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hey what if someone invented a machine that allowed women to transfer their pregnancies to men and then the government passed a law that if a woman didn’t want to have a baby the biological father was required to carry it how fast do you think birth control would stop being an issue
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Abortion is murder.
your cis male tears are delicious.
Also, fucking seriously? You expect a fucking GIRL IN HIGH SCHOOL to maintain a pregnancy just so that YOUR 14 year old ass can have a kid?
How would you support that kid?
It’s not even like you care about her situation, the fact that she couldn’t possibly carry a pregnancy to term, since she was a young girl and a pregnancy that young could fuck her body up, and then she would have to find a way to feed and clothe that child, after having to find a way to pay for medical bills.But no, you decide to go on the internets and shame her for making the choice she thought was best for her situation.
You’re a piece of shit, gif boy.
a perfect example of an immature and utterly irresponsible teenage father. well, he would have been a teenage father. voicing your problems on the internet, bashing the teenage girl who refused to throw away her entire young life so you could be a “father”? yes, logical. great. no 14 year old girl should be a mother in this era. far too young, farrrrrrr too young
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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.]
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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.
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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.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdgkqsH1JJ1qhb2nco1_400.jpg)
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.
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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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Oh, you mean like providing prenatal care, vaccinations, pelvic exams, clinical breast exams, checking for cervical cancer, treating and diagnosing STIs, providing sexual education, providing various forms of birth control and education on how to use it, providing CVS, amniocentesis, ultrasounds, and multiple marker screenings?
Oh wait. They already do.
Planned Parenthood prevents more abortions than they administer.
Planned Parenthoods hand out condoms to ANYONE who asks for them. Each one of those condoms not only prevents a pregnancy, but a abortion. They’re also the only place that I have seen where you can get dental dams.
Many people receive their birth control at Planned Parenthood. In effect, that will prevent unplanned pregnancies and there isn’t any need for abortions when they are used properly. Birth control does not, in fact, abort fetuses but prevents the egg and sperm from ever meeting/not allowing the embryo to implant at all/interrupting the menstrual cycle so an egg is never released. It does not kill anything.
Little fun fact: When my mom was pregnant with me she got all of her prenatal care from Planned Parenthood and I was delivered by a planned Parenthood doctor. so if you say that the only babies that go through Planned Parenthood are aborted ones, then I’m doing pretty well for being an aborted fetus. Obviously, I’m not the only one because my mom has had three children via Planned Parenthood. I give them all the credit for how healthy and happy we ended up being.
Planned Parenthood has helped me in recent years as I have become more sexually active. Like affordable or even free STI testing.
They provide affordable/free breast exams to women for breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings.
Planned Parenthood saved my life with the free counseling and group sessions they offer to rape victims and members of the LGBT youth.
They offer sexual health education so people are more aware of how to prevent unplanned pregnancies and prevent STI’s. Remember those people that would come into your middle school and talk about sex? Chances are they were from Planned Parenthood.
They also help give options to pregnant people. They offer help with whatever they choose whether it be parenting, adoption, or abortion.
Now most people hone in on the abortion aspect of choice and whether that is moral or not, but Planned Parenthood isn’t all about abortion. They’re about choice. Not just the choice to abort, but also the choice to parent or put a child up for adoption. They’re about wanted babies, not just sometimes unnecessary procedures. They’re about information and preventing unplanned pregnancies, not just undoing a mistake.
Oh, and they also provide jobs to thousands of people.
So don’t you ever say that Planned Parenthood doesn’t help women, because they do. In too many ways to count and I am forever indebted to them.
Also, part of the decision process that a woman makes in getting an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic includes THERAPY. That’s right, you actually talk about it. You cannot have an abortion there unless you are checked out by their doctor and undergo a screening first. You can’t just walk in and say, “One abortion, please!” Not to mention that with all the services that they provide, as of 2011, only 5% of all services are abortion services. (That encompasses the therapy as well as the actual procedure.) That means that a whopping 95% of all services that PP provides have NOTHING TO DO WITH ABORTION AT ALL.
Correction- only 3% of their services are abortions
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President Obama responds to rape statement (below) from Senate candidate Richard Mourdock:
“I struggled with it myself for a long time but I came to realize, life is a gift from god and even if life begins in the horrible situation of rape it is something god intended to happen.”
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The last thing on Jennie Linn McCormack’s mind when she realized she was pregnant was that she might, with a single telephone call, upend the vitriolic national debate on abortion.
All she thought about was how it would be impossible for her to take care of another baby. Surviving, barely, on the $250 of monthly child support for one of her three kids, the unemployed, unmarried 32-year-old also knew she didn’t have the more than $500 she’d need for the two-and-a-half-hour trip from her bare-bones rental in Pocatello, Idaho, to Salt Lake City, the closest city with a clinic willing to terminate a pregnancy. She had no computer, no car, no one to take care of her 2-year-old—and like Idaho, Utah had a waiting period for abortions, which meant she’d have to make two round trips. So early this past January, she made the call that may alter history and turn Jennie McCormack into Jane Roe’s unlikely successor: she asked her sister in Mississippi to buy RU-486, the so-called abortion pill, over the Internet and send it to her. The cost: about $200.
“My mind just kept going back to my kids, how there was no way I could do that to them, no way I could make their lives even worse,” says McCormack, a petite blonde, as she nearly sinks between the cushions of her sofa, her eyes rimmed with tears. The man who had impregnated her had just been sent to jail for robbery; she did not feel comfortable reaching out to her mother—Mormon, like almost everyone in southeastern Idaho—for help.
McCormack, who thought she was about 12 weeks along, took the pills (the protocol involves two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol) the afternoon they arrived. The drugs are FDA-approved only for ending early-stage pregnancies; McCormack had no complications, but the pregnancy turned out to be more advanced than she thought—perhaps between 18 and 21 weeks, experts later speculated—and the size of the fetus scared her. She didn’t know what to do—“I was paralyzed,” she says—so she put it in a box on her porch, and, terrified, called a friend. That friend then called his sister, who reported McCormack to the police.
Although RU-486 is legal and the fetus was not yet “viable” (that is, old enough to live outside the uterus), Idaho has a 1972 law—never before enforced—making it a crime punishable by five years in prison for a woman to induce her own abortion. The day after police arrested McCormack, her mug shot appeared above the fold in the local newspaper. “It’s hard to imagine the humiliation and fear,” says her lawyer, Richard Hearn, who is also a physician.
So a woman becomes pregnant and knows she does not have the means to support a baby. Due to the regressive abortion laws in her own state and surrounding states, she is incapable of getting a safe abortion from a doctor. She asks her sister to send her a drug that can induce abortion and takes it. She is further along than she realized and, while lucky she didn’t experience any serious complications, she is frightened by what has happened, and she calls a friend.
And what does that friend do? Instead of help her, calls a sibling who in turn calls the police.
When people say they are pro-life and they are against abortion because they are such good people, I look at stories like this. She doesn’t have the money to take care of the kids she has, much less another one, and she is desperate to end her pregnancy because she feels like she has no alternatives. The people in her life are apparently so kind and supportive to her, they would turn her in to the police before helping her. So she does something extremely dangerous to end her pregnancy, and when all is said and done, they want to throw her in jail because she was alone and frightened and had nowhere else to turn because they couldn’t care less about a woman living on the edge having a baby she can’t take care of or the other living children she needs to support, but can get up at arms enough over a fetus that they’d call her a murderer. And then shame her publicly in the local paper.
It’s disgusting and horrible and if anyone who calls themselves pro-life ever wants to talk to me about morality and Jesus, I’m going to point them to this woman, who had no support or help from the so-called Christians in her own community, but who were more than happy to turn around and pillory her for aborting the baby she had no means to take care of.
And shame on Planned Parenthood and NARAL for not taking a stand for this woman. She was desperate, backed into a corner thanks to anti-abortion laws, and terrified. She deserves our defense, even if she isn’t a “perfect” abortion recipient.
This whole thing just pisses me the fuck off.
I am weeping—
weeping right now
I cannot FATHOM the misery this woman must be going through as a result of all of this
absolutely unbelievable, all of it, and everything else that’s happening in this nation right now
OUR RIGHTS ARE SLIPPING AWAY
OUR ACCESS TO ABORTION IS SLIPPING. AWAY.
and sometimes I really am fucking scared that we’re powerless to stop it
Why not have the kid and put it up for adoption? Is that really so difficult an option to think of?
“Why not have the kid and put it up for adoption? Is that really so difficult an option to think of?”
Did you not read the article at all??
First off, this woman had “no computer, no car, no one to take care of her 2-year-old.” We don’t even know if she had a regular doctor she saw! We don’t know If she has insurance? Could she even afford 9 months prenatal care? Afford however much a birth or possible c-section would cost? Even if she did how the hell was she supposed to get to these places with no car and very little extra money??
Second, you make it seem like pregnancy is just a walk in the park. Maybe for some women, but that isn’t a generalization I feel we should make. Pregnancy changes a person’s whole fucking body. She could have morning sickness, blood pressure problems, mental health problems and a whole other host of possibilities. If a woman(person) doesn’t want to go through all this, changing their body forever than what right have you to force them? This isn’t even considering what it could do emotionally to a woman to have a child and give it up because she could not financially afford to take care of him/her. That’s not even considering if that child is put up for adoption that he/she even does GET adopted and does just float around foster homes until aging out of the system.
Third, no woman is under ANY obligation to provide children to a stranger!! NONE. Do you know how many kids are in the system right now waiting to be adopted?
Why aren’t all these potential parents adopting the kids already in the system?? Why do you need one more kids to shove in a system that has some major problems with ageism and racism? When this number of unwanted kids in the system goes waaaaay down, then you can start talking about “Why not have the kid and put it up for adoption?” Until then, please don’t.
My grandmother, who’s a devout Christian born in Texas in 1929, has always been very open minded. She’s not racist or homophobic, most likely because as a Mexican she knew what it was like to face discrimination, but she’s extremely pro-choice, and a few years ago she told us why.
When she was a preteen (11-13), she moved to San Francisco and lived in an apartment building for some time, the woman in the apartment next to her was a young single nurse living on her own. This woman was very friendly, hard not to like.
After a while my grandmother noticed she hadn’t seen the nurse in some time, as did other people in the building. Around the time my grandmother was wondering where she went, she began to notice a bad smell coming from what seemed like somewhere in the apartment. As time went on the smell got worse, until her family realized it was coming from the apartment next to them, the nurse’s home.
When they broke the door down they found the nurse dead in her bathroom, the smell was from her body beginning to rot.
Turns out that the nurse had gotten pregnant from a very high up MARRIED doctor at the hospital she worked at. Of course in that time having a baby out of wedlock, especially from a married man, was something extremely shameful, so she had tried to give herself a home abortion and died in the process.
My grandmother never forgot what had happened to the nurse, and that was the reason she was and still is vehemently pro-choice.
When people say shit like “Our generation survived Roe V Wade” it makes me want to tear my hair out. These people, either out of ignorance or just plain stupidity, don’t acknowledge the FACT that Roe V Wade wasn’t the start of abortion, it was the LEGALIZATION of it.
LEGALIZATION MEANING THAT IT HAD ALREADY BEEN HAPPENING, NOW IT WAS JUST LEGAL TO DO IT.
Before Roe V Wade women like my grandmother’s neighbor were dying or being mutilated by home abortions or unlicensed doctors. Women are going to get abortions whether it’s legal or not, the best thing you can do for them is to give them a safe, clean environment with a licensed doctor and good moral support.Anything less is simply a death sentence.
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I got pregnant at 15, I was on a ton of medications at the time, suffering from severe depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. It would have been born dead or have severe birth defects. I chose to abort because I knew there was no way I could handle being pregnant for 9 months and then give birth to something I neither wanted nor needed. Doctors told me I had chances of dying if I gave birth. I had a woman in the waiting room who was also getting an abortion scoff at me, I’ve had parents friends tell me I had no right taking my parents grandchild away from them. My parents never said a bad thing about it to me. I’m 19 now, it’s been 4 years and there is never a single moment where I regret my decision. It would have ruined my life, I could be dead. I’m more important than a fetus, my body is not here for other people to dictate and my womb is not a breeding ground for others desires, and neither is anyone elses!
I am 1 in 3 and damn proud!
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I had an abortion when I was 19 years old. I have tokophobia. I don’t want to be pregnant, I don’t want to give birth. I just wanted to finish my studies (now I’m almost done!).Mom was disappointed. Dad said that even if it was my body, I “had no right”. Tell me, have you ever felt like you weren’t a human being? Have you ever felt like an object? Have you been told that you have no rights? That basically your body is not yours? I have.Sorry, but I’m not sorry. I am the 1 in 3.
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