February 2012
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"Colored people are like human weeds and are to be...
eltigrechico:
-Planned Parenthood founder and birth control activist, Margaret Sanger.
Oh, wait. Here we go, it’s false!
[Allegation] As early as 1914 Margaret Sanger was promoting abortion, not for white middle-class women, but against ‘inferior races’ — black people, poor people, Slavs, Latins, and Hebrews were ‘human weeds.’
This allegation about...
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evidencebook asked: I saw that Q&A by kandacelee a few minutes ago and I couldn't believe that. She's said some seriously ignorant, insensitive things before, but that was basically just saying, "F**k all the thousands of women that die from illegal abortions because BABIES."
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mattt-good asked: you know its proven that the...
kandacelee:
27,000,000 unborn women have died since abortion became legal.
As cis-centric as the definition is, woman means an ADULT female. There are no “unborn women.” Sorry.
But 47,000 ACTUAL pregnant people (most of whom were women) die annually from illegal abortion. That’s down from 70,000. And abortion rates don’t go down when the procedure is banned, all that...
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Anonymous asked: "Face it, pro-choicers don’t want...
kandacelee:
Why did abortion numbers drop to nearly 1/2 of the regular abortions once the sonogram was introduced in the clinics?
I’ve never held a woman down and pulled open her eyes and forced her to look at the ultrasound images. You are against good medicine, accurate medicine, informed medicine… WAKE UP! [HA!]
Sure you know what the unborn baby [sic] looks like, but no woman knows what...
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Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort... →
somepolitics:
In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband.
“A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be mentally prepared to conceive, continue the same and give birth to a child. The unwanted pregnancy would naturally...
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Santorum Cites Racist Author To Defend His Views... →
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Murray co-authored The Bell Curve, which argues that black people score lower on IQ tests because they are genetically inferior to whites. To reach this conclusion, Murray relied on studies backed by the Pioneer Fund, whose original mission was to pursue “race betterment” for people “deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen...
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The fastest growing Pro-Life campaign in the... →
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
So, how exactly were 6 fetus’* saved? Did they physically prevent those 6 pregnant people wanting an abortion from walking into the clinic?
Every time I see this nonsense I get physically ill. You “saved” 6 babies [sic]? Really? So there were 6 pregnant people who made well-thought out decisions that were right for them, and on their way into the clinic...
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5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
harmreduction:
Scott Morgan, Associate Director, FlexYourRights.org
Whether or not you ever break the law, you should be prepared to protect yourself and your property just in case police become suspicious of you. Let’s take a look at one of the most commonly misunderstood legal situations a citizen can encounter: a police officer asking to search your belongings. Most people automatically give...
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An update from the WMF
stfuconservatives:
Remember when we all pitched in to help JM, a 21-year-old cancer survivor, pay for her abortion? I got this email from the WMF today:
Dear Jessica,Thank you for your donation of $25.00 in support of JM, the woman with multiple health issues who needed to have her procedure at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. We deeply appreciate your generosity.
Because of...
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BREAKING: Virginia Personhood Bill Officially Dead →
propaganda-for-life:
fuckyeahfeminists:
[Image: a photo of a pro-life rally, with many people holding up a long banner with a picture of a fetus and the text “PERSONHOOD NOW!” However, the “w” in “now” has been crossed out digitally, and text has been added at the bottom, “Better luck next time.” End description.]
Except NOT better luck next time! No no no!
Now we just need to defeat the...
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BREAKING NEWS: Texas lets 130,000 people (most of... →
stfusexists:
racetothestoneage:
stfusexists:
Texas has decided to violate federal policies concerning the Women’s Health Program of Medicaid, and has lost $40 million of federal funding towards reproductive health care in the process. Way to go Texas! Now you’ve produced Rick Perry, W, and THIS abomination of legislation.
Click through to see what this means for reproductive rights in...
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If you are on Twitter, let's make some noise to...
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
I love Tumblr but I just don’t know how to use it mobilize.
But I know Twitter.
And so I’m starting there.
If you are on Twitter and you’d like to see more national media coverage about what is going on in Texas, let’s let the right people know:
@upwithchris (hashtag #uppers)
@mhpshow (hashtag #nerdland)
@maddow
@thereval
@edshow
@lawrence
@TheDailyShow
...
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nachtflix asked: Considering how dire the economy...
rabbleprochoice:
I’ve been saying this for years.
All of these pro-life bills are doing is wasting money, stripping NECESSARY rights away from people who have already been granted them by the constitution, and wasting time. That’s the whole point. The GOP is purposefully trying to waste time. They know that if they tie up the majority of the legislation up with bills that have no chance in hell...
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“When the woman answered the door, she looked at my daughter and said, ‘We don’t...”
– Girl Scout troop leader Kim Douglas • Discussing a recent situation her 10-year-old daughter faced when going door-to-door to sell cookies. Douglas’ daughter, by the way, didn’t know what abortion was. “It left my daughter very shocked, confused,” Douglas said. “She said, ‘Mommy, something creepy...
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Also, the crowd BOOed birth control.
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
So, what are we at now?
BOOs for gay soldiers and birth control.
YAYs for the state killing people.
Thanks, GOP debates. I hate you so much.
Don’t forget they also cheered at the thought of letting someone die because they didn’t have health insurance!
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Virginia's Antichoice Legislation, or Who Gets...
Today seems really bittersweet to me. On the one hand, I’m thrilled that Virginia has decided to back down on their invasive transvaginal ultrasound requirement before a pregnant person is allowed an abortion. But on the other hand, I think it’s a clear illustration of one of the core, fundamental problems with the mainstream prochoice movement and capital *F*eminists.
Virginia is...
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Birth Control Hearing, etc
I haven’t been very good about posting updates on the birth control coverage debacle lately and I don’t want to clog up people’s dashes with relatively old-ish news, so I’m just going to make one large post of the situation thus far. Everything is from ThinkProgress, newest information first. As always, this will effect more people than just cis women.
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Indiana Lawmaker Accuses Girl Scouts Of Pushing... →
A Republican lawmaker in Indiana was the only state House member to “refuse to sign a resolution honoring the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts that lawmakers approved last week,” claiming that the “radicalized organization” supports abortions and the homosexual agenda. In a letter obtained by The Journal-Gazette of Fort Wayne on Monday, Rep. Bob Morris (R) informed colleagues that “he did some...
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The Nation’s Most Radical Abortion Bill? Iowa GOP... →
In the escalating war on women’s rights in statehouse across the country, Iowa state Rep. Kim Pearson (R) may have just dropped the biggest bomb yet. Pearson, a freshman Tea Party lawmaker so extreme that she’s already drawn scorn from fellow Republicans and decided not to run for re-election, introduced a bill yesterday morning that would completely outlaw all abortions.
Among other things, the...
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[TW rape] Virginia's Antichoice Legislation
I haven’t been very good about posting updates on current legislation lately and I don’t want to clog up people’s dashes with relatively old-ish news, so I’m just going to make one large post of the situation thus far. Everything is from ThinkProgress, newest information first. As always, this legislation will effect more people than just cis women.
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Take Root Conference: Red State Perspectives on...
ok4rj:
OK4RJ is a proud partner in the Take Root Conference: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice, coming to Norman, Oklahoma on February 24-25 2012, hosted by the University of Oklahoma Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the WGS Center for Social Justice, co-sponsored with the Student Organizer’s Collective, the Abortion Access Project, National Advocates for Pregnant...
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there are so many different reasons
plannedparenthoodsavedme:
When I was 24 I got a urinary tract infection for the first time. I proceeded to get one every two or three months for the next year. Each time it set in faster, and was more painful. If you have had one, you know what I’m talking about! I had no health insurance at this point—the package offered at my job cost so much that I had to choose between insurance and a...
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Rose's Blog: autumn-and-eve: When a screenplay is... →
scarlip:
lucypaw:
widdershinsgirl:
autumn-and-eve:
When a screenplay is named “The Vagina Monologues”, please don’t expect me to piss myself over how inclusive you are because you added one, optional narrative about a trans woman. I have never been more sincere in my life when I say, I do not give a fuck, I hate the shit out of The Vagina Monologues. no1curr about your transmisogynistic...
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Anonymous asked: kip yer ligs clus' n ye wunt git prignint.
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“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– -Banksy, Make Art, Not Ads (via practicalunbreakablehearts)
God this makes me want to incite a riot rather than sit here trying to finish a paper and procrastinating on tumblr.
(via ftmfeminist)
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“If I’m left without contraception, how can I plan my pregnancies? If I can’t...”
– The (Not) New War on Birth Control - we’re talking about it today. (via myplannedparenthood)
THIS. I keep saying it and I don’t plan on stopping: if you can’t choose when (or if!) you’re going to be pregnant or be a parent you can never truly have control over your life. If...
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Here Is the "Dildonic" Device [People] Seeking An... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
[TW] The bottom image is just…wow.
Also, let’s all remember that while we are outraged that this MAY come to pass in Virginia, people in Texas TODAY who need/want abortions are being subjected to this EXACT “procedure.” TODAY. Right now.
[UPDATE: as somuchdependsupon wrote when they reblogged this, “I highly suggest not reading the comments. Douchebags.”...
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To Women about Abortion
journey2sainthood:
I think the danger lies in telling women to destroy something as beautiful as a new life. Even if you are frightened of babies and think they are weird, you do not deny that they are a new life and that life is beautiful. Freshly fallen snow, dew on the grass in the morning, kittens, puppies, your first taste of ice cream in the summer: all new things we find beautiful,...
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Calculator: How Expensive is Birth Control? →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Fun calculator at link!
To hear some conservative politicians tell it, you’d think birth control pills fall from the sky and IUDs grow on trees. During the recent controversy over President Barack Obama’s rule requiring insurance companies to offer birth control free of charge, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum claimed birth control “costs just a few...
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“In order to understand why transphobia and cissexism persist and are continually...”
– Ida Hammer, in an interview with Bitch Magazine (via mikroblogolas)
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17 European Countries Force Transgender... →
cassket:
People rightly flipped out across the internet last month over news that the Swedish parliament would not be repealing a barbaric law that forces sterilization on trans people seeking to change their gender on legal documents. While it’s despicable that Swedish politicians are opposing the law change, much of the outrage, no doubt, occurred because people previously didn’t realize that...
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Reproductive Parts →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
This is masterful, powerful writing. If you read one single thing today or even in the next week, it should be this post. I’ve already read it all the way through twice. I can feel the words crawling across my skin, making it tingle.
It feels wrong to even excerpt it because the entire thing is a force. You need to read the entire thing. But here’s a small...
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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
RICK SANTORUM WANTS TO PROTECT YOU! FROM THE EVILS OF PRENATAL TESTING
This entire piece is a Must Read.
I am so bloody tired of being used as a pawn by both the left and the right in reproductive rights rhetoric, I could scream. And in fact, I often do. The right tells us that they oppose bodily autonomy and choice because it would lead to abortion of “precious...
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FINANCIAL EMERGANCY!
inflateablefilth:
The husband and I had an argument. He demanded a medical certificate to prove I was crazy and autistic. My mother is refusing to let me move in. I have nowhere to go but my grandmother in holland who has already said I can go there. I have no money. My benefits are frozen because I admitted I was married.
If anyone can wire me money I can get it from a western union in my...
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Anonymous asked: I haven't been reading many of the latest posts as their over my head and I don't understand the context or what the issues are, would you be able to do a simplified explanation as a sort of intro to the rest of those posts?
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Fantastic anthology of articles pertaining to...
reinventionoftheprintingpress:
I considered posting sections of this book, but the entire thing is so informative and groundbreaking (in the sense that most legal scholars don’t actually evaluate the effects of cultural bias or systemic oppression in cases of injury, or torts).
The chapter it directly links to, Regulating Middlesex, gives an insightful and relatively easy to digest introduction...