Saw two strongly pro-choice blogs lamenting a case of infanticide from history because the baby was born irregular.

"so sad"

I don't get it. If the mom had had access to abortion, she'd have gotten one. The culture was Like That. How is infanticide of a presumably -disabled child sad when the abortion of disabled children isn't?

I just don't think a story that begins with the mysterious disappearance and later death of a girl, and that repeatedly asks us "What is the life of one boy against a kingdom?" and answers "Everything." would end by answering "What is Lyanna's death against Azor Ahai reborn?" with "Ehh... sad, but true".

I think the many hints to the reader in the text about Lyanna being Jon's mother (that fly in the face of all in-universe evidence!) are an exercise in complicity, to draw readers in and ultimately show them just how easy it is to believe in fairytales like the characters do, and to show the cost of doing so in a way that truly hurts, and makes us think harder about these things. Prophecy has power in ASOIAF, both indirectly because the characters make them come true through mundane acts, and also because there seems to be a magical mechanism that sometimes brings them to fruition in unexpected ways, but this "magic is sort of real" concept is not applicable to reality, and so really isn't very deep– it's just not really worth writing about!

What is applicable to reality is that a sword you get by tempering it in Nissa Nissa's heart is not worth having.

Women can, and do, have elective late-term abortions. Even in the second and third trimesters, abortionists will perform abortions on healthy mothers carrying healthy babies — and will falsify bogus “health” reasons on the paperwork.

I realize that’s a bold claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. How about a late-term abortionist’s testimony under oath?

23-year-old Keisha Atkins was 6 months pregnant when she sought an abortion. She had no physical or mental health diagnosis; she simply did not want to be pregnant. Abortionist Shannon Carr of Albuquerque (pictured) was happy to oblige. But that baby wasn’t the only one to die; Keisha also lost her life. Carr was forced to testify in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Keisha’s family, which earlier this year settled for over a million dollars. 

Not to be political, but it makes me SO ANGRY when conservatives talk about “late term abortion”. They imply that these babies are unwanted, unloved, and that their parents are morally reprehensible for aborting them. That is just not the fucking case WHATSOEVER.

I lost my little cousin Charlie James to “late term abortion”. He was somewhere around 20 weeks along, but past the legal cutoff limit for abortion. He was wanted, planned, and very much loved. However, at the anatomy scan, they made a very grave discovery. He didn’t have a bladder, and from what I understand, his kidneys didn’t develop correctly either.

Charlie’s family’s medical team searched TIRELESSLY for a way to save him, but there was simply nothing that could be done. Continuing the pregnancy would’ve been incredibly dangerous to his mother. After about the 20th week of pregnancy, the fetus’s urine makes up most of the amniotic fluid. Well, Charlie wouldn’t have been able to urinate, so there wouldn’t have been enough amniotic fluid, which would’ve caused serious problems for his mom. It was simply no longer safe to continue the pregnancy. (If it had been possible, I assume that his mother probably would’ve wanted to continue the pregnancy for organ donation purposes. She works in the medical field, and I’m sure she would’ve wanted Charlie to have been able to help save other babies’ lives.)

After a lot of discussion, Charlie’s mom was induced, and Charlie was born. He was such a perfect little boy, except that he just wasn’t meant to survive. He had ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes, a little button nose… he was perfect. His family was able to hold him, cuddle him, tell him how much they loved him. Then, he passed away.

Charlie’s family bought the plots that were once intended for my family in case we had all passed away in some tragic accident when we were younger. Thankfully, we didn’t, and the plots were still available. (We wouldn’t use them if we passed away these days— Charlie’s family lives in Nebraska, and my family’s lived in Texas for 27 years. That’s just not where we belong.) Charlie’s buried in one of those plots, just a few plots over from my Papa (my maternal grandfather). Now, Papa passed away like 13 years ago, and he wasn’t biologically related to Charlie (Charlie’s on my dad’s side of the family), but I’m sure that Papa’s taking good care of him. ❤️ Charlie’s got a headstone, and he was buried, which shows you just how loved he was. He wasn’t treated as medical waste like an unwanted aborted fetus. He was treasured and cherished and has a place of honor in a cemetery.

So I guess what I’m saying is, when you think of “late term abortion”, don’t think of some family cruelly and callously deciding to terminate a pregnancy at 20+ weeks simply because the fetus is unwanted. That’s just not reality. (Not that that’s what I think of people that choose abortion for that reason— it’s just the picture that conservatives try to paint.) Instead, think of my little cousin CJ. Loved, cherished, planned and wanted, but incompatible with life. If you’re a religious person, then you could say that it just wasn’t in God’s plan for him to survive. If you’re not, then you could say that it was just a natural fluke in the developmental process, perfectly natural and not at all unusual in nature, but incredibly tragic. Either way, think of baby CJ and remember that these pregnancies aren’t terminated out of hate, but out of compassion for both mother and child.

This is really hard to watch so viewer discretion is advised. This is horrific! If we don’t fight for these poor babies, who will?

anti-choicers should be hunted for sport! :D

THE KIDS HAVE BEEN USING WHISTLES DOWNSTAIRS NON STOP FOR OVER AN HOUR

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Data about later abortions

dr who pro life episode is not something that anyone ever needed and i certainly didnt want it

Am very much not loyal to one book, will read multiple books at a time, hence why I have 4 other bookmarked books alongside The Raven Boys, it was 5 but I finished one today.

The book is called Sabriel by Garth Nix.

It is great. The main character (who funnily enough is called Sabriel) is an absolute disaster of a person.

Within this world there are these people called Charter Mages who practise Charter spells which is basically just magic, and as most worlds with magic do they have necromancy magic. However for quite a time in this world there has existed a generational title of Abhorsen which sounds similar to abortion, and given the nature of the Abhorsen it just turns their duty of keeping the dead, dead funnier. And Abhorsen’s purpose is essentially just making sure that the dead don’t return to life, as they are extremely dangerous.

Sabriel is the newest Abhorsen and also the most unaware, she was kept in the modern side of the world instead of the old kingdom where an Abhorsen’s duty typically lies. So when it comes time for her to venture their and take on the title of Abhorsen temporarily, she knows nothing, well that’s a lie, she knows the basics, and thank god she has common sense.

From the moment she steps foot into the old kingdom til the end of the book she is a complete disaster, doesn’t really know much about the previous Abhorsen’s and the only person capable of telling her anything, is a weird sassy free spirit cat who enjoys toying with her. His name is Mogget and I love him, not just because he takes on the form of a cat most of the time.

She barely sleeps, when she first enters the old kingdom she has to find Abhorsen’s house which she wasn’t really told how to do so she has to summon a dead spirit to give her directions, which attracts the attention of a really dangerous dead being who spends the rest of the book hunting her down. When she gets to the house she gets one night of rest before setting off again in a weird plane thing controlled by your own wind magic. She crashes it into some sort of ancient “grave” sight, almost gets killed by Mogget for reasons I will not explain because spoilers, and then brings someone back from the dead who had been turned into a ships figurehead. His name is Touchstone and unfortunately, no one makes use of the pun potential of that name.

Then she travels to a village ravaged by dead where she is almost killed again by the living residents. She gets a decent break through a 5 day journey at sea and a nice hotel room to stay in at their destination once they reach it. The following day however.

Breaks into a 200 year old ruin to rescue someone, gets noticed by the big bad of the book who uses his dead minions to give himself a grand entrance because why not. After spoiler events happen she and Touchstone bolt it out of the ruin, almost dying. Sabriel gets shot with an arrow. Is given another magic plane to fly which she doesn’t crash this time. Goes back to her home and essentially convinces people that she needs to dig up a coffin to destroy a body. I will not explain what happens after, go read the book.

I will say that towards the end of the book I was kind of expecting the author to start referring to Sabriel as Abhorsen, throughout the book she’s very much like, Abhorsen is not my title, call me Sabriel, and almost everyone calls her Abhorsen. But towards the end she starts accepting the title and was kinda expecting the author to just start using the title instead of her name, but who knows, maybe that’ll happen in the next book. There was a nice little moment between Mogget and Sabriel where he actually used her name, despite constantly telling Mogget to call her Sabriel, he doesn’t and uses Abhorsen except for that one time, which to me felt like a mini moment of Mogget showing respect to her.

Anyways, that’s Sabriel, go read the book, it’s beautiful.

Also Sabriel’s hot, am very gay for her.