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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/10/1175255611/advisers-to-the-fda-back-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/health/over-the-counter-birth-control-fda-advisers/index.html

WE WON'T GO BACK!

Honoring my female anger by channeling it into my art. 🎀

Stand up. Speak up. Fight back. 💪🏼

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some protest sign designs i made in light of roe v wade. Please feel free to use and share!!

Okay. I’ve been thinking on this for the past few days, ever since the news dropped. Honestly, I feel like a lot of people are not looking at this issue the right way. Say whatever you want on whether you think a fetus is a living human being or when life truly begins. It’s a philosophical question that will never have a clear cut answer. However, whether or not a fetus is a living human being is not the issue. It simply doesn’t matter. What this all boils down to is Bodily Autonomy. The human right to decide what happens to your physical body.

People say “Abortion is murder! You are killing babies!”

Think about it like this, is it murder to not donate bone marrow to the two year dying of cancer?

Is it murder to not donate your blood every week to supplement the constant demand and shortages of blood products?

Is it murder every time someone dies waiting on the organ transplant list?

The answer to those questions is no. None of those things are murder. Are they unfortunate and heartbreaking? Yes. However, no one is going to prison or getting fined in any of these circumstances because it is unlawful and immoral to force someone to put their health and life at risk to save another. It’s not murder because you didn’t step in front of the bullet to save someone else. In no other instance is there even a discussion on whether we should force someone to use their body to sustain someone else’s life. We do not even force corpses to do that. If you don’t have written permission as an organ donor then none are taken that could save multiple lives and even improve the lives of many more. It’s not anyone else’s decision what happens to your body, even as a corpse.

And I know people like to minimize what it really means to be pregnant and give birth. It’s sugar coated and romanticized but it is a dangerous endeavor whether you want to believe it or not. People die not only in labor but from pregnancy complications all the time, especially in America where we have the HIGHEST maternity mortality rate of all first world countries. In fact, according to the WHO we are only one of two countries whose maternal mortality rate has INCREASED since 2000 (the other being the Dominican Republic). And that rate goes up the younger/older the mother gets. Women choose to take that risk to bring life into this world. They suffer to bring life into this world. 10 year olds who just got their period and are raped will most likely die if they are forced to try and give birth. Pro Life until outside the womb. Doesn’t that child’s life matter? Doesn’t the 11, 12, 13 year olds life matter? Doesn’t the 42 year old mom with 3 other kids life matter?

But as I said before, that’s not what this is about. None of the anti abortion advocates care about life. They have shown that again and again through the policies they block and support. There is no support for mothers and children outside of the womb.

Let’s all call this what it is, a ploy for control. A ploy for the control of women and anyone with a uterus. A ploy for control of the working class and the poor folks of this country. They are the ones that will pay the most dearly for this. People who have the means to “take a vacation” after “getting in trouble” won’t. There is no other reason for this because it is not about life.

Let’s also not forget that the reasoning used in the Supreme Courts decision stated that Roe v Wade was baseless and it’s foundation faulty. That foundation was the right to privacy. Other cases that have been settled on that same basis will now be under threat, all of which have been threatened recently by republicans in office. These cases include, Lawrence v Texas (right to sexual privacy), Griswald v Connecticut (right to contraception for married couples), Obergefell v Hodges (right to same sex marriage), and even Loving v Virginia (right to interracial marriage). I don’t want to wake up in two years to find my marriage nullified. Does it sound like I’m jumping to the worst case? Like I’m catastrophizing? Well two years ago you would have said the same thing about Roe v Wade.

And say what you will on why this is happening be it the falling birth rates, religious extremism, or just good old fashioned misogyny. Both women and men should be furious. The majority of Americans do not support this. The lie of the “Silent Majority” can only last so long. So VOTE and RAGE. Rage and rage and rage until it cannot be ignored.

WE WILL NOT GO BACK

Some sites to visit and donate if you can: The Abortion Fund https://abortionfunds.org Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project https://wrrap.org Planned Parenthood https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-involved/other-ways-give

LISTEN TO EVERY WORD OF THIS.

“This is not over.” -Kamala Harris ParaPaper

It was put in place for a reason, for the safety of women for the health of our people.

The Supreme Court doesn't care of the deaths that will come if its illegal again. They don't care for the babies left in the streets, door steps, rivers and trash if it's illegal again.

They don't care about the people, they are old and dying. They only wish for chaos to be left in the world they are leaving instead of trying to make it better for those after them.

Having a legal safe option is better than the dangers of it being illegal. Abortion will not go away if it becomes illegal, there are always more dangerous means that will be available. Just another war the government is putting on its people. More conflict between us instead of trying to unitify us.

Making it illegal won't make it go away.

THE REASON THE SUPREME COURT IS PASSING SO MANY STUPID RULINGS IS BECAUSE THEY KNOW GEN Z IS FUCKING ANGRY AND GOING TO THE POLLS THIS NOVEMBER AND WE ARE VOTING REPUBLICANS OUT OF OFFICE COME THIS NOVEMBER.

IF VOTING DIDN'T WORK REPUBLICANS WOULDNT BE TRYING SO HARD TO STRIP AS MANY AMERICANS FROM THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE BEFORE NOVEMBER COMES ALONG.

HERE IS WHAT THEY DONT WANT TO SAY ABOUT ABORTION BEING LEFT TO THE STATES: IN RED STATES, IT IS BECOMING A CRIMINAL CHARGE WHICH MEANS YOU WILL BE A FELON IF CONVICTED. BYE BYE VOTING RIGHTS FOR WOMEN OF COLOR ESPECIALLY IN RED STATES. WHY DO YOU THINK THEY DECIDED IN 2022, AFTER THEY LOST ARIZONA AND GEORGIA TO THE DEMOCRATS IN 2020! WE CAN DO IT AGAIN. VOTE IN BLUE SENATORS IN RED STATES GEN Z.

These ads in my news feed are killing me...no Tumblr I don't fucking want to see ads for fucking Viagra for "him" when my very existence and privacy as a woman are now on the fucking GOP gerrymandered religious extremist SCOTUS chopping block! And why did you start posting them right now FFS!

Furthermore stop putting those manscaping ads in my feed when I keep asking you to hide them! I don't want to hear about "balls" every damn time I come on this hellsite!

And please fix the damn code at the bottom of your ads, its bigger than everything else in my news feed and it looks stupid! Don't you ever look at this stuff or check your work?!

I'm so sorry, not sorry. I'm so fucking triggered by this crap now. if they overturn Roe vs. Wade they are coming for everything else too. There will be blood.

The news is scary/depressing as fuck, but Mr. Rogers taught me to look for the helpers when things seemed overwhelming. This was a nice news article to wake up to...

Some vent and protest art, i’m very proud of these.

the penalty for rape is less than the penalty for abortion even after a rape. And you don't see the problem ? What the fuck is wrong with that world ???