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Question still not answered.
Why is abortion pro-woman? Someone answered, and I responded. I was disappointed with a lack of explanation. Choice? We choose to use contraception and have sex. Abortion. Sure! It’s a choice! So is taking drugs and drinking under 21. So is drunk driving and what clubs we go to. But 1.5million abortions have taken place in the Us… So I’m confused. What is this movement? Apparently we can have abortions. Those clinics exist. Are they in the private sector?
You know what this suddenly reminds me of? The contraception movement. That was a movement towards unplanned pregnancy too, and they believed it was pro-women too. And maybe it is. Who knows? But it didn’t decrease unplanned pregnancy. Why? Our reproductive health classes are shit. Like I want to re-iterate, it shouldn’t be an abortion movement if you wanted a PRO-WOMEN movement. Because ignorance is not really pro women, and the only way to counter that is education, not other opportunities.
Please refer to previous post if you don’t want to take this post out of context when I talk about sexual health and education.
Gonna bypass the word-vomit of the first paragraph and… uh, access to contraception doesn’t decrease unplanned pregnancy?
You might want to rethink that.
I mean, yeah. Abstinence-only education leads to a decreased use of contraception, but that doesn’t imply jack shit about the impact that the “contraception movement” had on unplanned pregnancies…
How about you stop telling women what’s best for them, period? Both education and the opportunity to get the medical attention they need are key here. Talking like that doesn’t really give you a right to go around telling people what’s pro-women and what isn’t.
And by the by, while the abortion issue is steeped in misogyny, it’s important to know that not only women can get pregnant and are heavily affected by this. Do some reading before you come back to this: Google is your friend.
How about you stop telling women what’s best for them, period?
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I think liberal women have a little thing called jealousy that makes them hate us conservative women so much ;)
Yes, because in the end, women only care about looks and all of our feelings and opinions are linked to how we “stack up” against other women.
Way to use the “jealous and shallow woman” trope to explain the differences between Conservative and Liberal women, rather than discussing the differences in ideologies and lifestyles. Because obviously we can absolutely NO good arguments against Conservative women other than “they’re prettier” (which, by the way, is subjective, and I’m pretty sure you could find as many attractive Liberal women as Conservative, but that really doesn’t matter when you’re trying to prove a moot point.)
But whatever. Have fun with that internalized misogyny :D
Reblogging for commentary, also, I really can’t stand the whole “a person’s appearance is somehow related to their worth” bullshit.
It’s shallow and childish.
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An art student at my school, Western Kentucky University, is getting tons of national heat right now for her own backlash against a pro-life group. The group covered an entire set of bleachers with 4,000 crosses and from the art classroom windows you could see that it spelled out the word “LIFE.” They also targeted students walking by and asked them questions about abortion and had a board up that said, “How do you justify abortion?” This went on for a full week. She, I and many others at my school felt voiceless and bombarded. She responded with an art piece for her class, which was covering the crosses in condoms. The university police did not interfere as it was a freedom of speech, but now my school administration is demanding a public apology from her and does not support her actions. She has so far refused to apologize, but nationally, there is no one on her side, especially since Fox News got involved.
Please read this blog post by a gender and women’s studies professor at WKU for more details and educated insight. Show support and show this student and my school that she does not owe an apology. We’re trying to make this viral enough to where we can get Rachel Maddow to pay attention and speak out about it. Help spread the word and let’s overtake the bigoted anti-choice voices that are attacking this student right now.
Breaking: Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying
This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women and minorities from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women.
Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.”
And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.”
See a video compilation of the exchange at the link.
I’ve bolded the part I thought needed the most attention.
You know what that statement says? That says that women shouldn’t be allowed to talk ever, the men are being important and making important decisions, so the women should shut up and just take it.
IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH THESE PEOPLE TALK ABUOT IT BEING A RELIGIOUS FREEDOM/RIGHTS MATTER, THAT’S BULLSHIT - BECAUSE GUESS THE FUCK WHAT? IT IS A CONTRACEPTIVE, REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL AUTONOMY MATTER.
THE EMPLOYEES WHO HAPPEN TO HAVE WOMBS ARE GOING TO BE AFFECTED BY THIS DECISION. THE EMPLOYEES WHO HAPPEN TO BE ABLE TO GET PREGNANT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS.
AND LOOK WHO’S ON THIS PANEL. OLD, WHITE, CIS-MEN OF A RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVE BENT.
TELL ME THESE OLD, WHITE, CONSERVATIVE, RELIGIOUS CIS-MEN AREN’T JUST SCARED OF WOMEN HAVING CONTROL OF THEIR OWN BODIES.
GO ON. TELL ME THAT. WITH A STRAIGHT FACE AND NO SNIGGERING.
Fuck the Republicans.
Sometimes I am so grateful to be British. I get to actually have control over my womb here.
~Mooglets
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The Dark Side of Feminism
I’d just like to state my opinion before writing this post as to not confuse people: I think that it’s fantastic that women are standing up for their rights because there’s no denying that in the past, women have been through some tough shit and to a certain extent, still are. I’d say that 90% of the feminists I’ve spoken to are lovely people who are genuinely passionate about working to achieve that paradise goal of a gender-equal society.
But there’s a dark and disgusting corner of feminism that makes my piss boil. I think it’s fair to say that we all know the type; the feminist who doesn’t want gender equality but instead wants revenge. Revenge for the oppression of the women of the past, or maybe something more personal. These “extremists” who justify their misandrist actions by saying utter bullshit such as “Women are allowed to hate men, just like how black people can hate white people”.
I have never heard so much moronic dribble in all of my life. How can you expect to get a gender equal society of you let your blind hatred for men poison your actions? Feminism is all about not seeing gender as a thing to deter, the passion of one day reaching a society in which gender has no meaning whatsoever; a place where men and women don’t exist, we just have people. The only way we can achieve this is by men and women working together as a team. Sexism is ALWAYS wrong, no matter who it’s aimed at!
I think if that post included any more straw feminism, it’d be a fire hazard.
You aren’t listening, and that’s sad.
Have a good life, kid.
thisgingersnapsback is my girlfriend, OP, and I can tell you from personal experience that she does not, in fact, hate men, she also happens love sex.
Fail.
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Would it be wrong of me to start an article with an “I told you so?” Probably, but I’m going to it anyhow. In numerous articles, I (and many of my esteemed colleagues) have said that when given the information and the tools to do it, teens will act responsibly when it comes to their sexual health. We now have more data to prove that because the CDC announced earlier this month that teen birth rates hit a record low in 2010. Last year, there were 34 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19. This is a 9 percent decline from 2009 and marks the third year in a row that birth rates came down. (Teen pregnancy rates have not yet been released but because there was also a decline in the teen abortion rate, researcher believe that overall teen pregnancy rates went down as well.)
As the Guttmacher Institute explains this good news is almost exclusively linked to improvements in teens’ use of contraception.
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Teen Contraceptive Use Goes Up, Birth Rates Come Down | AlterNet
You guys, this is super shocking. You mean to tell me that comprehensive education on contraceptive use and widespread availability of contraception (which are both under fire and neither are widespread enough) leads to more teens (and everyone) using contraception effectively? And contraception use leads to fewer unwanted pregnancies?
This is brand new information.
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Y’know what your fetus is really saying to you?
Nothing.
Because it’s a fetus.
A cluster of cells incapable of thinking, feeling, writing, or saying anything.
It doesn’t know who you are, it doesn’t know what it is, it doesn’t even know it exists.
It’s not writing you fucking prose from your uterus.
I’m going to write a story about a brave little red blood cell who is sad when it dies from being let out of it’s cozy vein by a paper cut!
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"The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man’s bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire…Here is the Bible position of woman briefly summed up."
— Elizabeth Cady-Stanton (via brittanibotulism)
This is a personal story. This isn’t going to be filled with my usual facts and statistics. You’ll also get to learn a little something about me.
I have Familial Polyposis and Gardner Syndrome. I get frequent adenomatous (carrying the threat of cancer) polyps in my stomach, small intestine, and am at high risk to develop polyps in other parts of my body. Just recently my mother learned she has polyps growing on her ampulla, and soon has to undergo surgery to have the entire gland removed. I am at risk for similar complications. I have psoriasis—though minimal, located on my left ear, though it is a sign of an auto-immune deficiency. My mother has it worse. My back is terrible, my sleeping sucks, and despite the minimal threat of cancer hovering over me, I live with the threat of colon cancer completely gone because when I was 16, I had my entire large intestine removed because it was covered in polyps. Thousands of them. Adenomatous, and a ticking time-bomb. Colon cancer would have been impossible to avoid. Because I have no large intestine, I am frequently malnourished. I am anemic, and have a severe Vitamin D deficiency.
All of this is genetic. All of it. My mother has the disease, her mother has the disease, so on and so forth. The likelihood of me passing on these genes to offspring is staggering. I would never wish this burden upon the life of another. I would never wish the physical trauma, the mental burden, or even the financial weight a person with these cracked genetics must carry, even upon my worst enemy. It’s something I joke about constantly, because that tends to be the easiest way to deal with it. I ignore it. I forget about it.
I don’t want to be pregnant. This doesn’t mean that I don’t want children—despite how I may grumble, I actually like kids. I had always entertained the idea of children being a part of my life, perhaps adoption, etc. In recent years, painfully close to the time I realized that bearing a child might not be the best idea for me, I developed the desire to give birth. To actually conceive. With cysts and scar tissue, I’m not sure that by now it’s even an option for me, but logically and rationally—and painfully—I realize that pregnancy would be one of the worst things I could ever endure.
I’ve discussed it with my doctors, and with my OBGYN, and they are beginning to begrudgingly agree with me. I am on the Nuva Ring, though it is more expensive, because it is less likely to fail—either due to the medicine itself or to human error (aka, forgetting.) I want a tubal ligation. I want the opportunity to experience pregnancy, but the process would be terror on my body, and considering I’m malnourished enough as it is, the likelihood of the fetus surviving is slim. At the very least there would be many complications.
I want my tubes tied, and even though I have only just begun to actively seek this out, I have been met with an astounding wave of negativity and hostility. Some who listen only hear “A woman who doesn’t want a child? What’s wrong with her?” Some tell me, “You’ll change your mind in the future.” Some say, “But it’ll be worth it.”
And those are just friends, co-workers, family, acquaintances. The doctors and nurses, they look at me and frown. They think, “She’s just 21. She has no idea what she wants.” And that’s the most common reason for a tubal ligation denial. That because a woman hasn’t had children, she might change her mind. To me that says, “You’re incapable of making this decision. You will regret your decision. It’s not your decision to make.”
I want to tear my hair out. I want to scream at them, that clearly I do know what I want. I do want children, I do want to experience pregnancy! That even though I am aware it is untrue, I feel almost less of a woman because bearing a child would be difficult, if at all possible! That I am in anguish, tormented and angry. That I want all of these things, that I want and I want and I want, but that I know it is a terrible decision.
My newly-beginning battle with my decision is why the opportunity to Choose is so important to me. Because an abortion would truthfully be the wise decision for me, though it honestly kills me to say it. I have always been a proponent of Choice, even when I felt that I could personally never have an abortion myself—simply because it is not something I could picture myself doing, it never occurred to me that every other woman ought to operate the exact same way. And now I fight so viciously because it is a matter close to my heart. It is a matter that tears me apart.
I am fighting to never be faced with that Choice, but if it ever arose, I know what I would do, and I know why. And I don’t care if I am crucified for it, because those who judge and those who would call me killer are not me. It is my Choice, and it matters to me because it is a decision I have already made.
New bumper sticker to add to my ever-growing collection. I tried posting this once already, but Tumblr was being a bit of a douchecanoe.
Anywhozle~
Mind your own damn uterus!
This one is one of my favorites!
“A feminist isn’t someone who agrees with every woman on the basis that she’s a woman. It pisses me off to no end when someone expects me to support their agenda because we’re both women. I can support your rights as a woman and still disagree with your views. If being a…
(Source: bitchitudeblog.com, via glittertitties-deactivated20130)
