rabbleprochoice:

face-down-asgard-up:

asgardian-feminist:

“I’m pro-choice, but-“

yes

please stop

shut up. shut up. shut up.

but what? but you would never? that’s nice. i don’t give a fuck. what you would personally do in the event of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy has no place in a conversation about universal reproductive rights for people.

so when you start with your “but..” take a moment and shut the fuck up. because what i hear when you start with that shit is but i would never get one because i am not on of those irresponsible/lazy/stupid/immoral people. you don’t need to justify your choice to me or anyone else and that’s the point. i don’t care what you would do. it’s not my business and it’s not moving the conversation forward.

I can’t stand when people put qualifiers on their pro-choiceness. It’s not necessary.

I don’t give a shit if you’re pro-choice but personally pro-life. I don’t give a shit if you’re pro-choice but only when abortion isn’t used as birth control.

When you put qualifiers on your pro-choiceness it’s usually because you don’t want other people to think you are one of “those” people who get abortions because you don’t think you could ever BE one of “them” and you don’t want anyone else to, too. You want people to think your morality is still intact because you are somehow above abortion.

Except getting an abortion is not something that should be used to judge a person’s moral character. And when you think that it is, you feel the need to put qualifiers on your pro-choiceness because god forbid someone else think you might be the kind of person who may have had or would have an abortion.

Putting qualifiers on your pro-choiceness is just another way to other people who get abortions; it’s just another form of shaming. Even if you don’t mean for it to be.

Love,

Rabble

feminist-space:

Stfu Hypocrites: 4,000 people.

clevergirll:

the-womanifesto:

Today we had the the pro-life group out on campus with 4,000 little white crosses to represent the 4,000 abortions that occur each day.

You really do nothing at all by setting up some crosses and a booth where you pretend that you’re really bummed out that these potential people didn’t actually happen. Why don’t you try focusing on the people who are actually here and suffering and dying and not living full and potential lives? REALLY make a change in a LIVING person’s life and save the ones who are about to die because they don’t have clean drinking water or because they are abused or they are hungry.

That’s the problem with these pro-life groups. They spend so much time on people that don’t exist and not enough time on the one’s that are here. Once it’s out of the womb, you no longer crusade for its rights and well-being. You don’t worry about what will happen to it after its born.

And I know why that is. It’s easier. It’s easier to fight for a cause where you can automatically set yourself up for failure and it’s still ok because then you can just set up a memorial and blame other people for your failure. You don’t have to worry about looking someone in the eye and saying “I failed to help them” because you know that you’ll never have to face the ones you’re trying to help. It’s much harder to make a change in a real human being’s life. It takes so much more effort than sitting in a chair behind a table with some pamphlets. In the real world, trying to help a human being means doing more than giving a smile, a piece of candy and hoping for the best. “Pro-life” advocacy is slacktivism at its finest.

FINALLY someone articulates why the anti-choice chalkings on campus get under my skin so badly. Thank you.

Source: the-womanifesto

stfusexists:

Is getting an abortion the same thing as purchasing a firearm? Utah thinks so.

bigmouthlittlefists:

I’m not sure what the problem is here; A waiting period is a good thing. It is an important decision for THE WOMAN to make. So why not give them ample time to consider their options?

Unless these woman have anti-abortion pamplets cramed in their faces during the waiting period, it seems rather harmless and useful.

I know that you think you’re jumping in with some super insightful mansplaination here, but allow me to enlighten you a bit. First of all, medical procedures should not have waiting periods for non-medical reasons, especially time-sensitive procedures like abortion.

Second, could you be any more fucking condescending? Are you serious right now? If you honestly think that a woman is going in for an abortion and hasn’t “considered her options”, you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. No one skips into an abortion clinic and goes, “Oh wait, so after this I won’t be pregnant? I misunderstood because I am incapable of making serious decisions without some dude telling me to think about them more!”.

I’m really happy that you think that a waiting period is “harmless” and not a big deal, but as someone who will never experience an unplanned pregnancy, you have no idea what the hell you are talking about. Women have the right to make this decision and think about it on their own terms, without a legal mandate, and they do. Women are capable adults who understand the ramifications of their actions, they don’t need to be infantilized by politicians.

And if you still can’t understand why that’s not exactly “harmless”, do everyone a favor and stay out of the conversation. 

Seriously. And do you realize how few counties in the country even have abortion providers? So people have to be able to take off work (not always an easy thing to do) and travel sometimes very far (again not everyone has those resources)… and then be told to come back tomorrow?!

Fuck that.