and reblog, I’ll enter you in an extra time.

Each reblog gives you one entry. You may reblog as much as you like.

Liking does nothing.

If you want to promote this contest go a head and reblog, but if you don’t want your name entered, let me know!

Keep your ask box open! The contest ends Saturday, June 23. I’ll be using a random number generator. There are a bunch out there, so I’ll worry about which one later.

Get it, followers.

Love,

Rabble

“ I don’t care how much sex anyone has, how often they do it, or who they do it with. I’m much more interested in the consent, pleasure, and well-being of the participants and the people affected by it. I respect women who are asexual, celibate, monogamous, multi-partnered, or have had more partners than they can recall. I respect women who only have sex after a commitment to monogamy and those who have sex with someone within minutes of meeting them. I respect women who have transactional sex, women who have sex for love, or for any other reason. I know that all of these categories are permeable and that many women move from one to another. And I know that any of these decisions can be made from a place of personal power, choice, and authenticity, as well as from a place of coercion, shame, and disempowerment.

— Charlie Glickman (If You Don’t Respect Sluts, You Don’t Respect Women)

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 that mark, but that may be because the circumstances of those women’s lives are so remote to them.

Later abortions are no one’s ideal situation, since the price of an abortion goes up, along with the relative medical risks, with every week of gestation. It also becomes harder to find a provider. But as a new quantitative study from the Guttmacher Institute shows for the first time, most of these women aren’t living in ideal situations – they are likelier to be teens, to have less education and to have more disrupted lives.

The stereotype, says Susan Schewel, executive director of the Women’s Medical Fund in Philadelphia, is that women who have second-trimester abortions are “willfully irresponsible. But the women who call our help line are instead women who often are trying to be responsible, but their lives are so difficult. They have so many balls in the air, and more pressing financial needs – for example, housing. They just can’t manage everything.” And of course, many women discover fetal anomalies or experience serious health problems later in their pregnancies.

[read the rest at Salon]

“ [W]hen you teach adults and children sex-negative messages, sex becomes an undifferentiated mass of “wrong.” If all sex is wrong, then why try to tease out good from bad, pleasurable from painful? When students are taught not to think about sex, they aren’t going to spend any time determining what they do and don’t want, or what they might be interested in. Of course, they’re going to have sex eventually, but when it happens will they be able to communicate at all through the veil of guilt, shame, and self-loathing that sex negativity encourage?

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Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via sexisnottheenemy)

So, this is relevant to what I’ve been saying.

Love,

Rabble

bebinn:

Save $5 on Plan B One-Step™

You have 72 hours after birth control failure or unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. The sooner you take emergency contraception, the better it works. Plan B One-Step™ is available over the counter for consumers 17 and older.

Present this at any retail pharmacy (it can’t be used at government subsidized clinics, unfortunately) for up to two purchases of Plan B One-Step™. It’s valid for both prescription and non-prescription purchases.

Reblog so your followers can have it, too!