Despite what Pro-Lifers say…

arguing-about-abortions:

jordanashtsmith:

arguing-about-abortions:

Abortion IS taking responsibility. It is a safe and legal way to deal with an unintended pregnancy. That is not irresponsible. 

abortion is NOT taking responsibility what-so-ever.  in the first place, getting pregnant by accident is an irresponsible, very stupid move.  maybe one should just wait to have sex after marriage, then no one would have this problem.  God put every.single.human on this earth for a PURPOSE. and trust me, being aborted was no one’s purpose.  the fact that you think abortion is OK and RESPONSIBLE makes me SICK. when a baby is aborted, you can literally see the little fingers, and arms, legs, head, lungs, and everything already taking form of a little person.  he or she already has a heart beat and a pulse and feelings.  abortion is murder, there is no way its not.  an unborn baby is STILL A BABY. STILL A PERSON. A HUMAN. what if you were aborted? hm. the only way i think abortion would ever be ok is if one was raped, or if a girl got pregnant from a family member, in which case the baby would be severely messed up.  every one deserves a chance, even a little fetus that people had plans to kill.  once a baby is aborted, the doctors literally tear it into small pieces and put it in a TRASH CAN, like its a worthless piece of crap.  it is not fair, and the poor baby has no say in it… it just happens.  maybe you should think more into this.  im sorry for sounding so rude but this just pissed me off to no end.     abortion is a very strong, intense subject for me.  hopefully God will speak to you. enjoy this picture of a baby that was aborted while youre at it. this couldve been you. 

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An excellent takedown. The whole “abortion is MURDER!! …but it’s okay if it’s rape or incest” thing always gets me. Why are those two instances suddenly not murder? In the case of incest, it’s because “the baby would be severely messed up,” according to this asshole. So… it’s suddenly okay to murder people (according to your logic) if they would have had a disability? Yeah, that’s some real respect for human life you got there. *eyeroll*

sunshineuncertaintyprinciple: ladylarrie: sunshineuncertaintyprinciple: provoice: ladylarrie: I mean, honestly. The baby can’t thank you if he or she is dead. Let’s get real. Planned Parenthood does many other helpful services that are not abortion. A lot of PP’s don’t even offer abortions. The prenatal care they offer is wonderful and affordable. Let’s get real. I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the 97% of Planned Parenthood’s services that are not abortion. Or the >200,000 abortions they prevent every year. Your time would be better spent taking a class on not sucking at Photoshop, OP. Congratulations on finding a nice piece of propaganda to copy-paste, OP! (And much congratulations to whichever anti-choicer scrounged up a calculator and found the divide key!) I don’t know if you’re just a superhuman with no medical needs whatsoever, but sometimes people need to go to the doctor for multiple things, over multiple visits in one year. We get sick. We run out of prescription refills. Unexpected things happen. I personally have been to Planned Parenthood multiple times in the last year- for my annual Pap/birth control appointment, and then on several other occasions to be treated for urinary tract infections. Yes, I am only one person, but Planned Parenthood has helped me multiple times. They have rendered multiple services. They have spent multiple appointment slots, multiple laboratory tests, multiple sliding scale fees because I’m a poor grad student, and multiple hours of the doctors’/nurses’/lab techs’/receptionists’ time on me. They are right to report each instance of serving me as an individual service rendered. The fact that my urinary tract is a terrible hotbed of recurring infection is irrelevant. So when you (or really, the author of this image, because you have yet to demonstrate any semblance of independent thought) imply that Planned Parenthood is somehow dishonest by reporting their services rendered as individual services rendered, you are only serving to prove that you have no knowledge of our medical care system. For any action X that a PP healthcare provider performs on a patient, (whether that be an STI test, Pap smear, birth control consultation, IUD insertion, or administering antibiotics for someone’s 10th UTI that year), only 3 in 100 of those Xs will be an abortion. It doesn’t matter if one patient needs ten things in one visit, those ten things are still separate services that PP works hard and depletes resources to provide. As for your allegations about the money Planned Parenthood makes on abortion: No fucking shit. In the United States, the Hyde Amendment blocks all federal Medicaid programs from covering abortion services. The majority of states also block state Medicaid coverage of abortions. Some states have also passed bans on using private insurance coverage for abortion, and most insurance plans don’t cover elective abortion anyway. Every last person who walks into Planned Parenthood for an abortion must find a way to finance it. PP cannot and does not subsidize abortion care  Compare this to contraception, STI testing/treatment, and cancer screenings, all of which are heavily subsidized by local and federal programs such as Title X. A huge number of people who walk into Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services receive their care at a reduced (or nonexistent) fee, sometimes at a loss by PP. But don’t take my word for it, let’s actually look at the numbers: In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood made a total of $320.1 million from its health clinics. This is the money paid by patients to PP for services rendered and accounts for 36% of PP’s total revenue that year. That’s only one-third of the money PP needs to stay in business. It’s not exactly a cash cow. In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood’s operating budget exceeded $1 billion. And 46% of their revenue came from government services, grants, and reimbursements. But none of that almost half of PP’s income can be used on abortions. None. So yes, people who want abortions from PP have to pay for them. That’s now healthcare works in this country, especially when private and public insurance programs are banned from paying for a certain service. It costs money to keep a health clinic running. Planned Parenthood must pay its doctors, nurses, lab staff, receptionists, and building maintenance employees. Every procedure, from Pap smears to UTI urinalysis, requires expensive medical equipment, some of which must be replaced for every patient. And, thanks to the “pro-life” movement, Planned Parenthood must pay for security measures above and beyond anything required for any other health clinic. My local Planned Parenthood is equipped with security guards, bulletproof glass, and a system of doors that everyone must be buzzed through- and this PP doesn’t even provide abortions. My apologies, the terrorist nature of the anti-choice movement got me a little derailed. If you’ll return your attention to the 2009-2010 annual report once more, I’d just like to point out that PP spends 68% of its money on medical services, another 15% on non-medical program services (mostly comprehensive sexual education and outreach), and 1% on international family planning. This is an organization that spends 84% on dedicated program services, earning it four stars from CharityNavigator.org. And just in case you still think Planned Parenthood is making billions and billions of dollars (mua ha ha ha) off its patients: in 2009-2010, PP earned $18 million in excess of its >$1 billion (that’s $1029 million) operating expenses. That’s like if you made a budget of $100, and in the end you had $1.70 extra. No one is getting rich off abortions. And as for your minor hissy fit over “90% of pregnant people get abortions at PP!!!!!11” - you’re looking at the wrong numbers. One of PP’s most crucial services to pregnant people are free or low-cost pregnancy tests administered by medical professionals. In 2009, PP administered over one million of these. An official pregnancy test (blood or urine) is what millions of low-income individuals need to get onto Medicaid and other forms of social assistance that they will need to have and raise their child. Once an individual has a Planned Parenthood doctor’s certification that they are pregnant, they can use their Medicaid coverage to see a permanent OB/GYN in a private practice. They may not come back to Planned Parenthood over the course of their pregnancy, but Planned Parenthood still made it possible for them to continue their pregnancy and raise their child. And no, religiously motivated “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” cannot provide the same service, because while they do offer drugstore urine stick pregnancy tests, they are not staffed with medical professionals and cannot legally certify a pregnancy. So when you claim that 90% of pregnant people at PP want abortions, you are ignoring the millions of people who go to PP suspecting they are pregnant and who receive help in getting prenatal care from outside doctors. And you are ignoring the people who find out they aren’t pregnant, and then receive the help and contraception they need to make sure they never have an unwanted pregnancy.  Planned Parenthood is a multifaceted organization that helps literally millions of people with millions of different life situations. Sit down and leave the math to the professionals.
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sunshineuncertaintyprinciple: ladylarrie: sunshineuncertaintyprinciple: provoice: ladylarrie: I mean, honestly. The baby can’t thank you if he or she is dead. Let’s get real. Planned Parenthood does many other helpful services that are not abortion. A lot of PP’s don’t even offer abortions. The prenatal care they offer is wonderful and affordable. Let’s get real. I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the 97% of Planned Parenthood’s services that are not abortion. Or the >200,000 abortions they prevent every year. Your time would be better spent taking a class on not sucking at Photoshop, OP. Congratulations on finding a nice piece of propaganda to copy-paste, OP! (And much congratulations to whichever anti-choicer scrounged up a calculator and found the divide key!) I don’t know if you’re just a superhuman with no medical needs whatsoever, but sometimes people need to go to the doctor for multiple things, over multiple visits in one year. We get sick. We run out of prescription refills. Unexpected things happen. I personally have been to Planned Parenthood multiple times in the last year- for my annual Pap/birth control appointment, and then on several other occasions to be treated for urinary tract infections. Yes, I am only one person, but Planned Parenthood has helped me multiple times. They have rendered multiple services. They have spent multiple appointment slots, multiple laboratory tests, multiple sliding scale fees because I’m a poor grad student, and multiple hours of the doctors’/nurses’/lab techs’/receptionists’ time on me. They are right to report each instance of serving me as an individual service rendered. The fact that my urinary tract is a terrible hotbed of recurring infection is irrelevant. So when you (or really, the author of this image, because you have yet to demonstrate any semblance of independent thought) imply that Planned Parenthood is somehow dishonest by reporting their services rendered as individual services rendered, you are only serving to prove that you have no knowledge of our medical care system. For any action X that a PP healthcare provider performs on a patient, (whether that be an STI test, Pap smear, birth control consultation, IUD insertion, or administering antibiotics for someone’s 10th UTI that year), only 3 in 100 of those Xs will be an abortion. It doesn’t matter if one patient needs ten things in one visit, those ten things are still separate services that PP works hard and depletes resources to provide. As for your allegations about the money Planned Parenthood makes on abortion: No fucking shit. In the United States, the Hyde Amendment blocks all federal Medicaid programs from covering abortion services. The majority of states also block state Medicaid coverage of abortions. Some states have also passed bans on using private insurance coverage for abortion, and most insurance plans don’t cover elective abortion anyway. Every last person who walks into Planned Parenthood for an abortion must find a way to finance it. PP cannot and does not subsidize abortion care  Compare this to contraception, STI testing/treatment, and cancer screenings, all of which are heavily subsidized by local and federal programs such as Title X. A huge number of people who walk into Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services receive their care at a reduced (or nonexistent) fee, sometimes at a loss by PP. But don’t take my word for it, let’s actually look at the numbers: In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood made a total of $320.1 million from its health clinics. This is the money paid by patients to PP for services rendered and accounts for 36% of PP’s total revenue that year. That’s only one-third of the money PP needs to stay in business. It’s not exactly a cash cow. In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood’s operating budget exceeded $1 billion. And 46% of their revenue came from government services, grants, and reimbursements. But none of that almost half of PP’s income can be used on abortions. None. So yes, people who want abortions from PP have to pay for them. That’s now healthcare works in this country, especially when private and public insurance programs are banned from paying for a certain service. It costs money to keep a health clinic running. Planned Parenthood must pay its doctors, nurses, lab staff, receptionists, and building maintenance employees. Every procedure, from Pap smears to UTI urinalysis, requires expensive medical equipment, some of which must be replaced for every patient. And, thanks to the “pro-life” movement, Planned Parenthood must pay for security measures above and beyond anything required for any other health clinic. My local Planned Parenthood is equipped with security guards, bulletproof glass, and a system of doors that everyone must be buzzed through- and this PP doesn’t even provide abortions. My apologies, the terrorist nature of the anti-choice movement got me a little derailed. If you’ll return your attention to the 2009-2010 annual report once more, I’d just like to point out that PP spends 68% of its money on medical services, another 15% on non-medical program services (mostly comprehensive sexual education and outreach), and 1% on international family planning. This is an organization that spends 84% on dedicated program services, earning it four stars from CharityNavigator.org. And just in case you still think Planned Parenthood is making billions and billions of dollars (mua ha ha ha) off its patients: in 2009-2010, PP earned $18 million in excess of its >$1 billion (that’s $1029 million) operating expenses. That’s like if you made a budget of $100, and in the end you had $1.70 extra. No one is getting rich off abortions. And as for your minor hissy fit over “90% of pregnant people get abortions at PP!!!!!11” - you’re looking at the wrong numbers. One of PP’s most crucial services to pregnant people are free or low-cost pregnancy tests administered by medical professionals. In 2009, PP administered over one million of these. An official pregnancy test (blood or urine) is what millions of low-income individuals need to get onto Medicaid and other forms of social assistance that they will need to have and raise their child. Once an individual has a Planned Parenthood doctor’s certification that they are pregnant, they can use their Medicaid coverage to see a permanent OB/GYN in a private practice. They may not come back to Planned Parenthood over the course of their pregnancy, but Planned Parenthood still made it possible for them to continue their pregnancy and raise their child. And no, religiously motivated “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” cannot provide the same service, because while they do offer drugstore urine stick pregnancy tests, they are not staffed with medical professionals and cannot legally certify a pregnancy. So when you claim that 90% of pregnant people at PP want abortions, you are ignoring the millions of people who go to PP suspecting they are pregnant and who receive help in getting prenatal care from outside doctors. And you are ignoring the people who find out they aren’t pregnant, and then receive the help and contraception they need to make sure they never have an unwanted pregnancy.  Planned Parenthood is a multifaceted organization that helps literally millions of people with millions of different life situations. Sit down and leave the math to the professionals.
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sunshineuncertaintyprinciple:

ladylarrie:

sunshineuncertaintyprinciple:

provoice:

ladylarrie:

I mean, honestly. The baby can’t thank you if he or she is dead. Let’s get real.

Planned Parenthood does many other helpful services that are not abortion. A lot of PP’s don’t even offer abortions. The prenatal care they offer is wonderful and affordable. Let’s get real.

I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the 97% of Planned Parenthood’s services that are not abortion. Or the >200,000 abortions they prevent every year.

Your time would be better spent taking a class on not sucking at Photoshop, OP.

Congratulations on finding a nice piece of propaganda to copy-paste, OP! (And much congratulations to whichever anti-choicer scrounged up a calculator and found the divide key!)

I don’t know if you’re just a superhuman with no medical needs whatsoever, but sometimes people need to go to the doctor for multiple things, over multiple visits in one year. We get sick. We run out of prescription refills. Unexpected things happen.

I personally have been to Planned Parenthood multiple times in the last year- for my annual Pap/birth control appointment, and then on several other occasions to be treated for urinary tract infections.

Yes, I am only one person, but Planned Parenthood has helped me multiple times. They have rendered multiple services. They have spent multiple appointment slots, multiple laboratory tests, multiple sliding scale fees because I’m a poor grad student, and multiple hours of the doctors’/nurses’/lab techs’/receptionists’ time on me. They are right to report each instance of serving me as an individual service rendered. The fact that my urinary tract is a terrible hotbed of recurring infection is irrelevant.

So when you (or really, the author of this image, because you have yet to demonstrate any semblance of independent thought) imply that Planned Parenthood is somehow dishonest by reporting their services rendered as individual services rendered, you are only serving to prove that you have no knowledge of our medical care system.

For any action X that a PP healthcare provider performs on a patient, (whether that be an STI test, Pap smear, birth control consultation, IUD insertion, or administering antibiotics for someone’s 10th UTI that year), only 3 in 100 of those Xs will be an abortion. It doesn’t matter if one patient needs ten things in one visit, those ten things are still separate services that PP works hard and depletes resources to provide.

As for your allegations about the money Planned Parenthood makes on abortion: No fucking shit.

In the United States, the Hyde Amendment blocks all federal Medicaid programs from covering abortion services. The majority of states also block state Medicaid coverage of abortions. Some states have also passed bans on using private insurance coverage for abortion, and most insurance plans don’t cover elective abortion anyway. Every last person who walks into Planned Parenthood for an abortion must find a way to finance it. PP cannot and does not subsidize abortion care 

Compare this to contraception, STI testing/treatment, and cancer screenings, all of which are heavily subsidized by local and federal programs such as Title X. A huge number of people who walk into Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services receive their care at a reduced (or nonexistent) fee, sometimes at a loss by PP.

But don’t take my word for it, let’s actually look at the numbers:

In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood made a total of $320.1 million from its health clinics. This is the money paid by patients to PP for services rendered and accounts for 36% of PP’s total revenue that year.

That’s only one-third of the money PP needs to stay in business. It’s not exactly a cash cow.

In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood’s operating budget exceeded $1 billion. And 46% of their revenue came from government services, grants, and reimbursements.

But none of that almost half of PP’s income can be used on abortions. None.

So yes, people who want abortions from PP have to pay for them. That’s now healthcare works in this country, especially when private and public insurance programs are banned from paying for a certain service.

It costs money to keep a health clinic running. Planned Parenthood must pay its doctors, nurses, lab staff, receptionists, and building maintenance employees. Every procedure, from Pap smears to UTI urinalysis, requires expensive medical equipment, some of which must be replaced for every patient.

And, thanks to the “pro-life” movement, Planned Parenthood must pay for security measures above and beyond anything required for any other health clinic. My local Planned Parenthood is equipped with security guards, bulletproof glass, and a system of doors that everyone must be buzzed through- and this PP doesn’t even provide abortions.

My apologies, the terrorist nature of the anti-choice movement got me a little derailed. If you’ll return your attention to the 2009-2010 annual report once more, I’d just like to point out that PP spends 68% of its money on medical services, another 15% on non-medical program services (mostly comprehensive sexual education and outreach), and 1% on international family planning. This is an organization that spends 84% on dedicated program services, earning it four stars from CharityNavigator.org.

And just in case you still think Planned Parenthood is making billions and billions of dollars (mua ha ha ha) off its patients: in 2009-2010, PP earned $18 million in excess of its >$1 billion (that’s $1029 million) operating expenses. That’s like if you made a budget of $100, and in the end you had $1.70 extra. No one is getting rich off abortions.

And as for your minor hissy fit over “90% of pregnant people get abortions at PP!!!!!11” - you’re looking at the wrong numbers.

One of PP’s most crucial services to pregnant people are free or low-cost pregnancy tests administered by medical professionals. In 2009, PP administered over one million of these. An official pregnancy test (blood or urine) is what millions of low-income individuals need to get onto Medicaid and other forms of social assistance that they will need to have and raise their child.

Once an individual has a Planned Parenthood doctor’s certification that they are pregnant, they can use their Medicaid coverage to see a permanent OB/GYN in a private practice. They may not come back to Planned Parenthood over the course of their pregnancy, but Planned Parenthood still made it possible for them to continue their pregnancy and raise their child.

And no, religiously motivated “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” cannot provide the same service, because while they do offer drugstore urine stick pregnancy tests, they are not staffed with medical professionals and cannot legally certify a pregnancy.

So when you claim that 90% of pregnant people at PP want abortions, you are ignoring the millions of people who go to PP suspecting they are pregnant and who receive help in getting prenatal care from outside doctors. And you are ignoring the people who find out they aren’t pregnant, and then receive the help and contraception they need to make sure they never have an unwanted pregnancy. 

Planned Parenthood is a multifaceted organization that helps literally millions of people with millions of different life situations. Sit down and leave the math to the professionals.

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Source: ladylarrie

I’m not ‘pro-abortion,’ that’s the very one clear thing I want you to understand. Abortion is not the right answer for every pregnancy. And it’s not the right answer for every flawed pregnancy, and it’s not the right answer for every rape and incest patient. But when the patient knows it’s the right answer for her, then I want to be here for her.
Dr. Leroy Carhart, an abortion provider based in Wichita, Kansas. Listen to the CNN profile of him here. (via rhrealitycheck)

dean-or-alive:

Anti-abortion protesters in my town with signs like:

“Hoot if you want to keep abortion oot”
“Kill the disease, not the baby”
“The current government are the “abortion party”“

They have kids with them, kids ranging from newborn age to around 8 years old. Most of whom probably don’t even know why they’re there.

During my conversation with one abortion protester I mentioned the word “zygote” and he looked confused and asked what it was. After explaining what a “zygote” is to an abortion protester I started to think. So I asked him a few questions, for example, “How many months on average is a woman pregnant for?” “During what day of her menstrual cycle is it most likely that a woman will get pregnant?” and other questions about a women’s reproductive systems. Many of the other men protesting had gathered round me at this time and none of them could give a right answer to any of the questions I asked and needless to say they were embarrassed. 
I was shocked that these men who were protesting abortion had no knowledge on pregnancy or woman at all. I was actually disgusted.
During their ashamed silence of not knowing anything about women I said “How is it right for you to tell me what to do with my body when you know nothing about it” and I broke through the circle of idiots and strutted home

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Also you may have noticed I said he and him a lot in this post. That is because out of about 30 protesters there were 2 women. Which leads me to my next point which I mentioned to them. No one, especially no man,should be able to make the decision for a woman whether she can have an abortion or not. Not me, not them, not 100 men sitting in Dáil Eireann, no one except the woman herself.

Tl;dr :image

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Source: dean-or-alive

Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.

Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.

Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.

Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.

Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.

Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!

Worry About Your Own Uterus:   (via veruca-assault)

“Worry about your own uterus” wise  wise words.

(via triplash)

And if you point out “Okay, if the consequences of my birth control failure/mistake/coerced unprotected sex is pregnancy, I am dealing with it by having an abortion” they have no real response. Try it, and you’ll immediately see an abrupt shift in topic, they won’t address that one head on because they can’t. Because when they say “deal with the consequences” what they really mean is “you will continue this pregnancy and give birth against your will and take it when we shame you as a slutty whore for being pregnant too young/outside of marriage/by a different man than fathered your other child(ren) or as a stupid welfare queen sucking up our money if you’re poor if you choose to keep and raise your child yourself.” There is no winning with people who view pregnancy as a “just consequence” - by which they mean punishment - for people who have sex when they do not wish to have a child.

(via amaditalks)

(via androboiinprogress)

Dear Politicians: There Is No Such Thing As a “Recreational Abortion”

drst:

vochoice:

When it comes to fighting for the right for women to decide when they want to remain pregnant, our opponents often try to frame the debate as one of fickle pregnant women aborting for frivolous reasons. But it’s even more harmful when our allies fall into the same rhetorical trap.

Discussing the likelihood that Iowa Republicans will once more come after the state’s Medicaid coverage of abortions in the cases of rape, incest, and the life of the pregnant person, Iowa Democrat Jack Hatch tells the Associated Press that the Republicans will be unsuccessful, noting that these are “medically-needed” abortions versus “recreational abortions.”

Recreational abortions?

As someone who has had a dilation and curettage (D&C), I can firmly state that whatever the circumstances, it was by no means “fun,” a term most people would be inclined to associate with “recreational activities.” Recreational activities are done in your spare time. They are hobbies. They are enjoyable. They are none of the things that would be associated with ending a pregnancy, and to use the term implies a flippant nature to a woman’s life decisions and we already have enough of that from  anti-choice politicians… we don’t need more from those supposedly supporting us.

Abortions are the result of a decision to terminate a pregnancy after weighing one’s life circumstance and deciding, whether because of financial circumstances, current family situation, health concerns, or future aspirations, that a specific pregnancy is untenable and that the benefits of ending the pregnancy far outweigh those of bearing a child. It doesn’t matter whether this is because of medical issues, financial issues, sexual assault, or other personal reasons, the “necessary” versus “recreational” mentality is no more valid than the “good abortion/bad abortion” juxtaposition.

The choice to terminate is not a frivolous decision. Abortions are not “recreational” regardless of the reason behind them. We hope that our allies understand that and support the women who do so, for whatever reason they choose.

They absolutely believe this, though. I have no doubt that all the Republicans and the forced birthers honestly and completely believe that women have abortions as casually as they have pedicures.

(via rabbleprochoice)

Source: vochoice

Two years ago, South Dakota legislators passed a new law designed to deter women from seeking abortions. Under the law, a woman must consult with her doctor, then visit an anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy center,” and then wait 72 hours before she can actually have an abortion. Now legislators want to raise the barrier to accessing an abortion even higher by disqualifying weekends and holidays from the waiting period.

House Bill 1237, sponsored by Republican Jon Hansen, would amend the waiting period rule to add the line, “No Saturday, Sunday, federal holiday, or state holiday may be included or counted in the calculation of the seventy-two hour minimum time period between the initial physician consultation and assessment and the time of the scheduled abortion procedure.” It has 14 co-sponsors in the house and five in the state senate.

Apparently South Dakota lawmakers believe that a woman will be unable to contemplate her abortion adequately unless she’s doing it on a weekday.

If the bill passes, it would mean a woman who goes in for her initial consultation for an abortion on a Wednesday actually has to wait five days before she can have the abortion (Or six, if she happens to come in before a long weekend.) This is no small barrier for many women, especially in South Dakota. The state has just one abortion clinic, in Sioux Falls, and a doctor that flies in from out of state to provide services. Women drive up to six hours each direction to reach that clinic. The state also requires the doctor to read patients a prescribed script claiming that abortion will put them at an increased risk of suicide (a claim not backed by medical evidence).

Mother Jones, “South Dakota Bill Implies Women Can’t Think on Weekends” (via inothernews)

! I’d have to wait business days now!? Am I getting my abortions done at the goddamn post office!? Wtf!?

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Incomprehensible and totally unacceptable. I’d love to see statistics on how many pregnant people actually decide against the abortion after 24-72 hours. Most stories I’ve heard went like this: “They told me I had to wait to schedule my abortion, so I waited, then i scheduled it, then I had it.”

(via stfuconservatives)

Delaying tactics like these just serve to push abortions closer to the period at which they are harder to obtain, i.e. “late-term” abortions.

(via rabbleprochoice)

Source: inothernews

STFU, Conservatives: becauseiamawoman: When evangelicals were pro-choice – CNN Belief Blog...

becauseiamawoman:

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.

(via rabbleprochoice)

Source: sarahlee310

They found that a year after the event, the women who were turned away from an abortion were more likely to rely on government assistance, more likely to be living beneath the poverty line, and less likely to have a full-time job than the women in the study who had obtained abortions. They also registered more anxiety a week after they were denied an abortion and reported more stress a year out. They were no more or less likely to be depressed. And women who gave birth suffered from more serious health complications—from hemorrhaging to a fractured pelvis—than the women who aborted, even later in their pregnancies.

Happy home lives also failed to materialize. The women who were turned away were more than twice as likely to be a victim of domestic violence as those who were able to abort. The researchers found that “a year after being denied an abortion, 7 percent reported an incident of domestic violence in the last six months,” compared to 3 percent of the women who received abortions. The researchers concluded that this “wasn’t because the turnaways were more likely to get into abusive relationships,” but that “getting abortions allowed women to get out of such relationships more easily.” Carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term helped abusive men stay in these women’s lives, but it didn’t encourage delinquent new dads to stick around: The researchers found that “men were no more likely to live with a turnaway who’d borne their children than they were to live with a woman who had an abortion.”

The abortion debate often focuses on a woman’s health during those first nine months. This study shows that an unwanted pregnancy can have long-lasting effects on a woman’s body and well-being far after she carries it to term.

Amanda Hess writing at Slate about ANSIRH’s Turnaway Study. For more, io9’s write up and the Global Turnaway Study’s Facebook page.

[NB: More people than just cis women need and want access to abortion care.]

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so important. Abortion access is related to violence prevention, mental health, and economic justice. This is why we need to remember to have an intersectional approach and remember when we deny people the right to control over their bodies, the consequences in their lives reverberate far and wide.

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keepyourbsoutofmyuterus: Her name was Savita Halappanavar. She was 31. She was a dentist. Her husband was Praveen Halappanavar, 34, an engineer at Boston Scientific. She was 17 weeks pregnant in Galway, Ireland. She presented with back pain at University Hospital Galway on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying. She asked several times over a three-day period that her pregnancy be terminated. This was refused because the foetal heartbeat was still present and the doctors told her, “this is a Catholic country”. She spent a further 2½ days “in agony” until the foetal heartbeat stopped. She died of septicaemia a few days later. Mr Halappanavar took his wife’s body home on Thursday, November 1st, where she was cremated and laid to rest on November 3rd. There  are now two investigations are under way into her death. [This info via this link. For more.] _________________________________ According to the World Health Organization, 26.1 million people seek unsafe abortions every year in the world because they do not have access to safe ones. 47,000 die from those unsafe abortions. I have been unable to find a stat of how many people, like Savita Halappanavar, die because they are denied abortion as a medical option. _________________________________ Her name was Savita Halappanavar. So many people will die in situations similar to hers and we will never know their names. This is unacceptable. It is morally bankrupt. It is the definition of tragic.  Her name was Savita Halappanavar.
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keepyourbsoutofmyuterus:

Her name was Savita Halappanavar.

She was 31.

She was a dentist.

Her husband was Praveen Halappanavar, 34, an engineer at Boston Scientific.

She was 17 weeks pregnant in Galway, Ireland.

She presented with back pain at University Hospital Galway on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying.

She asked several times over a three-day period that her pregnancy be terminated.

This was refused because the foetal heartbeat was still present and the doctors told her, “this is a Catholic country”.

She spent a further 2½ days “in agony” until the foetal heartbeat stopped.

She died of septicaemia a few days later.

Mr Halappanavar took his wife’s body home on Thursday, November 1st, where she was cremated and laid to rest on November 3rd.

There  are now two investigations are under way into her death.

[This info via this link. For more.]

_________________________________

According to the World Health Organization, 26.1 million people seek unsafe abortions every year in the world because they do not have access to safe ones. 47,000 die from those unsafe abortions.

I have been unable to find a stat of how many people, like Savita Halappanavar, die because they are denied abortion as a medical option.

_________________________________

Her name was Savita Halappanavar.

So many people will die in situations similar to hers and we will never know their names.

This is unacceptable. It is morally bankrupt. It is the definition of tragic. 

Her name was Savita Halappanavar.

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