TW CW RAPE.

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I don’t know if this is exactly Incels but dudes basically trying to compare abortion to rape and calling women who abort rapists…

Now I, and many MANY other women are sadly victims of rape.. so this triggered me to the point of crying and vomiting so I’m sorry if this triggered anyone… I’m still crying and shaking I fucking can’t.. this was in a LOCAL Facebook group and this guy is just a town away!

I don’t care if you’re pro life or pro choice (I personally am pro choice..) but don’t you dare compare RAPE to abortion!

DONT you dare call yourself pro life unless you you donate to poor and struggling families. You aren’t pro life, you’re just pro control and anti choice ❤️❤️❤️ don’t like abortions, don’t have one! If my birth control fails, me and my boyfriend like the option to abort since I’m a college student and he’s a med student, neither of us can take care of a kid RN. And if you care about kids at all, you will know how flooded those adoption places are and how most kids don’t even get a chance and just rot in their. Don’t tell me “don’t want a baby, don’t have sex!” Yeah sure you dumb bitch, that might work with a sex Ed class with pre teens in Sunday school but that shit doesn’t work with ADULTS doing ADULT things. And plus what about 30+ year old married couples that don’t want kids??? Should they not have sex??? KAY thanks :)

In case you guys needed a reminder! ❤️ remember its always YOUR body, even IF a fetus is growing in it! It’s YOUR body, YOUR life, and YOUR choice. Never feel ashamed of making a choice you’ll be supported and loved if you keep it or decide to abort. To all the women that have had abortions. You aren’t a bad person you made a choice, don’t let people make you feel ashamed.

Can’t change my mind. Sorry.

So I keep seeing “pro life feminist!” And in my opinion a real feminist wouldn’t try telling a woman what to do with HER body.. if you don’t like abortions, that’s why you can be a feminist, but to tell another woman what she CAN and CANNOT do with her body??? FUCK OUTTA HERE???

You aren’t a feminist. Sorry. You don’t get to fight for women’s rights only to turn your ass around and scream and cry “WAAAAH YOURE NOT ALLOWED TO ABORT!!!” Like… if you don’t like abortion don’t have one! It’s not that hard guys.

A woman that you don’t even know, her having an abortion will not affect your life so why do you care???

Becuse being pro life is about controlling a woman and her body! It’s NOT about saving children because most these people don’t give a shit after the baby is born.

Sorry if I just offended any pro lifers but we don’t know the situation the woman is in so it’s best to just let her decide what’s best for her. Ive been seeing so many pro lifers trying to put a fetuses life above a developed woman’s life. You won’t change my mind so please don’t try. If you’re pro life Just Keep scrolling its not that hard..

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#OTW 1960: FDA Approves “THE PILL”

By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

The FDA’s May 9, 1960 approval of oral contraception, aka “the pill”, transformed reproductive health. Women’s health advocate Margaret Sanger spearheaded and activist/philanthropist Katherine McCormick funded the R&D needed for this medical research breakthrough to improve women’s lives through “birth control.”

Margaret Sanger, a nurse, coined the term “birth control” and dedicated herself to educating women. Her own mother had 18 pregnancies in 22 years and died from ovarian cancer. In 1914, she started a newsletter, The Woman Rebel, to “advocate the prevention of conception.”

The Woman Rebel, No. 1; 3/1914.

Sanger was indicted repeatedly and even arrested on obscenity charges under the Comstock Laws (1873) which defined birth control as obscene and made it illegal to send contraceptive devices or even info about it through the mail.

United States v. Margaret H. Sanger; 8/25/1914, National Archives at New York. Emphases added.

Flyer from benefit held on eve of Sanger’s trial for opening Brownsville Clinic. (Courtesy of Sanger Project).

Katherine McCormick heard Sanger speak in 1917 and grew convinced that women could only fully control their lives if they could control ifandwhenthey chose to bear children. She redirected her advocacy to the cause of birth control, even smuggling in diaphragms from Europe to New York at Sanger’s request.

When her husband Stanley died in 1947, Katherine inherited an estate estimated worth almost $40 million (more than $500 million today). Margaret Sanger introduced her to Gregory Pincus who was doing pioneering research on fertilization and hormones.

Katharine funneled to Dr. Pincus more than $2 million ($25 million today), nearly all of the money used to support his lab’s research and development of the contraceptive pill.

Read the National Archives Prologue Magazine storyRich, Famous, and Questionably Sane to learn how McCormick, who was blamed her husband’s inability to consummate his own marriage, became the catalyst for the sexual revolution.

Women Hold Banner at National Women’s Conference, November 1977. NARA ID 7452290.

See also:

• Records of Rightsexhibit:Anti-Contraception Campaign 1914
• DocsTeach:Indictment of Margaret H. Sanger, 8/25/1914
• DocsTeach:Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel
• DocsTeach:Reproductive Rights Documents
• Margaret Sanger Papers, supported in part by the National Archives National Historical Publications and Records Commission
• Women’s Rights-related records
• Women’s Rights: Legislation and Advocacy
• Women’s History Month Special Topics page

I hate politics but this is important

“The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition.  It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices.”

Abortion bans are Unconstitutional. Pass it along!

“My Body My Fucking Choice” - @bkcollage

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I don’t know about you but I am totally obsessed with Call the Midwife, each Sunday we have to sit down with a cup of tea and watch an hour of pencil skirts and placentas. I think it comes with the territory of having a midwife for a mother, anything remotely baby orientated we have to watch. But its not just her, I love this little snapshot into an obstetric past.

But the really interesting thing to me is that how lucky we are to live such in a fortunate time period and place, in terms of the health care available and the free contraceptives. Not only that, but we now live in a time when we have the freedom to make our own choices of how we wish to live our lives.

In the show we have seen the lengths that women have gone to when they have found themselves pregnant in a time when they really couldn’t afford to be. In Episode 3 [Spoiler Alert] of the latest series, an unmarried teacher finds herself pregnant by her married lover. In these times where it was taboo to a single mother, she felt the need to perform an abortion upon herself to disastrous affect. Instead of carrying it out successfully she pierced her uterus and had to have a hysterectomy.

In 1960, when this episode was set, abortion was still illegal, to the degree that the women who did this to themselves were questioned by the police. Originally outlawed in Lord Ellenborough’s Act (1803) and later the Offences against the Person Act of 1828,punishment was so severe that there was the rusk of death penalty. It feels shocking in modern society that a women could receive such punishment after coming to such an agonising decision.

It wasn’t until 1967 that the Abortion Act was passed in the UK, in which the government decreed that to reduce the rate of disease and death associated with illegal abortion that the procedure should be legalised on the grounds that if a continuation of pregnancy would cause either: physical or mental injury to the woman, to her existing children, or if the child was likely to be severely handicapped. This was all to be provided free of charge as part of the service of the NHS which was established in 1948. At this point the abortions could still be performed until 28 weeks, in 1990 it was amended to 24 weeks.

In England, Scotland and Wales we are lucky that these laws were passed, as only across the Irish sea other women do not have this choice. Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 ensures that they can’t, apart from where continuing the pregnancy would pose a severe risk to the pregnant persons life. These irish women  have to plan trips to travel to the UK, in order to have an abortion carried out, if they should decide to.

The actions of the Abortion Act became part of the sexual revolution and gave people a freedom of choice. Any woman who felt that she could not cope with a child at that point or that the baby would end up living a andicapped life could safely have an abortion. The backstreet, unsanitary conditions of abortions of the past are no longer, no one will die in preventable circumstances because they had to resort to unsafe methods.

How Everyone (Women) Are feeling RN in Today’s (5/3/22) News

Seriously, guys! WTF! IS! GOING! ON! HERE!?! THIS IS NO JOKE! THIS WORLD IS SO GOING BACKWARDS RN!! LADIES, BE SAFE, WHEREVER YOU GO!!!

“Gilead doesn’t care about children. Gilead cares about power.”

Unfortunately this sounds familiar. #bansoffourbodies

“Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before. That’s how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn’t wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn’t wake up then either. They said it would be temporary.”

-Margaret Atwood

Well…I was just denied necessary medical care (medication injected into my eye needed after a blood vessel ruptured under my retina causing blindness in my left eye) because I’m not on birth control.

The safety of a potential fetus that I would absolutely not willingly carry to term is more important than my current health. I’ve received 4 injections so far, but today it’s magically no longer an option.