So I’ve seen a ton of people talking about donating to Planned Parenthood so I just wanted to remind people that there are 2 places to donate and the difference is SUPER important!
Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the healthcare side which takes care of all the stuff going on inside your local clinic. The website is blue, and any money it receives cannot go to any political or legal actions because of the government funding they receive. Their site looks like this:
Planned Parenthood Action Fund is the side which handles the politics. Their website is pink, they fund any legal actions, protests, rallies, any political thing you can think of they handle. Their site looks like this:
The action fund has already filed against Ohio’s 6 week abortion ban and are making moves to file against other states including Alabama. I know it’s a tough time for women’s rights right now but the best way to help out is by donating money and staying involved.
Featured in this painting are plants/herbs which have been used throughout history as abortifacients, because as long as we have known how, we have been ending unwanted pregnancies. We now live in world where there are safe methods of abortion and preventing access to these services will not stop abortion, it will only stop safe abortion. Free, safe and legal access to reproductive healthcare is a human right for everyone, everywhere.
antiabortion fuckers: i’m pro-life! i just want to maximize life, i want to save kids! that’s why i support the supreme court striking down roe v. wade.
[[@else: I suppose it’s time to tell my abortion story. Of the abortion that didn’t happen, that led to me.
A lot of anti-abortion people put words & thoughts into the mouths of the unborn.
Well, I’m one that was recommended to stay unborn, who got born, and here’s what I say.
My mother found our very early in her pregnancy that there was an extremely high risk to her if she continued.
Terminating the pregnancy was floated by one of the doctors. It would have been legal due to the risk to her, but heavily stigmatized.
Her family was deeply Catholic. She was deeply Catholic.
She did not terminate. The risk became a reality.
So I’m here, and she’s not.
I’m glad to be here.
It is hard to put into words the gratitude you feel to a mother who sacrificed herself entirely for you, and I’m not going to try here.
Because I’m also very angry.
Without in any way taking away from the courage and selflessness with which she bore her situation and which she showed in all aspects of her life
I don’t believe she ever really felt like she had a true choice.
The stigma, the religious dogma, the judgement - everything she’d ever known - told her she could not save her own life.
Her parents would have, however sadly, believed she’d go to hell. Her family and friends and community would have judged her.
Everyone she’d ever loved believed it was wrong. And so she believed it was wrong.
Needlessly.
I don’t know what choice she would have made if it had been a true choice.
Maybe she would have chosen me anyway. Maybe she would have chosen to stay for her two already-existing children and for all those who loved her so deeply.
But she should have had a real, true choice.
Would I trade being here for that?
In a heartbeat. Without hesitation.
My siblings could have grown up with their mother.
My grandparents could have seen their beloved daughter live out her beautiful life, instead of mourning her every day until their deaths.
Her brothers and sisters would not still thirty years later feel the pain of losing the sistre they loved so much.
She could have continued to bring the light to the world that she had always brought, that I have heard so much about.
My father perhaps would not have descended into the grief & guilt that destroyed him, our relationship with him, the innocence of our childhoods.
Now, I think about how my young nieces & nephews will grow up without her, without the kind of grandmother I had. That pains me too.
I grew up in the devastation of her death.
I’ve watched the consequences of it play out for thirty years.
I can see what might have been differently if she’d had a true choice and it snatches my breath away, to see the suffering that didn’t have to be for the ones I love most.
I know that it is not my family, but it is also profoundly difficult to know that it is because of me.
Or to be more exact, because the world did not allow my mother her right to a true choice, and my being here is perhaps a result of that.
It’s not a burden I’d wish on anyone
I wish that I could have told her. It’s okay. Stay. Live. Be happy.
I wish I could know that she knew that that was more than ok.
Don’t I want to be here? Don’t I want to be alive, aren’t I glad to live??
Now that I’m here, sure. But had I never been, what would I have lost? Nothing.
You can’t miss what you never had. Can’t lose anything when you never existed.
There’s no pain or loss in not existing.
I didn’t exist then, to want anything. I didn’t exist to hope or wish or fear anything.
I didn’t exist back then. Not me. There was a possibility. An idea, a hope maybe. Some cells, a process in her body. Not me, any more than a sperm was me or an egg was me.
*I" didn’t become until much later. Til I was born.
My mother wouldn’t have taken anything from me or cause me any pain by living for herself, because I didn’t exist to lose anything.
There was so much pain, so much loss in losing her. Loss that will ripple down generations.
So I will say to my dying breath, as the person who only lives because she didn’t abort, that whatever she thought or chose or did not chose, she should have had a real choice to abort.
That she should have felt that aborting me was valid and good a choice as not.
Everyone should feel that, and have real access to enact that choice without obstruction or shame or question.
Whether it is their actual life at risk, or not. A forced pregnancy can be the death of many things, not just the end of ther person’s life.
Having me took away from the world everything that my mother could have given it.
Forcing someone to have a child against their will can take away what that person could be and bring if they had their choice, whether they live through the pregnancy or not.
Most of all it takes away their right - their inalienable right - to choose how they live their life in their own body.
A non-person, a hypothetical future event, the birth of someone who doesn’t exist yet, doesn’t have that right.
Other people, who claim to speak for the unborn do not have that right.
We all lose so much by it. It can cause such pain and suffering, for child-bearers, for children, for everyone.
Do not pretend to speak for the unborn.
Do not pretend to speak for the children born against their mother’s will.
Do not pretend that you care for them while you hide misogyny behind dogma.
My mother deserved her right to a real choice.
Everyone does. Unconditionally.
As the child who could have been aborted, I tell you - to oppose that right, let alone work to criminalize it, is unforgivable.
I’d like to emphasize because I didn’t say it loud enough in the original thread:
There doesn’t need to be a tragic story or a threat to life to make abortion ok.
It can be simply because you don’t want to have a child. That’s all. You still have the right to a choice.
I told my sad story because:
a) it is important to me to counter the rhetoric of anti-choice folks, that claims that if the unborn could speak they would be anti-choice
b) forced pregnancies can really f*ck up lives in many ways and that needs to be recognized.
But:
There shouldn’t have to be a tale of woe to justify bodily autonomy.
It’s a right. An absolute right. It should be protected by law.
That’s it. That’s all.
Last thingL I want this point to be heard, but I don’t particularly want to deal with blowing up on twitter.
I will probably lock my account down at some point, but I would like this still to be shared. Maybe use an unroll app and share from there if you would like to.]]
I know that the reproductive rights situation is looking pretty grim here in the States and that it’s a lot to process, but… Folks and Neighbors; I’m from Kansas.
This state is a fucking W A R Z O N E in regards to reproductive rights. And the thing that has helped us claw back lost ground has NOT been the wailing and the gnashing of teeth and the rending of garments and the quoting of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood on social media. It’s been meeting people where they’re at and putting/keeping supportive people in the local government.
Organize and vote locally in every way you can. If you’re part of outreach, meet people where they’re at. If your options are a very meh one vs an absolutely horrible one, choose the meh one every single time until your options improve.
People’s lives depend on it.
If your options are a very meh one vs an absolutely horrible one, choose the meh one every single time until your options improve
Note, I am finding these threads on the twitter feeds of ICU nurses who are now dreading the horrors that Roe falling will bring to their hospitals. This, on top of the horrors that they’ve seen and continue to see because of the pandemic. They were already exhausted and hanging by a thread.
My boyfriend and I have had this agreement since the first time we slept together. If he puts a baby in me, despite using protection, I will kill him and then it. The order of that is based entirely on logistics
Hello! For my biology class, I’m doing a project on Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (Sorry if I’m not using the most correct English, but in the end I mean abortion) and how people’s opinions change according to different scenarios, their gender, age, and nationality.
I made a quick (only five questions really) survey for me to use in my presentation to show just that, because many people still consider this topic extremely sensitive and are afraid to talk about it, when any person who can get pregnant might encounter themselves in one of the scenarios I put on the project. (Attention: some of the scenarios may be triggering and I’m going to try to tag things as correctly as possible, but the questions really had to be asked)
So, if you’d please please pleaseanswerthis survey it would mean so much to me! Again, I might not be the best at english, but I hope it’s understandable nevertheless! The data I collect willl be purely anonymous and only used for that class! (And if you could also signal boost, that would be so amazing, because this whole project is really important to me. Thank youuuuu!!!)
Thank you so much for the attention!!!
Gonna reblog again, because I really need as many people as possible, so sorryyy
For everyone who helped me, I love you so damn much, you’re an amazing bean
Hello! For my biology class, I’m doing a project on Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (Sorry if I’m not using the most correct English, but in the end I mean abortion) and how people’s opinions change according to different scenarios, their gender, age, and nationality.
I made a quick (only five questions really) survey for me to use in my presentation to show just that, because many people still consider this topic extremely sensitive and are afraid to talk about it, when any person who can get pregnant might encounter themselves in one of the scenarios I put on the project. (Attention: some of the scenarios may be triggering and I’m going to try to tag things as correctly as possible, but the questions really had to be asked)
So, if you’d please please pleaseanswerthis survey it would mean so much to me! Again, I might not be the best at english, but I hope it’s understandable nevertheless! The data I collect willl be purely anonymous and only used for that class! (And if you could also signal boost, that would be so amazing, because this whole project is really important to me. Thank youuuuu!!!)
Hey guys! I just want to address something very serious before moving onto my normal content, this is about the overturning of Roe v Wade which occurred yesterday. I have seen people discuss it and I just wanted to put my two cents in since it impacts many of us including myself.
If this makes you uncomfortable or if you simply don’t care then continue to scroll and don’t bother leaving me hate or anything because it will be deleted and you will be blocked
As someone who lives in a trigger state, stay safe!!! We have the right to vote, whether it be now or in a few years we can change this! This is stupid and needs to be changed back to being legal again.
Other cases that may be overturn are Griswold (contraceptives), Lawrence (same-sex intercourse), and Obergefell (same-sex marriage).
