Guess 90% of the people I follow are pregnant then.
So now I can pretend Kaidan is the bby daddy? Is that how this works? :U
Lolsure. Can I move to Arizona and say I’m pregnant with the second coming of Christ for money please?
Oh, anti-choicers. :/
Oh, pro-choicers. Every time you reblog this I die a little inside :/
Gloria Steinem [x]
Her and everything she said.
So… we’re just not gonna talk about how Steinem is extremely racist, right? Or super cissexist? Or how she is at the forefront of a movement for upper & middle class white women to have that choice while simultaneously demonizing poor and non-white
womenpeople for wanting to have children AND supporting efforts that sterilize poor and non-whitewomenpeople thru dishonest means?Because, sure, that all sounds really good… but… there’s a lot being left out.
(via transreprojustice)
Keep your law off my body!
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA), echoing women fighting against transvaginal ultrasound legislation a sign waving behind him outside the Supreme Court Tuesday.
King also took the broccoli route, saying a decision to uphold the individual mandate means “[the government] can tell you you have to buy health food […] or that you can’t eat a nice, juicy, Grade A steak.”
(via pantslessprogressive)
+3 embarrassment to Iowa.
(via racetothestoneage)
JFC, I can’t even. Self-awareness, how does it work?
Not to mention the “broccoli argument” has been addressed. So has the “abortion pill” claim. Try harder.
(via racetothestoneage)
So the anagram of my blog name is Potent, Concealed Orgy. Sounds about right. I mean, all prochoicers are insatiable sluts just trying to find a way to trick conservatives into subsidizing their unholy sex lives. I know I am.
Have A Baby? There Goes Your Job.
Supreme Courts’s 5-4 decision yesterday to negate part of the Family Leave Act:
“I’ll be damned if the conservatives on the Supreme Court weren’t getting jealous of all the congressional and state-level battles in the war on women and decide that they needed to take up arms themselves….
First, conservatives want to make sure you get pregnant by limiting access to birth control, then force you to have the baby by limiting access to abortions, then if you get fired for taking time off to have the baby, you have no right to recourse for being fired. Great. All these things that have been litigated decades ago and established as basic rights have been inverted.” - Nicole Belle of Crooks & Liars
No birth control, no health screenings for mother or child, no job to come back to. That is the family values of the Republican Party.
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Don’t you just love being fertile under conservative control?
Anonymous asked: gianna-and-faith-prolifegirls[.]tumblr[.]com/post/19639666726 Please help. I am too angry to even begin to tear apart this awful position.
http://gianna-and-faith-prolifegirls.tumblr.com/post/19639666726
I’m sorry to hear that. This post is ridiculous and sadly, it’s a pretty common attitude. But it’s going to be okay, Anon. They are wrong and I think most people know it.
Oh, dear. I just read it.
ROCKET SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
In EVERY SITUATION (except for rape, which accounts for less than ONE PERCENT of all pregnancies), if you don’t want a baby, don’t have sex. If you aren’t ready for the results of sex (a baby), then just don’t do it. EVERYONE who is old enough to have sex knows that the very probable result of sex is a baby. Men and women who fully KNOW that they are not ready to have a baby sholudn’t be allowed to take the “easy” way out, which is abortion. If men and women think that they are men and women enough to have sex, they also must be men and women enough to deal with the possible result.
And all the pro-choice trolls would probably say to me how safe it is…that is all ROT. Since you can’t ask the child inside the mother, let’s guess what they would answer. How about…”DUH! NO!” I’ve been hit with the classic, “Abortion is so much safer than pregnancy!” Yeah…if that were true, why is the world’s population roughly 6 billion? And more people give birth every year than they do have abortions, so naturally, the fatality rate of childbirth would be higher than abortion. Just like they say, “Horseback riding is safer than driving,”…except more people drive than ride. And anyway, if pregnancy were to cause death…why are you having sex anyway?? If you fear for your life so much…GOSH.
That’s not how statistics work. At all. It is an objective fact that an individual is far more likely to experience morbidity and mortality from 10 months of pregnancy and then childbirth than they are from a single abortion, especially a first trimester abortion. That’s a fact. It has nothing to do with there being more births than abortions.
Currently, “Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.” [Jones RK and Kooistra, K., Abortion incidence and access to services in the United States, 2008,Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011, 43(1):41-50.]
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The risk of abortion complications is minimal: Fewer than 0.3% of abortion patients experience a complication that requires hospitalization. [Henshaw SK, Unintended pregnancy and abortion: a public health perspective, in: Paul M et al., eds., A Clinician’s Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion, New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1999, pp. 11–22.]
The risk of death associated with abortion increases with the length of pregnancy, from one death for every one million abortions at or before eight weeks to one per 29,000 at 16–20 weeks—and one per 11,000 at 21 or more weeks. [Bartlett LA et al., Risk factors for legal induced abortion-related mortality in the United States, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2004, 103(4):729–737.]
Perhaps you’d like even newer research. How about “The Comparative Safety of Legal Induced Abortion and Childbirth in the United States” by Elizabeth G. Raymond, MD, MPH and David A. Grimes, MD in the February 2012 edition of Obstetrics and Gynecology?
OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety of abortion compared with childbirth.
METHODS: We estimated mortality rates associated with live births and legal induced abortions in the United States in 1998–2005. We used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, birth certificates, and Guttmacher Institute surveys. In addition, we searched for population-based data comparing the morbidity of abortion and childbirth.
RESULTS: The pregnancy-associated mortality rate among women who delivered live neonates was 8.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. The mortality rate related to induced abortion was 0.6 deaths per 100,000 abortions. In the one recent comparative study of pregnancy morbidity in the United States, pregnancy-related complications were more common with childbirth than with abortion.
CONCLUSION: Legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth. The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion. Similarly, the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: II
See? Apples to apples abortion is markedly safer than childbirth.
Here’s some more info on pregnancy and maternal* mortality:
- Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the U.S
- Complications/mere “inconvenience”
- Statistics post
- The White Ribbon Alliance Global Maternal Mortality Fact Sheet
- Pregnancy Complications (CDC)
- Pregnancy Complications (Womenshealth.gov)
- Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008 (WHO, 2010)
- Research and Statistics on Maternal and Perinatal Health (WHO)
- Maternal Mortality Estimates (Interactive Map)
- Maternal Mortality Ratio (Interactive Map #2)
If you think that you are ready to have sex, you should be willing to sacrifice yourself or even your life for the sake of the baby that could very well be the result of your choice. It is possible! Exhibit A: Saint Gianna Beretta Molla. If you aren’t ready enough to value a child that much, don’t have sex!
WTF?
It’s happened again, guys. Another pro-life blog has posted and Elie Wiesel quote.
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”—
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor
We have dealt with this asshat-ery before at PCG. Elie Wiesel, who you have correctly identified as a Holocaust survivor, said this when asked specifically about abortion and the raging debate about reproductive health care:
What should be done is to give back the human proportion to the abortion issue, and when we see it as such we may be able to have much more understanding for the woman who chooses it. Women who choose abortion are consistently labeled killers, and I personally have been compared to Hitler and called a great murderer.
A woman who feels she cannot go on, and with pain and despair she decides that she has to give up her child, is this woman a killer? Really really. But look, you cannot let these words hurt you. You have to be strong not to pay any attention because those who do that call you a Hitler and relate it to the Holocaust prove that they do not know what the Holocaust was.
Did you see those bolded parts? The man who actually went through the Holocaust says that anyone who makes the comparison to abortion immediately reveals their ignorance. He also said that, because he is pro-choice, he has been “compared to Hitler and called a great murderer.” Take a second to think about the fact that pro-life people have actually compared Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, to Hitlerbecause of this misguided and ignorant comparison. What does it say about your stance that a Holocaust survivor and well renowned intellectual has both come out to strike down the comparison and been compared to the man who was responsible for the genocide of his people? Elie Wiesel is an amazing person. Do not misappropriate his words to fit your cause. Take this as an invitation to re-examine the pro-life crowd.
—Maria
Yeah, I’m thoroughly disgusted every single time this is done. And they refuse to accept how despicable these comparisons are. Usually it goes something like this:
[My sarcasm might be TRIGGERING]
Prochoice: Abortion is first and foremost about the right to privacy and bodily integrity. Without the right to make decisions about one’s life, body, and reproduction, one cannot say they are truly free.
Antichoice: NOPE. HITLER!!!! Abortionists are just like Joseph Mengele! Abortion clinics are like gas chambers! Pro-aborts are NAZIS!!! Seriously, you’re just like Hitler. He said the Jews weren’t people and now you’re saying that about zygotes!
Holocaust Survivor: Well actually, that’s a disgusting comparison that completely ignores the significant differences between my entire family (and the 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust) and non-sentient, non-autonomous embryos. You’re being racist and offensive and essentially proving you know nothing about the trauma inflicted on my people under Hitler. Please stop.
Antichoice: SHUT UP!!! You don’t know what you’re talking about! I’m helping you, can’t you see?! You’re just like Hitler, you know! This is exactly the kind of thing Hitler and the Nazis would have said! What do you know anyway? If you can’t see how Planned Parenthood is EXACTLY like Auschwitz than you obviously weren’t paying attention.
Me:
Ban of abortion after 6 weeks passes Mississippi House
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi House bill would effectively ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
The bill would require doctors to search for a fetal heartbeat before performing an abortion and, if a heartbeat is found, would make going ahead with the procedure illegal.
The bill passed the House on Wednesday and now goes to the Senate, where a similar bill died in committee.
House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, says the bill will ban 90 percent of the abortions in the state because most women seek abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detectable.
The bill allows exemptions if the woman’s life is at risk or no fetal heartbeat can be found. There are no exemptions for rape and incest victims.
The bill is among several supported by anti-abortion groups.
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This is an embryo at 6 weeks LMP (or about 28 days since fertilization):
Actual size 4-6 millimeters!
Up to 6 1/2 weeks calculated from the 1st day of the last menstruation cycle, no embryo can be visualized yet, therefore merely a gestational sac can be seen.
But, yeah, whatevs. This sounds like a great law to pass.
Are you fucking kidding me?
This is fucking outrageous.
GUYS. 6 WEEKS IS 41 DAYS. NOT 28. STOP IT.
I realize that this bill passing is terrible, but we have an image of informed intelligent human beings that we need to keep up with. Saying 6 weeks is about 28 days only confirms what ignorant people think of us.
Uh, no. You’re the one who doesn’t know what you’re talking about.
6 weeks is 42 days. But pregnancy is calculated by LMP (last menstrual period). That’s 2 weeks (or 14 days) before ovulation or fertilization can even happen. So an embryo at 6 weeks of pregnancy has only been growing for 28 days (42-14=28). Hence why I labeled my image of what the embryo would look like for this legislation “6 weeks LMP (or about 28 days since fertilization).”
Honestly, if you’re going to correct me [which I’m fine with when I’m wrong] at least know what you’re talking about.
There are lots of other issues right now that could be dealt with other than this one,” said Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, who is responsible for Republican messaging. “I suspect there’s a reason for bringing it up now.
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That’s Senator Thune’s feelings about the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The reason for bringing it up now is quite simply that the programs funded through VAWA need to have the money reauthorized. But that’s apparently not as important as some other top items in the Republican agenda like… uh… um… uh…
Senator Thune, good morning, now, STFU!
(via stfutoday)
(via stfutoday)
'We Have No Choice': One Woman's Ordeal with Texas' New Sonogram Law
TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of the termination of a wanted pregnancy
The doctor and nurse were professional and kind, and it was clear that they understood our sorrow. They too apologized for what they had to do next. For the third time that day, I exposed my stomach to an ultrasound machine, and we saw images of our sick child forming in blurred outlines on the screen.
“I’m so sorry that I have to do this,” the doctor told us, “but if I don’t, I can lose my license.” Before he could even start to describe our baby, I began to sob until I could barely breathe. Somewhere, a nurse cranked up the volume on a radio, allowing the inane pronouncements of a DJ to dull the doctor’s voice. Still, despite the noise, I heard him. His unwelcome words echoed off sterile walls while I, trapped on a bed, my feet in stirrups, twisted away from his voice.
“Here I see a well-developed diaphragm and here I see four healthy chambers of the heart…”
I closed my eyes and waited for it to end, as one waits for the car to stop rolling at the end of a terrible accident.
If you can read this entire post and still think that mandatory ultrasounds serve a purpose…you are an asshole.
That^.
In the United States of America we have actual doctors reading scripts riddled with inaccurate information provided to them by lawmakers pretending to be doctors.
(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
[TW: animated suicide gif]
DEMOCRATS ASK MCDONNELL TO FUND MANDATED ULTRASOUNDS | The Virginia legislature passed a GOP-backed anti-abortion measure requiring women to receive an ultrasound before having an abortion, which Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) promptly signed even though the unnecessary procedure adds an extra cost burden for women. Now, Democrats in the state Senate want McDonnell to support a budget modification that would require the state or insurance companies to cover the cost of the mandatory procedure. “While this will not change the inappropriateness of the legislation, it will, at least, ameliorate the financial burden,” Democrats wrote in a letter to McDonnell. The governor’s communications director dismissed the request as “political games.”
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Making pregnant people undergo an invasive, medically unnecessary, and expensive procedure to shame them out of a legal, constitutionally-protected medical procedure is: NOT political games.
Asking Republican lawmakers to take responsibility for their asinine law by making sure this vile mandate doesn’t become a cost prohibitive burden to patients: IS political games.
(Source: catbushandludicrous, via stfuconservatives)
Anonymous asked: I sent littlemisspolitical an ask on her personal blog saying I would likely kill myself or die from pregnancy because of the medication I’m on and a chronic condition. And she said “If you’re afraid of dying, why would you ever have sex?” Pro-life compassion at it’s finest. Apparently since I have mental health issues and a chronic illness, I don’t get to have sex! Ever!
Our anti-sex culture sickens me.
Anon, I’m in basically the same situation as you. I take several medications, I have several medical issues, and I know pregnancy would be too much for me physically and in terms of dysphoria. But nowhere in all of that do I consider those circumstances a reason for me to forgo intimacy. In fact, the two Supreme Court cases that legalized contraception for married couples and single people implicitly gives us the right to non-procreative sex. I’m afraid of dying from pregnancy, but an orgasm isn’t going to kill me and the two (pleasure and pregnancy) are no longer wrapped up in one another. It’s perfectly possible to have sex and not consent to pregnancy and it’s also perfectly possible to get pregnant without ever having sex.
I refuse to settle for living in a society where this ^ is my only option.
That awkward moment when antis tell me that if I’d just look into fetal development I’d change my mind about abortion.
Been there, done that.
Embryonic/fetal development:
- The Visible Embryo
- UNSW Embryology
- Embryology online course
- The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo
- Prenatal development table
- Prenatal development wiki
- The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 8th Edition (first chapter is viewable)
I’m informed and more prochoice than ever before. How’s the anti-science propaganda treating you?
