Remember this is a sensitive topic so some things could be triggering
Do they really believe that abortion is murder? (a handy dandy chart, courtesy of Alas, A Blog!)
Almost none of their policies make sense if they really see no difference between the death of a fetus and the death of a four-year-old. However, nearly all their policies make sense if they’re seeking to make sure that women who have sex “face the consequences.” are punished. After years of seeing this pattern repeated again and again, it’s difficult to take them at their word.
Who are the women who have abortions in the US? Why do they decide to end a pregnancy? What are their lives like? The answers might surprise you.
We had another woman go over to the CPC today on accident. She was extremely upset.
It breaks my heart every time this happens.We need your help. In order for us to stand in front of the CPC to get patients before they go in, we need volunteers to help escort at the clinic.
If you’re able to spare some time, please email us at awcjax@yahoo.com
Pharmacists And Doctors In Kansas Can Now Deny Women Access To Birth Control And Chemotherapy
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill yesterday that will allow pharmacists in the state to refuse to fill a prescription they think could be used to induce abortion. But since the “conscience” measure says they cannot be required to provide a drug or devise that they think “may result in the termination of a pregnancy” — but does not define which drug in particular — the law’s opponents say it could allow a pharmacist to interfere with a woman’s health care by refusing to distribute birth control or emergency contraception.
Women who already have difficulty obtaining contraception may face additional hurdles, according to Julie Burkhart, founder of an abortion-rights group in Wichita, Kansas:
Burkhart said the law could create a hardship for women in small towns with a sole pharmacist who may refuse to fill certain prescriptions. In larger cities, women will have to make sure they go to a cooperative pharmacist, she added.
“Women should not have to go armed with a lot of research when looking for a physician or pharmacist in the community,” Burkhart said.
No pharmacist could be fired for refusing to fill such prescriptions, and doctors can refuse to refer patients to pharmacists who would fill a birth control prescription.
Additionally, the Associated Press had reported that the law could “allow a doctor to refuse to provide chemotherapy to a pregnant cancer patient because it might end her pregnancy.”
Brownback’s office justified his signing by saying the bill “gives more legal protection to Kansas health care providers who refuse to participate in abortions” based on their conscience. Kansas already had a law that allowed medical professionals to refuse to assist in abortion procedures.
While Kansas lawmakers failed to pass a sweeping anti-abortion bill that would have required doctors to give false information to their patients, the expanded “conscience” law is just one of several laws recently approved in the state that undermine women’s health and well being.
AND chemotherapy?!
I will never be friends with an Anti Choicer
This is a personal post, but feel free to reblog it if it also applies to you or even if you just want others to read it.
Everyone reblog with your personal bits, ‘cause that’s what I’m gonna do.
The Catholic Church itself has made it’s view on abortion and reproductive very clear, but there are still many Catholics out there who are pro-choice.
I came across this organization while I was doing some research.
There are plenty of links and reading materials on this website, a lot of statistics, some of them are even available in Spanish.
I didn’t get a chance to reading all of them, but I’ll be sure to write up on what I learn once I do have the time.
Shout out to all of the Pro-choice theists out there!
-Jon
[Content Warning: Talk of pregnancy] Price of abortion versus Price of pregnancy
Legal abortions cost at least $350, within the first three months. An illegal abortion can cost up to the life of the pregnant person. (here)
One time cost.MEANWHILE IN PREGGERLAND:
Drug store pregnancy tests: Anywhere from $1-12
Average prenatal care costs (tests, prenatal vitamins): $2,000 (here)
Cost of in hospital birth: $5,000-10,000
C-Section: $12,000 (here)
PLUS all the things for the child-to-be, added all up to be: $12,000-$14,000+So, please, continue to tell me that everyone can afford to be pregnant and no one should have an abortion.
Also, can we just add the other potential costs of pregnancy as well?
A person may have to take time away from their job. A person may lose their job. A person may have to take time away from school or have to stop going to school indefinitely.
And there are the physical costs that can include, but are not limited to:
- Constant vomiting
- Shitloads of headaches
- Pretty much the entire lower half of your body swelling and cramping
- Becoming short of breath
- Having your hair fall out
- Having veins poking up all over the place (your ass included!)
- Temporary or permanent injury to your back
- Blood clots
- Depression
- Death
So, pretty much, not only is legal abortion cheaper than pregnancy (but still not cheap enough, I really have to add, because $350 is a lot of money and that wouldn’t be accessible for a lot of people) but it’s also safer than it, too.
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after allegedly being raped by her stepfather.
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The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term. [Not that you need a fucking excuse for giving a nine year old girl, a FUCKING NINE YEAR OLD GIRL WHO WAS RAPED, an abortion, because PREGNANCY WILL ALWAYS BE VERY FUCKING UNHEALTHY FOR A CHILD, that’s not even including the fucking psychological issues of being raped and having to give birth to rape babies WHEN YOU ARE STILL A BABY YOURSELF]
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He also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed “a heinous crime … the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious”. [Saving a girl’s life and health is apparently worse than being a rapist, but then forgiveness of rapists is actually extremely common amongst Christianity, with the Vatican being the prime example itself.]
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The girl, who was not identified because she is a minor, was last week found to be four months pregnant after being taken to hospital suffering stomach pains.
Officials said she told them she had suffered sexual abuse by her stepfather since the age of six.
Police said the 23-year-old stepfather also allegedly sexually abused the girl’s physically handicapped 14-year-old sister.
In case you ever forget it: All anti-choicers are scum to me, without question.
I don’t even know anymore. Just read the fucking article.
Guess what guys.
I’m pregnant.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE ARE ALL PREGNANT
I’m not ready to be pregnant, though…
so does this mean if you’re already “pregnant” but don’t actually procreate and therefore don’t actually produce the child that was supposedly already alive, you are actually “killing” the baby and committing a crime???
we’re pregnant
I didn’t ask for this.
I want everyone to look at that bold part.
Look at it.
Look at it.
Well, fuck, you guys.
My baby got washed down the shower drain this afternoon.
See you when I get out of jail.
THAT FUCKING COMMENTAnother article gives some context:
“Focusing on gestational age draws focus from so many legitimate reasons this bill is so very bad for women…Calculating gestational age from the first day of the last menstrual period is standard practice among obstetricians, even when gestational age is established via ultrasound.
Here’s why HB2036 is bad for women:
1. It places a restriction on a woman’s right to have an abortion, taking the decision away from a woman and her doctor and putting it into the hands of complete strangers in government. I mean, that’s the big one, really.
2. It’s based on bad science. Twenty weeks is offered as the time at which a fetus begins to feel pain, and that’s not the case. Neurological wiring simply isn’t sufficiently developed at that point. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists says there is
no legitimate scientific information that supports the statement that a fetus feels pain.
3. It violates Roe v. Wade, which protects a woman’s right to choose up to the point of fetal viability.
4. It requires an ultrasound, and while it doesn’t specify whether that ultrasound be transabdominal or transvaginal, it takes that decision away from the medical professional who’s actually standing in the room with the woman.
5. It requires a 24-hour waiting period (except in case of emergency endangering a woman’s life or threatening “irreversible impairment of a major bodily function”).
6. Twenty weeks into a pregnancy is also 20 weeks left in the pregnancy. A woman who has to delay needed medical treatment–for instance, chemotherapy–for those five months could end up severely ill or dead.
7. Dr. Gunter notes that 20 weeks is pretty much the minimum for being able to diagnose many fetal abnormalities, leaving a woman frantic to find services in Arizona or forced to leave the state for an abortion.
8. The factors taken into account during the drafting of this bill, listed as “findings and purposes” under Section 9, include the risk of psychological complications after abortion. The American Psychological Association has established that this is pretty much not the case, and that most psychological complications post-abortion are more related to pre-abortion mental health than they are to the abortion itself. Doctors also are instructed to offer patients information about putting a baby up for adoption, but are not instructed to offer information about the mental health risks thereof.
9. Those findings also note the higher medical risk of abortion as pregnancy progresses, up to one death per 11,000 abortions after 21 weeks. They omit the fact that the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is 24 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, or 2.64 per 11,000.
10. The bill places a restriction on a woman’s right to have an abortion, taking the decision away from a woman and her doctor and putting it into the hands of complete strangers in government.
HB 2036 is infuriating enough with all the facts straight. HB 2036 isn’t bad because it makes a woman pregnant before she’s pregnant–it’s bad because of everything else.”
Well considering all that “everything else” is really no different than what’s wrong with any other bill, the reason we focus on the false age thing is because it’s so blatantly fucking stupid, it’s so amazingly stupid that I almost had a trigger attack from how phenomenally fucking stupid it was, and shows just how hard they’re willing to try to rip away at women’s rights. Also the fact it effectively bans abortions for the majority of women getting them - because they base the “gestational age” on the last known day of bleeding, but many women on birth control do not have such regularity.
[edit] Oh but the breakdown is still a very wonderful thing to add.
