whoever wrote this line needs to receive a medal
This is probably true, but let’s be honest here, there are millions of women (at least in the US) lining up in support of regressive abortion laws. This isn’t just a ‘man’ problem. It’s a Christian problem.
The sadder thing is that many of those women still want to get their abortions on the sly when they get pregnant unintentionally.
Morning-after pill available over the counter to all ages in US
USA TODAY: A federal judge in New York has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the “morning-after” pill available over the counter and without prescription to girls of all ages.
The ruling overturns a decision in 2011 by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius which barred over-the-counter sales of the controversial pill to girls under 17. Sebelius’ decision itself had overruled an FDA recommendation to widen availability.Photo: (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Pro-life folks, this is how you stop abortion appropriately, by using modern medicine and giving people the option to prevent pregnancies they do not want. Really, this judge just did more to prevent abortions than any of you ever have by terrorizing women and doctors.
Granted, Obama’s administration should have been able to get this decision right in the first place, and the fact that they failed women on this issue is yet another disappointment the judiciary has had to fix for them.
- Outlawing the dollar.
- Striking the words ‘sea level rise.’
- Banning ‘Sharia Law.’
- Defining life as beginning before conception.
- Zeroing out foreign aid.
- Creationism in schools.
- Promoting discrimination on military bases.
- Allowing citizens to shoot at cops.
Just one short year ago they were trying to make it legal to defend fetuses with deadly force, which if you ask me, is about as crazy as any of these wacky proposals.
I wish I could have a ‘Choose Ryan Stevens’ plate. That would be fun.
The answer is it doesn’t; so stop spamming this propaganda. Tod Akin is an imbecile but he is one imbecile, not an entire religion. For a group of people who seem to value that they are of higher intelligence than everyone else you really do seem like a bunch of imbeciles.
The problem isn’t Todd Akin’s ignorance of basic biology (well, not the whole problem) but the policies he supports and for which he advocates. (ie, a total ban on abortion even in cases of sexual assault and the mother’s health, and the redefinition of rape to ‘forcible rape’.)
Being that the Republican Party has adopted this as part of their platform, we can indeed blame them as a party for their beliefs.
And, given that the government is wholly owned by Christians and they’ve decided it’s their prerogative to effectively ban abortion by adding so many regulations that it’s impossible to obtain, we can indeed blame their medieval, primitive bullshit religion for its horrid effect on the rights and status of women.
Now, if you yourself don’t believe that, then I apologize that you’ve experienced such criticism when it’s undeserving, and I hope that you’re doing your part within your community to change the way it leads people to treat others.
YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE DOES
TERATOMAS
Yes, and you know what else had a heartbeat? Terri Schiavo, but I wouldn’t argue that she was alive. (And I’d laugh in the face of anyone who would.)
Pro-life folks have difficulty understanding the difference between animated tissue and living things.
Missouri Senate candidate: “Legitmiate” rape victims can’t get pregnant
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Missouri Rep. Todd Akin said in a Sunday interview. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin, who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, then claimed that even if these biological mechanisms don’t work, the perpetrator, not the child, should be punished. Kind of tough to defend that.
This is who the Republicans are running for Senate in Missouri. I just want to point that Todd Akin’s idiocy is not representative of our fine state. (In fact, our governor just this year vetoed a bill that would have allowed employers to make medical decisions for their employees.)
It’s moments like these that I’m reminded of why I place so much emphasis on not ignoring information that contradicts your preferred narrative.
It makes you look stupid, as with the anti-choice person above.
Anti-choice folks need people to believe that all abortions are late-term, or their arguments fall flat. The fact that they are very rare, performed exclusively to ensure the mother’s health, and heavily regulated in basically every state is sadly a set of facts that is an inconvenience to them.
According to a Gallup poll released last month, eighty-two percent of Catholics see nothing wrong with birth control. (And ninety percent of Non-Catholics.) Eighty-two freaking percent, people.
Looks like attacking peoples’ sexuality and trying to regulate contraception is a winning strategy for November, jesus freaks. So please, zealots, keep up with this cockblocking crusade of yours, at least until the election is over.
This Wednesday, May 23 marked a first for broadcasting (and for feminism): BBC Radio news anchor Victoria Derbyshire aired her mid-morning show live from an abortion clinic. Her goal was refreshingly straightforward, as explained in her introduction, “What we’d like to do is tell you what happens when a woman considers an abortion and then decides to have one.”
The show came just a day after the public learned of the death of 38-year-old Catherine Furey, a mother of five who died from drinking industrial-strength vinegar in an attempt at a home abortion. Although it’s impossible to know why she took such drastic action, it’s a tragic reminder of the type of situation that could become commonplace if women were denied abortion access.
In the US, just in the past year, we’ve seen women arrested and jailed for miscarriages. We’ve seen them die because their state laws forced them to resort to such terrible methods as throwing themselves down stairs and ordering poisons on the internet.
No more fucking coat hangers!
