February 2012
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Why The Republican AG’s Anti-Birth Control... →
prolongedeyecontact:
Republicans oppose the new rule ensuring that women’s insurance will cover birth control, so they’ve now done what Republicans seem to do whenever they disagree with President Obama — sue:
Seven states sued the Obama administration Thursday over its requirement that employers cover contraception in workers’ health plans.
The lawsuit, led by Nebraska’s attorney...
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“Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has...”
– Rick Santorum.
The democrats are a massive homosexual orgy?
Interesting.
(via anticapitalist)
Does Santorum know that Woodstock is a town in New York state? It’s a pretty quiet town, actually, so this quote is just so funny. (via afunnyfeminist)
I’m pretty sure my sex life is way more exciting...
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thesexuneducated:
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racetothestoneage:
I’m so happy you’re doing this list! Just thought I’d help you out a little :)
Virginia has a third antichoice bill in progress. It will eliminate Medicaid funding for poor pregnant people who need abortions because their fetus has zero chance of survival.
Yup, already passed the House, and is on the Senate floor. +6 net for Virginia, so far.
Pennsylvania recently had a...
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Okay, so someone sent me a link to the Nebraska...
prolongedeyecontact:
But it’s actually dated February 24, 2011…not February 24 as in today. I’m not sure why. So I apologize that is old news. But I can’t find anything on whether it was passed. Does anyone know?
It doesn’t look like it. The last action on the Nebraska legislature’s page was the judiciary hearing in February, 2011, and a search for “justifiable...
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BREAKING NEWS: Texas lets 130,000 people (most of... →
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racetothestoneage:
stfusexists:
Texas has decided to violate federal policies concerning the Women’s Health Program of Medicaid, and has lost $40 million of federal funding towards reproductive health care in the process. Way to go Texas! Now you’ve produced Rick Perry, W, and THIS abomination of legislation.
Click through to see what this means for reproductive rights in...
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STFU, Conservatives: nachtflix asked: Considering... →
rabbleprochoice:
I’ve been saying this for years.
All of these pro-life bills are doing is wasting money, stripping NECESSARY rights away from people who have already been granted them by the constitution, and wasting time. That’s the whole point. The GOP is purposefully trying to waste time. They know that if they tie up the majority of the legislation up with bills that have no chance in...
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Plan B: All About Emergency Contraception
myplannedparenthood:
All about Plan B today: how the morning-after pill works and how it does NOT cause abortions.
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David Frum: Why the Birth Control Issue Stings →
theworldisconfused:
Right now, hundreds of thousands of young Americans are using birth control to delay pregnancies they want, but feel they cannot currently afford.
If this poll is correct, almost one-third of young Americans have delayed starting a family because of the bad economy.
Think about how last night’s debate sounded from the point of view of such people.
They are starting their...
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Virginia's Antichoice Legislation, or Who Gets...
prolongedeyecontact:
Today seems really bittersweet to me. On the one hand, I’m thrilled that Virginia has decided to back down on their invasive transvaginal ultrasound requirement before a pregnant person is allowed an abortion. But on the other hand, I think it’s a clear illustration of one of the core, fundamental problems with the mainstream prochoice movement and capital *F*eminists.
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Watchjessicavalenti:
The Daily Show takes on VA’s transvaginal ultrasound law.
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Transvaginal Ultrasounds ARE ALREADY HAPPENING
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
I keep wanting to scream, “TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS ARE ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TODAY IN TEXAS!!!!”
Texas has THREE times as many people as Virginia AND they already have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions (I also have no hard data but I’m going to guess that Texas probably also has a much larger poor population and a higher percentage of...
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The Nation’s Most Radical Abortion Bill? Iowa GOP... →
prolongedeyecontact:
In the escalating war on women’s rights in statehouse across the country, Iowa state Rep. Kim Pearson (R) may have just dropped the biggest bomb yet. Pearson, a freshman Tea Party lawmaker so extreme that she’s already drawn scorn from fellow Republicans and decided not to run for re-election, introduced a bill yesterday morning that would completely outlaw all abortions.
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Georgia Democrats to propose limitations on... →
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historicalupstart:
As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats planned to introduce their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.”
Suck on that.
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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
RICK SANTORUM WANTS TO PROTECT YOU! FROM THE EVILS OF PRENATAL TESTING
This entire piece is a Must Read.
I am so bloody tired of being used as a pawn by both the left and the right in reproductive rights rhetoric, I could scream. And in fact, I often do. The right tells us that they oppose bodily autonomy and choice because it would lead to...
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Reproductive Parts →
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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
This is masterful, powerful writing. If you read one single thing today or even in the next week, it should be this post. I’ve already read it all the way through twice. I can feel the words crawling across my skin, making it tingle.
It feels wrong to even excerpt it because the entire thing is a force. You need to read the entire thing. But...
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“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
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“Men, in return, thrived. The ego candy they feasted on by virtue of...”
– Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now (via janedoe225)
An absolutely fantastic article. Amazing. Please go read it.
(via missworded)
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Reproductive issues does not only include...
clatterandclank:
something that is seriously frustrating me right now is that the way abortion is constructed is that it is the total be-all end-all of reproductive issues. The mainstream rhetoric about this basically looks like this:
when actually it looks like this:
There are so many other issues involved in reproductive rights. Things like the ability of trans* parents, queer parents,...
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“You have implicitly implied that the practice of terminating fetuses in the...”
– Daniel Diner, to anti-choice student Andrew Kaake (via artemiskore)
Any time you feel the need to appropriate such an enormous atrocity as the Holocaust, or the struggle of and horrors committed against marginalized people, as in the history of American slavery, step the fuck back and take a long,...
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How To Have Sex With An Aspirin Between Your Knees →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Just in case you haven’t yet had time to work this out for yourself.
You just have to feel bad for old dudes who think that a) the aspirin joke is funny, and b) it would actually work. Must be very unimaginative.
Anonymous asked: What does cis mean?
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No Women on Congress' Birth Control Panel →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Is there anything else that needs to be said about that fucked up farce and waste of tax-payer money that happened today in DC?
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URGENT ALERT! ANTI CHOICE LEGISLATION (HB 4117) IN... →
stfuconservatives:
Reproductive Health and Access Advocates,
HB 4117 has been scheduled to be heard in the House Agriculture Committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday, February 21 at 2:00 p.m. It is expected to pass out of this committee. HB 4117 would impose full ambulatory surgical treatment center (ASTC) licensing on all facilities where 50 or more abortions are performed each year. This...
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“Back in my days they used bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it...”
– Foster Friess, Santorum Super PAC Backer - Buzzfeed (via brooklynmutt)
I’m going to hate everything today, aren’t I?
(via ipomoeaandthestarstealers)
HAHAHA FUCK YOU.
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Bill Defining Life At Conception Passes Okla.... →
steampunkanachronism:
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Senate has overwhelmingly approved an anti-abortion “personhood” bill that declares life begins at conception, despite objections from the medical community that the bill could have dire unintended consequences. On Wednesday, the GOP-controlled Senate voted 34-8 for the bill by Tulsa Republican Sen. Brian Crain. It now heads to the House for...
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Virginia apparently has passed two very... →
prochoicegeneration:
I CAN’T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE MY OUTRAGE
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Did you hear me? The GOP are now going to try to...
ok4rj:
The GOP Responds: They Will Fight To Let ANY Employer Deny Birth Control Coverage
JFC! Don’t they have better things to do?!
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[TW unsafe abortion] Anatomy of an unsafe abortion →
prolongedeyecontact:
[This is a heartbreaking story about what happens when abortion is restricted and stigmatized. Legality is meaningless unless pregnant people can actually access safe, legal abortions. There’s nothing pro-life about giving pregnant people no options. Essay by Dr. Jen Gunter. From her bio: I was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada and graduated from The University of Manitoba...
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“My junior year in college, it was such a struggle to afford the pill every...”
– In response to Rep. Tom Price who claimed that no woman has ever been denied access to birth control because she could not afford it. ”Bring me one woman who has been left behind. Bring me one. There’s not one,” Price told ThinkProgress when it asked how low-income women could access contraception...
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TW: CISSEXISM
prolongedeyecontact:
bebinn:
prolongedeyecontact:
[Catholic Girl Problem #40: Having our dignity and femininity under attack for almost 40 years under Roe v Wade. Screenshot from: mycatholicgirlproblems.tumblr.com]
“Many feminists insist that abortion is necessary for women to participate freely and equally in society. Anyone who disagrees, they argue, has merely adopted patriarchal...
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“I had just moved to New York City after college, working at an unpaid internship...”
– In response to Rep. Tom Price who claimed that no woman has ever been denied access to birth control because she could not afford it. ”Bring me one woman who has been left behind. Bring me one. There’s not one,” Price told ThinkProgress when it asked how low-income women could access contraception...
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Read stories from people who have no regrets about... →
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Anon: "My abortion didn't hurt me, people did."
stfuconservatives:
I want to share my story because its often a perspective that gets ignored in this conversation. While I understand and support the idea that abortion does not cause emotional turmoil, I also experienced a lot of emotional turmoil surrounding my abortion. But there’s definitely some clarification that needs to be made about that.
For one, sadness =/= regret. I have never, not...
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TW: CISSEXISM
prolongedeyecontact:
[Catholic Girl Problem #40: Having our dignity and femininity under attack for almost 40 years under Roe v Wade. Screenshot from: mycatholicgirlproblems.tumblr.com]
“Many feminists insist that abortion is necessary for women to participate freely and equally in society. Anyone who disagrees, they argue, has merely adopted patriarchal standards and accepted women’s...