December 2011
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“If we critically assess the assumptions behind both positions, it is clear that...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*Pregnant people, not just women. I think this quote is incredibly important because it addresses the fact that neither the antichoice position nor the mainstream prochoice position...
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“Building on this analysis, I would argue that while there is certainly a...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*Pregnant people, not just women. I removed citations due to clutter, but they’re in the original pdf at link.
In regards to the issues raised in the second paragraph: I’ve written...
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“As Solinger states:
“Choice” also became a symbol of middle-class women’s...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*Pregnant people, not just women. I removed citations due to clutter, but they’re in the original pdf at link.
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“The pro-choice camp claims a position that offers more choices for women making...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*Pregnant people, not just women. I removed citations due to clutter, but they’re in the original pdf at link.
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“In addition, I am suggesting that those committed to pro-choice positions will...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*Pregnant people, not just women. I removed citations due to clutter, but they’re in the original pdf at link.
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“Yet, despite his sustained critique of the failure of the prison system, Colson...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*Pregnant people, not just women.
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“Thus, even if we hold that a top social priority is to reduce the number of...”
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Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*People capable of getting pregnant, not just women.
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“The fetus is a life—but sometimes that life must be ended.
—Jeanette Bushnell,...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
*Pregnant people, not just women. I removed citations due to clutter, but they’re in the original pdf at link.
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“This paper argues that the pro-life versus pro-choice paradigm for understanding...”
– Excerpt from “Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice” by Andrea Smith.
I don’t agree with everything in this paper, and I don’t like how in some sections it felt like she was tokenizing poor women, but Andrea Smith has some fantastic things...
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Sanityscraps' Pledge.
untilantichoicebigotryends:
I will sacrifice abstinence.
Instead of what anti-choicers want from me, I will have as much sex as a damned well please. If nothing else, it will show them how wrong they are. Since anti-choicers wish abstinence on everyone, I will sacrifice abstinence until anti-choice bigotry ends.
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thismansaballoon's pledge
untilantichoicebigotryends:
I pledge to give up referring to foetuses as “babies” and trying to convince people that an embryo is “a human life” until anti-choice bigotry ends!
Yes, I am making the ultimate sacrifice of not using intentionally misleading or downright incorrect language to describe foetal development. I hope I have inspired you to make a similar choice in protecting women from...
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“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– Teju Cole on the “#firstworldproblems” meme, in a series of tweets compiled by Alexis Madrigal (via chaplinnn)
This is the sort of thing I was referring to the other day!
(via dailymurf)
Do you mean the convo you were having while on in-her-hips-theres-revolutions, about this and why...
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Catholic Adoption Agencies Whine Because Illinois...
liberal-antics:
atheistfeed:
When it comes to church/state separation, the #1 rule is (usually) pretty simple: If you’re getting taxpayer money, you can’t discriminate against a group for their race/gender/orientation/etc. for any reason. If you’re paying for everything on your own, go do what you want. That’s overly simplified, I know, but it’s the gist of the law.
In Illinois, Catholic...
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The GOP’s 10 Most Extreme Attacks On A Woman’s...
2011 marked a banner year in the Republican war on woman’s health. Close to 1,000 anti-abortion bills sped through state legislatures as the GOP-led House led a “comprehensive and radical assault” on a federal level. But in surveying their arsenal this year, 10 bills stood out as particularly perturbing and far-reaching efforts to stymie women’s access to abortion services, birth control, and...
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Rather than waste money trying to ban abortion,...
femmewave:
Adopt a child.
Fund contraception.
Support free healthcare.
Donate to charities that work to eradicate childhood diseases.
Donate to Amnesty International, so they can get innocent people off Death Row.
Donate your time to working with the hungry / homeless.
Knit blankets for *wanted* preemie babies.
Support people who miscarry. They might actually need it.
Fight domestic...
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Fear
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nextthursday:
The closer it gets to my abortion, the more I find I have only 1 fear. It’s not the pain, or the bleeding, or the drugs.
I’m terrified of not having the abortion.
My “what if”s are full of horror stories about my childcare pulling out at the last minute. Of an unexpected emergency needing my scraped together funds. The car breaking down and not being able to drive the...
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“Among activists within the reproductive rights community there is no consensus...”
– An excerpt from the article “It’s Not Just Abortion, Stupid.” Pardon the gratuitous ableism, and, as always, pregnant people not just women.
The whole quote is good, but I want to emphasize one part in particular:
Many abortion rights activists are increasingly dissatisfied with...
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“A lot of people who intellectually abhor everything the antiabortionists stand...”
– The late journalist Ellen Willis in 1973 in response to the emergence of a new anti-abortion movement following Roe v. Wade.
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10 Things I'd Say to the Anti-Choice Fanatics... →
[*pregnant people, not just women]
1) Most abortions take place early in pregnancy. Anti-abortion propaganda tends to focus on late term fetuses and even pictures of babies and small children, falsely implying that what’s evacuated during your typical abortion is basically the same as a baby. They shouldn’t be able to get away with this, but instead should acknowledge that nine out of ten...
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foulmouthedliberty:
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Welcome to Until Anti-Choice Bigotry Ends.
untilantichoicebigotryends:
Pledge what you are willing to give up until anti-choice bigotry ends.
Submit to us HERE a written piece, a photo, a voice recording, or a video of your pledge (Read the guidelines as to what you should submit and how to format it here).
Thank you.
Sincerely,
UNTIL ANTI-CHOICE BIGOTRY ENDS.
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"But first of all, if you’re fucking stupid enough...
dresdenlowe:
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“Ok, conservative men (I know I’m friends with some conservatives, as much as...”
– -My dear friend Anneka’s facebook status, shamelessly lifted (via rubyspurflower)
All people capable of getting pregnant, not just women. And at this point I think it’s all the candidates, not just Romney, but THIS.
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“One of the things that puzzles me about the anti-abortion lobby is what they...”
– Paul Sims, New Humanist (via paintingmars)
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A true letter of a fetus to its mother.
daskannnichtsein:
Here it is, an ACTUAL LETTER WRITTEN BY A FETUS.
So, after the fetus, unable to penetrate through its mothers skin, due to the fact that it can’t do anything, has no consciousness, and really has no basic abilities that are unique to anything but a rock, I decided to give the paper and pencil to the pregnant person.
They proceed to throw the pencil at my face and scream at...
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Tale Of An Abortion →
I am not squeamish about charging up to the check-out-counter and unabashedly slapping down a fist full of condoms. Never has it occurred to me to pad my purchase with candy bars and/ or toilet deodorizer in order to mask the fact that, yes, I soon will be having sex. In fact, I pride myself in allowing all sorts of stereotypically ‘embarrassing stuff’ – feminine hygiene wipes, ex-lax, wart...
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What It’s Really Like To Have An Abortion →
No amount of sex education prepares you for that trapped feeling. That constant cloud of concern over your head as you get further and further away from when your period should have come. You can deny it for a while—“Maybe it’s just late, I’ve always been irregular, it’ll come soon.” And then when it doesn’t, you panic.
You buy a pregnancy test. You buy two, just to be certain, because zany...
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Study: Majority Of Young Evangelicals Have... →
The religious right has a heavy-hand in conservative politics, particularly in an election year. Christian presidential candidates like Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) all tout their Christian credentials and signed the pro-life pledges to court the evangelical vote. But there is one traditional position that even young Christians are...
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[TW for abuse] Elected batterers: abortion... →
[For the most part, I liked this essay. I especially liked that the author cited the statistics used. This lays out the misogyny and inherent violence of antichoice politicians pretty clearly and the comparisons to abusers are valid imo. I wish it could have been less cis-centric, though, because I think it is entirely possible to be very clear that the antichoice movement is rooted in and fueled...
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“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
Get it through your heads, people. Potentiality=/=actuality, and we don’t hand out rights based on mere potential.
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Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex →
TOPEKA, KS—Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday the grand opening of its long-planned $8 billion Abortionplex, a sprawling abortion facility that will allow the organization to terminate unborn lives with an efficiency never before thought possible.
During a press conference, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards told reporters that the new state-of-the-art fetus-killing facility located...
In re: to the transabled stuff all over my dash...
doctorskeptismo:
pinkpenguin22:
prolongedeyecontact:
I’ve never seen so much uneducated drivel from otherwise intelligent people in my life. Seriously. Do you people even know what being transabled is? I’m guessing not because you seem to think it’s when privileged people choose to pretend to be disabled. The last time I checked BIID was a real fucking thing, in which your mind-body map...
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“Are you sure you’re not pregnant?”
– Response from three different people, including one grocery store checkout clerk, upon hearing that I am sick. Made me feel like I’m not allowed to throw up without people bringing my fertility into it. (via microaggressions)
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“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has...”
– Mother Teresa (me posting this doesn’t mean I agree with all of what Mother Teresa’s teachings, etc. it just means that I agree with the quote.)
I don’t see how having a right to my own body, a right to not be forced to remain pregnant for 9 months, risking serious health complications and a...
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