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myfriendthecouch · 2 years
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Banning abortion is a violation of my First Amendment, it’s a violation of my religious freedom. I do not want Christian views imposed on me as a Jew.
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erin-hart · 2 years
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“About a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.”
There is no clearer way to say they they believe Black Lives Don’t Matter. Bill Cassidy wants you to know he only cares about the white population.
And then there’s the “for whatever reason” people of color die more in childbirth. Just sweep that right under the rug. - The reason is they don’t have access to the care they need because you defund things like planned parenthood and make access impossible.
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tarnishedtexas · 2 years
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Spotted in San Antonio, TX
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sighing-is-a-song · 2 years
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It’s been over 20 years and literally no progress has been made to lower the rate at which black women are dying from pregnancy.
“black women are undervalued. They are not monitored as carefully as white women are. When they do present with symptoms, they are often dismissed,,,It's basically a public health and human rights emergency because it's been estimated that a significant portion of these deaths could be prevented”
- Dr. Ana Langer, director of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
From 2000: “In the United States, black women are 2 to 6 times more likely to die from complications of pregnancy than white women”
From 2019: “Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's partly why the overall rate of pregnancy-related deaths has climbed over the past two decades, making the maternal mortality rate in the United States the worst in any industrialized country, according to a 2016 analysis”
From 2021: “The study also found that late maternal deaths—those occurring between six weeks and one year postpartum—were 3.5 times more likely among Black women than white women. Postpartum cardiomyopathy was the leading cause of late maternal death among all races, with Black women having a six-times-higher risk than white women.”
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Prolifers seem to be blaming doctors for not providing abortions in the cases where people have had their lives endangered and yet...it's so strange. I seem to remember doctors explaining very clearly that they needed better exceptions...here. Let me jog everyone's memories with a few key statements (sources in hyperlinked text):
From an article on May 12:
"The questions implicit in these phrases—What constitutes an “emergency”? How does one define “substantial” or “reasonable”?—are left unanswered. “These laws presume a certainty that doesn’t exist in medicine,” Cara Heuser, a maternal-fetal-medicine physician in Salt Lake City, said. “How ‘life-threatening’ the situation has to be—I don’t know what that means.”"
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"Nikki Zite is an ob-gyn in Knoxville, where an arsonist burned down the local Planned Parenthood clinic on New Year’s Eve. Zite told me about one of her patients, a mother who had a terminal health condition and who elected to have an abortion. “The pregnancy was not going to kill her, but it would accelerate her death,” Zite said. “She and her husband and her physician reached out to me because she had decided that she did not want to bring a child into the world when she was going to die shortly, and also because she wanted to be around as long as possible for her current children.” It is difficult to imagine even a hard-line pro-lifer quibbling with a dying mother’s wishes for herself and her family. Yet her dilemma may not count as a “medical emergency” under Tennessee’s trigger ban.
Likewise, most abortion bans do not make exceptions for catastrophic fetal anomalies that cannot be detected until late in pregnancy, such as anencephaly and certain cardiac and renal malformations. Depending on the situation, these are pregnancy losses by another name. Zahedi, who for a time was one of only a handful of providers nationwide who performs later abortions, said that state legislators “don’t understand the nuances of situations in which a fetus has major anomalies that are not consistent with life. How long do we wait? Do you have to carry the pregnancy to term?” In these cases, she went on, patients are “taking a risk to their life, to continue a pregnancy to term or to stillbirth, with the knowledge that they won’t go home with a live child at the end of the day.”
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From an article on May 26:
"Maria Phillis, an obstetrician/gynecologist, told the Washington Post, “There’s not one button that says, ‘This one thing is threatening a woman’s life.’ A lot of it is a slow decline, and at what point is a physician empowered to say that there is an emergency?”"
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Dr. Lisa Harris in Michigan told NPR some common complications such as heart disease have a 20-30% chance of causing death during pregnancy.“
Is that enough of a chance [of death] or does it have to be more? I hate to even put it like that,” said Harris, who was a guest on Michigan Radio’s Stateside. “But is that enough of a chance of dying that that person would qualify under Michigan’s ban for a lifesaving abortion? Or would their risk of dying need to be 50% or 100%? And so those kinds of things are very unclear.”
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So prolifers, doctors aren't to blame. You are. They warned you, and you ignored them. If you don't remember them speaking out, why not? Why don't you?
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wrathofthestag · 2 years
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Not a Single Day
I was 20 when I found myself pregnant.  I was also in an abusive relationship.  
Ralph* was the cool guy in high school that I thought could never be interested in me.  We ran into each other after we graduated and he was charming, he was a good dancer, popular, and he was interested in me.  My ex-boyfriend at the time had said, “Don’t date him. Trust me on this one.” I thought my ex was just jealous, so I ignored him.
Ralph and I started dating and it was all great in the beginning.  I was going to parties with all the cool kids from high school---the group I wish I could have hung out with back then---and I was having fun. Until it started to change.
First Ralph began to tell me that he hated how I dressed.  I was too pretty to be dressing like that.  Then he didn’t like my music, my books, my friends in college.  
“You’re really immature, you know?” he once said to me.
Soon, he began to snap whenever I’d contradict him; if I had friends he didn’t know; if I had male friends.  Why was I with him?  Who can say?  I was 20 and dumb.  I tried once to break up with him, but it didn’t go well.  The belittling continued.  The verbal abuse increased. 
So when I discovered I was pregnant, I wanted to die. I had used protection.  What happened? My mother, who was a very strict Latina mom, always said if I was ever pregnant she would kick me out.  So, I couldn’t turn to her.  And what was I going to do?  Live with Ralph? No.
So I went to my local Planned Parenthood and had an abortion. The people at PP were very kind and compassionate and didn’t judge me.  I had judged myself enough for everyone.  Later that day, with my abortion that only Ralph and my best friend knew about, I slept on the couch after crying myself to sleep. I cried because I was tired, scared, but mostly relieved. I knew it had been the right decision.
A few days later, Ralph shouted at me that I was a murderer and that I hadn’t taken him into account. He kicked my car and screamed. Not long after, he punched me in the face for changing the radio station. It was the first time that he had been physically abusive. I told my family I had been mugged because I felt ashamed.  I felt ashamed that I had allowed that to happen to me.  I had had enough.
Without Roe v. Wade, I wouldn’t have been able to have an abortion. I wasn’t ready to become a mother, and I certainly did not want to have children with Ralph.  There has yet to be a day where I wake up and think, “Maybe I shouldn’t have?”  I have always been pro-choice and believed in a person’s right to choose, even before my abortion. That abortion saved me from being tied to an abusive, controlling prick of a human being for the rest of my life.  I don’t regret that abortion for a single moment.  Not a single day. Not one. 
(*Names have not been changed because fuck him. And for those who say that maybe he changed?  No, he didn’t.  Years later, he messaged me on FB and when I said I wasn’t interested in talking to him, he blew up and called me names.)
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awnerd · 2 years
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A comprehensive list of body parts and fluids that the Government CANNOT COMPEL you to make available to another entity, even if withholding it will lead to the death of that entity:
Kidney
Lung
Portion of Liver
Portion of Pancrease
Portion of Intestine
Whole Blood, Red blood cells, White blood cells, Platelets, Plasma
Sperm, Semen
Bone Marrow (cancer treatment)
Stem cells (cancer treatment)
A comprehensive list of body parts that the Government WILL SOON COMPEL you to make available to another entity, even if doing so might lead to your own death:
Uterus
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happinessbunny · 1 year
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Here’s the HQ of the organization that’s helping to push through the ban on the abortion pill!!
Just in case anyone would like to personally thank them for all of their hard work, you know? 🥰
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unwashedace · 2 years
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I have restocked these for pre-order in my Big Cartel Shop.  They will be in hand by the end of July. 
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myfriendthecouch · 2 years
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biblioklept · 2 years
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Untitled 5 (from the Abortion Pastels) -- Paula Rego
Untitled 5 (from the Abortion Pastels) — Paula Rego
Untitled No. 5 (from the Abortion Pastels), 1998 by Paula Rego (1935-2022) Center for Reproductive Rights NARAL Pro-Choice America National Abortion Federation  National Network of Abortion Funds National Organization for Women Planned Parenthood Refuse & Resist! More
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erin-hart · 2 years
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~Don’t horde. Maybe keep 2-3 on hand to give to someone who may need it. It has a long shelf life, but it does expire so don’t stock pile.
~Plan B is a contraceptive, not an abortive. But may give you some control over your situation.
~Be aware there are weight restrictions for plan B as it won’t work on larger bodies and doubling doses doesn’t help.
~Support planned parenthood and vote.
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sighing-is-a-song · 2 years
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Every single last bit of this!!!!!
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The sun knows my name. The trees hear my voice. The wind carries my hopes. The stars dry my tears, and the moon listens to my cries. The rain washes away the pain I feel. I never asked for these things, and I never would in fear of inconveniencing those who have no time. The day we asked those who swore to listen we got nothing. We fought for our lives in every way. It didn't matter if we were brown , black, woman, man, trans, queer, or autistic. We fought to breathe. We fought and won small battles. And when we saw the sun. When we began to speak the ones that were given a voice in our darkest days, the ones we thought were finally silent yelled. They shouted for glory, and they shouted so that our music was not heard. They look at what we had accomplished and they say "no more." They threaten to strip what we died to accomplish, and what we lived to see. We bang,and thrash, and shout for justice; but they stay firm. They spit on the graves of our own, and ensure the downfall of those to come. And the lucky few are not fortunate for long. We are made to grow up, and sober up because the worst is yet to come and we know it. The World tries to reason with them, but otherwise lay in silence. Awaiting the return of the booming voices. The ones who fought before are angry. They died for nothing and they are tired. We too are tired. We are young and we are too tired for a child. The poets write but no one reads. The leaders try to lead but there are many fueled by rebellion. The elders teach and share what they learned. The young grow old in minutes. Entertainers try to lift spirits and we listen to distract from the beating of our hearts that yell "DO SOMETHING" with each breath. The sun burns bright and burns the faces it knows. The wind carries the memory of those who did not have to die. The stars no longer burn bright enough to stop us from weeping, and the moon cannot hear us after we have broken. And I pose a question.
If one million lives are taken for two bundles of nerves to one day suffer the worst possible pain. Is it worth it? Shouldn't life be better for the unlucky majority that live?
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