Beatriz, a 22-year old El Salvadorian woman who is identified in the press only by her first name, is dying. She suffers from lupus, a chronic auto-immune disease that causes body’s immune system to destroy its own healthy tissue, and her condition typically worsens when she is pregnant. Since Beatriz is now about 23 weeks […]
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Despite the fact that Roe v. Wade has been in place for over 40 years by now, women’s reproductive rights still aren’t safe. Anti-choice activists are chipping away at women’s access to reproductive health care from all angles — piling on dozens of state-level restrictions, driving up the cost of abortion services, and ultimately enacting […]keep your goddamn rosaries off my fucking ovaries, assholes.
Pro-Choice Messages and Mothers
That last anon - me too! My mother had gotten pregnant several years before I was born and was in no position to raise a child. She waited until after she was married and had an established job before she had me to try and insure that she would be able to provide for a child.
I would probably not even be here if she had gone through with that first pregnancy, nor would my two younger brothers.
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When evangelicals were pro-choice – CNN Belief Blog
In 1968, Christianity Today published a special issue on contraception and abortion, encapsulating the consensus among evangelical thinkers at the time. In the leading article, professor Bruce Waltke, of the famously conservative Dallas Theological Seminary, explained the Bible plainly teaches that life begins at birth:
“God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: ‘If a man kills any human life he will be put to death’ (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22–24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense… Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.”
The magazine Christian Life agreed, insisting, “The Bible definitely pinpoints a difference in the value of a fetus and an adult.” And the Southern Baptist Convention passed a 1971 resolution affirming abortion should be legal not only to protect the life of the mother, but to protect her emotional health as well.
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If you applied the typical pro-abort argument to circumcision, this would be it:
No penis, no opinion.
Yeah that’s exactly true. Although more accurately it’s: not YOUR penis, not YOUR choice. Ditto for abortion; unless the foetus is in your uterus then it’s got nothing to do with you.
Why the fuck do they try using arguments like these.
The whole point of pro-choice is being in control of your body.
So yeah, circumcision? No penis, no opinion.
It’s not fucking rocket science, but it’s no surprise it took ya’ll this long to catch up.
That awkward moment when a pro-lifer accidentally figures it out.
That’s why it’s pro-choice. As in, people making their own choices.
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I’m betting religious conservatives would flip out and try to have them removed.
This isn’t a bad idea though. Someone needs to inform people that they’re being wilfully mislead.
That’s a really good idea. Freedom of Speech goes both ways. If they’re allowed to protest outside abortion clinic, why can’t pro-choice people do it outside of CPCs?
^^ That was exactly my line of thinking here!
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What the fuck is wrong with you? It’s not a spontaneous abortion, idiot. It’s a miscarriage. That’s like saying slipping and falling off of a ladder is “spontaneous homicide”.
Miscarriage is often described as spontaneous abortion because guess what? A miscarriage is the body’s way of aborting the pregnancy. Both are termination. Miscarriage, spontaneous abortion? it’s all the same.
Yeah, in my Advanced Med. Term. class, the teacher had to explain this to people a thousand times. Doctors sometimes will even write down “abortion” or “spontaneous abortion” when a person has a miscarriage, because that’s what it’s medically called.
There’s nothing wrong with referring to things with proper terminology. No one is trying to say that the person WANTED miscarriage by calling it a spontaneous abortion.
Yeah, because on Tumblr, everybody is so concerned with using the correct medical terminology. Absolutely nobody is attempting to use biased language to indicate their own benign view of abortion. Nobody at all.
I don’t know where your sass and attitude is coming from, but there is no need to catch one because I’m pointing out facts.
I’m quite aware that people on Tumblr like to use biased language, thank you very much. It doesn’t mean I can’t point out to folks where they’re wrong on a subject. It also doesn’t mean that people should just continue to go around spreading misinformation on words, which is what your original post did, because, FYI, miscarriages ARE the body’s way of aborting a pregnancy. Like it or not, that is what it is, and if you’re going to talk about a subject, be informed.
Sorry if me and hitmeagaintubsock’s pointing that out to you caused so much distress.
Damn, that bordered on “HOW DARE YOU TELL ME I’M WRONG WHEN I’M WRONG!!!”
Also, nice deflationary tactic there by extremecapitalism, people were talking about misuse of a medical term, which is precisely what you were doing.
Again, I love how pro-lifers always have to misrepresent fetal development, misrepresent what an abortion looks like, and misrepresent medical terms to push their agenda.
I think that says a lot about their agenda.
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Anonymous Asked:
Why do you enjoy being so cruel and hurtful?
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Dear anonymous, I apologize if I’ve ever been cruel or hurtful to anyone. Truly, it hurts me when I am, and so I try never to offend someone. Please, let me know where and how I’ve hurt someone, so I can better apologize.
Perhaps though, before accusing me of being cruel and hurtful, you can look at what I’ve received on tumblr, and see if it is comparable.
a) Just because some people have said mean things to you doesn’t absolve you of your responsibility and history of being cruel and hurtful. You’re a jackass. Fucking live with it. Don’t pawn this shit off on “OH BUT OTHER PEOPLE ARE SOOOO MUCH MEANER! LOOK AT THEIR BAAAAD LANGUAGE!” because that’s just pathetic. You can be a cruel dickbag without using a single “vile” word—you’re practically a pro.
b) You had two anons which directly came from my blog, presumably (considering it was after your asinine attempt to manipulate me during a family tragedy, and both had to do with you being cruel, and one in particular—which followed this message, proving you saw my response to your fucked up message—specifically mentioned what you did) and haven’t yet apologized for what you did to me. So no, don’t play up this whole saintly martyr act, “I’m pure and innocent, look at all the people who are mean to meeeee! I’m practically the next Jesus Christ! And if I’ve ever so much as hurt a fly, please let me know!” because it’s bullshit. You took “mean quotes” directly from the comments in the #notes on my response, meaning you SAW what I wrote, you KNEW it pissed me off, but have you apologized? Fuck no! And don’t worry—by this point I don’t want it. A forced apology isn’t a real apology—not that I’d ever expect your ego to bend enough for you to issue what is considered a “real” apology. So step off with your holier-than-thou shit. You don’t care who you offend—you determine offense on your OWN terms, which rids you of absolutely any personal responsibility to own up to your own actions when someone, even polite as can fucking be, says “Hey. That’s offensive.”
c) I hope you realize what you did hurt me, and I hope it hurts you. I hope it hurts you reeeeal bad. Own up to it. It wasn’t genuine, it was you lurking like a fucking creep on my blog until you found the perfect ammunition for which to fuel your manipulative “I’m a good Catholic! Look how good I am! I’m praying for and being nice to a girl who’s meeeeeean to me! Who supports abortion! Who’s a gigantic slut! Look how awesome I am, not judging her! I really AM the next Jesus!” tripe. You might ignore me because of my potty mouth, but I know you know I can’t stand you. You ought to have known that you had NO place in my personal life and that I want NOTHING to do with you.
Your actions were not altruistic.
At the very least, stop deluding yourself about how good of a person you are, dear. And from now on, maybe look beyond a person’s tone (this will fall on deaf ears, because people have spoon-fed you this lesson time and time again and yet you refuse to hear it) and look at why they’re upset—why YOU have made them upset.
You might get a bit farther with your anti-choice, woman-hating rhetoric that way. But hopefully not.
Yeah, this whole “but I’m a nice person because I don’t say bad words” is fucking bullshit.
Look up psychopathy, and I mean that in all seriousness. His behavior is psychopathological and manipulative.
How many “pro-lifers” does it take to change a light bulb?
Six. Two to screw in the bulb and four to testify that it was lit from the moment they began screwing.
Sorry. That’s what they are. When you threaten people, try to prevent access to clinics, fire-bomb clinics, threaten doctors, release their personal information, and in some cases kill them, that is terrorism.
I’m sorry that society at large in the US doesn’t want to call it what it is because of it’s affiliation with Christianity and it’s pretty name, but when you support pro-life activists, you are supporting domestic terrorism.
99% of pro-life people don’t do any of those things! You are taking the minority and the extremists and making it out to be the majority which is completely wrong in every sense. Your generalizations are not spot on at all. I think you need to educate yourself and maybe talk to pro-life people and have conversations with them instead of assuming.
Here is a post by rabbleprochoice that explains what I am talking about.
Wow, anti-choicers, once again, you have baffled us all with your supersmarts.
Hitler’s mom thought about having an abortion too…
I’m really starting to wonder if this blog is satire.
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