I Was A Naïve Pro-Lifer

thethrillofpwning:

odddior:

i know there’s a lot going on but ICE are now one step closer to literally creating gas chambers. they are spraying a chemical called HDQ neutral roughly 100 times a day, every 15 minutes at the adelanto detention center (one of the biggest in the country). people are getting rashes, headaches, their insides are bleeding, etc. the guards are wearing gloves and masks but the detainees have NOTHING.

and here’s a quick reminder - america inspired the nazis to create gas chambers when they gassed latino people during the 1917 bath riots. 

here’s a petition to sign. it’s close to it’s goal. if there’s anything else we can do to help i’ll update this post.

You can donate to the two human rights groups who are filing the complaint:

• Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice
• Freedom for Immigrants

You can also contact the Adelanto City Council and urge them to fire the city manager, Jessie Flores, who was revealed to have “involvement and collusion with” GEO Group, the for-profit prison company that owns the Adelanto ICE detention center.

You may also want to urge them to stop the planned expansion of GEO’s ICE detention facility from 1,940 to 2,690 beds, a deal that went through due to city management’s collusion.

You can call the City of Adelanto City Hall at 760-246-2300.

You can also email Jessie Flores and tell him to fuck off directly at jflores@ci.adelanto.ca.us.

(via i-was-a-naive--antifeminist)

dinosaurjam:

sashayed:

oh my god? oh my god? oh my god? oh my god?? oh m

Like honestly if you have never known the horror of being told your own body doesn’t belong to you then you will never understand how this feels

His name is Justin Humphrey.

(via orpheusmorpheous)

If you’re looking for ways to help defend Planned Parenthood, here are some suggestions for Planned Parenthood themselves.

I was 16 and scared. My whole life I’d always told myself that I would never have an abortion and that I was somehow “better” than those who had. My life was turned completely upside down because I just didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t do this alone and the only one who new was my significant other. The stress and emotional pain of feeling like my life was over lead me to taking an attempt at my life. I was in hospital for 2 weeks and had one of the worst doctors I’ve ever met tell me that I should keep the baby and put pressure on me to do so (even going so far as to make me tell my mother in a meeting so I could actually leave the hospital). After all of this I finally was able to leave and make an appointment to go to a clinic out of town. On the day of my surgery I was brought to a hospital where outside I could see a small group of protesters. I came to find out they had no idea where the clinic was and that unlike the movies no one would attack me as I went through the doors. Finally I was in the clinic and hooked up to an IV and administered pain killers. The surgery was explained to me and they told me I shouldn’t feel any pain. All that they really did was take a special vacuum and clean out my uterus. Afterwards I cried and laughed and was very dopey for the next 24 hours.
I’m glad I got my abortion because now I’m about to go to college and start my career. I’m going to have the life I never could of had with a child and I want to send out my support to all those who are scared or worried because of stigma. I’m here 100% and my asks are always open for those just wanting to learn or in need of support.

protego-et-servio:

As a woman who has had an abortion, the whole “pro-choice isn’t pro-abortion ” line is frustrating and hurtful.

Being pro-choice IS pro-abortion. And pro-adopting out and pro-parenthood. It encompasses all those choices.

Yeah, anti-choicers try to reduce the pro-choice message by using pro-abortion. But abortion has been stigmatized far worse than the other choices. We need to show our support.

I’m pro-abortion, because that IS part of being pro-choice. And that doesn’t make me ashamed.

(via howprolifeofyou)

shitantichoiceprotesterssay:

“The girl found out she was pregnant in the summer of 2013, after a relationship with a boy a year older than her and who she said was physically abusive. In written evidence submitted to the court, her lawyers said he threatened to kick the baby out of her, and to stab it if it was born.”

I notice no charges for the boy. 

UTERUS HAVERS ARE THE ONES MADE TO BE SHAMED AND TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF LAWS LIKE THIS. 

Anonymous asked: There is a website called TeenBreaks that is "supposed" to give info and support to pregnant teens. They have a section for "real life stories" and all of the abortion stories they actually allowed to be posted are horrifyingly negative and scary. Its super manipulative. Positive experiences exist so I like to tell people to send them their positive abortion stories on the site.(and even negative birth or adoption stories if they want). Even if they never get posted it proves a point.

Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of these websites and places run by anti-choicers that have the veneer of being neutral but are really just anti-abortion propaganda: see also crisis pregnancy centers and anti-choice pregnancy help lines.

There’s a lot of places that collect positive/neutral abortion stories, though: I created this post with a number of positive abortion stories, including teenage abortion stories. There’s several websites that post positive and neutral abortion stories:

My Abortion, My Life

Our Bodies Ouselves

The Abortion Diary Podcast

1 in 3 Campaign

#ShoutYourAbortion YouTube channel

Not Alone

Project Voice

Thanks, Abortion

NARAL: Stories About Abortion

And a recent study showed that 95% of people who get abortions don’t regret them. This is by no means meant to invalidate the people who do regret terminating their pregnancies. Statistically, however, these stories are very overrepresented in web searches and news media.

terffighter420:

tygerofaera:

prochlorperazines:

tygerofaera:

happyterfradfemblog:

spencer-shay-against-gender:

theresagooseinthemainframe:

shitantichoiceprotesterssay:

maggierumplefrank:

This is something I just shared on FB about my experiences as a patient escort. Just thought I’d put it on here too.

Alright y'all. Prepare for a long post, but one you should read.

Some of you know, but some of you don’t, that I volunteer at Planned Parenthood about twice a month. My official title is Volunteer Clinic Escort. My role is to safely get patients and family into the clinic safely, with privacy, and with a friendly face. Not all Planned Parenthoods (PP) have these, but the clinic where I volunteer does because we have loud, abrasive, volatile, threatening, verbally abusive and dishonest anti-choice protesters who harass people in the clinic. I would like to tell you about my experiences with them and with patients who talk to me as I stand outside with my umbrella and vest.

(I would like to note that this is not the place to tell me that abortion is wrong, that I should not support PP, that I need to stop what I’m doing. I’ve heard every argument before. In fact, I’ve had every arguement screamed in my face. You’re welcome to your opinion, but I will not be acknowledging it on here, and I ask that others ignore dissenters too. This post isn’t about me and why you think I’m wrong. It’s about what I see every time I volunteer.)

When I am volunteering, I am outside and often have patients and family members talk with me. I’m obviously not there to counsel or to offer advice medically one way or another, but I am a friendly ear and people just need to talk sometimes. Also, when volunteering, patients entering the clinic are verbally harassed by the anti choice protesters almost immediately and, while we don’t encourage it, they often yell back. The protesters don’t listen.

On my very first day, I had a person head into the clinic. As I smiled to her and went to get the door, an anti-choice protester (ACP) yelled “Mama! Don’t kill your baby!” The patient immediately responded tearfully “my baby is dead. My baby is falling out of me right now. I didn’t do anything.” The ACP, without missing a beat, screamed back through her child-sized megaphone “No he isn’t! Your doctor lied to you! These murderers just want your money!” I ushered in the patient as gently as I could while my co-volunteer told her kindly that those people didn’t matter and that in a week they wouldn’t even remember what they heard here.

In the year and a half I’ve been doing this, we have had a ACP sneak into the clinic and threaten to burn the place down. The police did nothing. We had two other ACPs try and enter the clinic to tell patients they would adopt their babies. We told them to get off the property and when they didn’t, we called the police. Eventually the ACP returned to the narrow strip of lawn they stand on at the edge of the parking lot, and luckily so, because the police never showed again.

My clinic, luckily, has never faced extreme violence while I was there. But other PP and health care clinics are not so lucky. They are burned down, have bombs planted, have clinic escorts and workers physically harmed.

They are shot at and three people die.

I have had patients tell me that they will be killed by their partner if they have an abortion. I have been told that their partner will kill them if they DON’T have one. I’ve been told how people with physical disabilities cannot carry a child without side effects so severe they may not survive. I’ve had patients explain that their mental health is at risk if they go through with the pregnancy. I’ve had patients come in with a wanted pregnancy that ended in miscarriage and they needed PPs help to safely remove the tissue. I’ve seen people come in who admit to being addicted to drugs and know they cannot go through this pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood helped all these people, not just with medical care, but with helping abused patients find help to escape violent partners. Helping those who want to conceive find fertility doctors. Helping drug addicts find resources to become healthy.

All the while, the ACP stand outside, screaming and hollering, telling women that they are murderers and whores and that they will burn for murdering their babies. But it’s ok, they do it out of love. They scream at these people and tell them awful things and then beg to have the patient come talk with them.

They don’t see the hypocrisy.

It is a rule to not engage with the ACP at all. In the year and a half I’ve been doing this, I’ve said maybe a total of 50 words to the group, all of which are some form of “you are on our property, step back right now.” I may not engage them, but we can make eye contact and make them believe we are listening. We do this so the ACP begins shouting at me, and not a patient getting air outside. I would much rather be shouted at than have them scream at a patient.

When I am being yelled at, I have been called: a murderer, a nazi, a slavery supporter, a bad mother, a bad wife (they do not know if I am married or if I have children), a witch, a lesbian, a liberal, a member of satan’s army, a Muslim lover, a bitch, a slut, and evil. Some of these things are true and some are perfectly fine things to be, but to the ACP they are all bad.

Sometimes we have patient partners come talk to the protesters. They try and explain to the ACP why they are there with their partner. I’ve heard them tell the ACP every single reason, and every single time, the protesters still tell them they are wrong and a bad father and a supporter of Satan. Every. Time. And they call this love.

Since Trump took office, one of his first orders signed was a Global Gag Rule. People thought that this rule meant that no US money would go to pay for abortions overseas, but in fact, US funds have never paid for abortions and haven’t since 1973. Even in the US, because of the Hyde Amendment, no federal funding goes to pay for abortions.

What this gag rule now does, however, is prevent money from going to clinics that even mention abortion as a method of family planning. They don’t have to perform them. If they are mentioned at all in pamphlets or classes, they lose foreign aid money. This means that now they can’t provide birth control, wellness checks, prenatal care, or classes.

This will cause unwanted pregnancies. This will cause people to seek out abortions, often in unsafe condition.

This will cause people to die.

Roughly 1/3 people with a uterus will have an abortion in their life. I haven’t spoken to everyone who has had one, but I’ve spoken to more than most. No one gets an abortion out of malice. No one gets an abortion just to end the life of a fetus, just for kicks. No. One.

Planned Parenthood provides important health services, including abortion. They do this despite the risk of physical bodily harm, every day. People like myself stand outside PP to protect patients because it is important.

We. Will. Not. Stand. Down.

I will continue to volunteer, even though since Trump was elected, the ACP have gotten more and more aggressive in their tactics, since they believe Trump supports their actions. I will continue to walk these patients inside, to get help, because it is important and right. I will continue to fight Trump the slew of anti choice people supporting him. I will continue to support choice even though I know I will lose friends and will face hatred from people I know.

Planned Parenthood is important, and we will not stand down.

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PEOPLE WITH A FETUS. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. EVERY FUCKING TIME.

I keep reading these brilliant posts and then right at the end the author casually dehumanizes women and I am so, so tired. Fuck the trans cult and their self obsessed autogynephiles for doing this. Fuck them all. We’re burning and you just keep on kicking us. We have decades of hard fought progress torn from us with the flick of a pen and you don’t even have the decency to NAME us! Get the fuck away from women, get the fuck away from feminism, just get out.

“People with a uterus” 

Those patients you claim you’re protecting are WOMEN. HUMAN BEINGS. Not fetus or uterus holders. Goddamit, why can’t genderists who claim to do good things actually be good people?

When the people who are supposed to support us let us down repeatedly.

Look at a great post ruined by Bigots that literally oppose equalized language.

And wow…Goosey Mainframe went into all sorts of bigotry and villainizing trans folks.

hey terfs you guys don’t get to claim ur ‘good people’ when u talk about the immigrant list Trump is gonna make, but not about how inherently racist and fascist it is, oh no! but claiming that there’ll be a ‘terf’ list next. as if we didn’t need more proof you’re all racist and white supremacist collaborators that couldn’t give a shit about anyone but yourselves

Every single hard TERF of note is middle aged to boomer and white.

Brennan, Bindel, Burchill, Hungerford, Bev Jo, Morgan, Murphy, Moran, Greer, Gallus Mag, Jeffrey’s, Raymond…and on and on.

Everyone else is fodder and background noise.

even so, saying “people that can carry fetuses” literally means JUST THAT WOW OMG. Some cisgender women are incapable of having children. Some trans people are. This isn’t erasure, it’s just accurately naming a group of people who can bear children.

(via howprolifeofyou)

59% of people who get abortions have already given birth to at least one child. Here are 5 stories from parents who got abortions.

[Raymond} Kethledge has also argued that “evidence of past consensual sex” between a rapist and victim should be taken into account when evaluating cases having to do with rape and consent, thereby perpetuating the myth that giving consent once implies consent for all future sexual encounters.

This man is also strongly anti-choice, in case you needed to see again how rape culture and anti-abortion culture are the same thing.

“Consent to past sexual encounters is consent to future sexual encounters.” “Consent to sex is consent to pregnancy.” Almost like he doesn’t actually believe in the concepts of consent and bodily autonomy 🤔