When anti-choicers believe consent to sex is consent to pregnancy…
Last time I checked no one has the ability to define anyone else’s consent but the person giving or revoking consent…
I’m not American. Roe vs Wade didn’t give my fellow citizens the right to sovereignty over their own bodies. I’m from a place where these rights don’t exist and where an adult woman is valued only as much as a fertilised egg that implants inside her. I’m from a place where women are left to die in easily-preventable agony to serve the principle of ‘life’. A country that attempts to prevent suicidal children who have survived abuse only to become pregnant from leaving the country. Somewhere that forces women to carry their dead and dying fetuses to term against their wishes. A country that says that no risk short of a woman’s almost certain death is a valid reason to allow her to terminate a pregnancy- which is, by the way, largely to blame for the death of Dr Savita Halappanavar. No other risk to her health and well-being, no matter how severe, painful and permanent. Nothing but certain death.
I come from a country where the moment you become pregnant your life ceases to be your own and becomes the state’s. The only recourse we have- hundreds of thousands of women in a country of only four million citizens- is to leave.
” Blog for Choice Day 2013: Why I’m Pro-Choice (via flyingteacosy)
55 millions children have been aborted since 1973 through legal abortion. 55 million friends we could have made. 55 million babies we will never know. 55 million chances for one of them curing cancer or achieving world peace.
And we threw them away like they were nothing.Oh. And if you don’t care about the children, 28 million women have died from abortions.
In your self-righteous babies killed by abortion post you forgot to mention the millions of babies/children all over the world that are alive and being abused or neglected. They could be making friends. They could be curing cancer. They could achieve world peace. Instead of focusing on attacking a person’s rights and choices, you could be fighting for other people to be able to exercise their rights and do all these great things you dream of aborted fetuses achieving.
Why not them?
Another fun fact OP forgot to mention, how many of these women who died from abortion did so because they didn’t have access to safe and legal abortion? Or, OP, what do you make of the fact that childbirth is 14 times more deadly than legal abortion?
Also, stop with this, “they could have cured cancer!” BS. They could also be the one to develop new forms of germ warfare and eliminate half the world’s population. Don’t makes martyrs of aborted fetuses. And don’t ignore the fact that many people have abortions so that they may have the opportunity to go to college and learn the skills needed to develop the cure for cancer. There are plenty of people on the planet with potential who are far more valuable than the potential people who are aborted.
Sometimes I feel like the followers of this blog are much more articulate than myself…
55 millions children have been aborted since 1973 through legal abortion. 55 million friends we could have made. 55 million babies we will never know. 55 million chances for one of them curing cancer or achieving world peace.
And we threw them away like they were nothing.Oh. And if you don’t care about the children, 28 million women have died from abortions.
In your self-righteous babies killed by abortion post you forgot to mention the millions of babies/children all over the world that are alive and being abused or neglected. They could be making friends. They could be curing cancer. They could achieve world peace. Instead of focusing on attacking a person’s rights and choices, you could be fighting for other people to be able to exercise their rights and do all these great things you dream of aborted fetuses achieving.
Why not them?
Happy 40th, Roe.
So You Think Times Have Changed?
- Evy
I find myself at many tables discussing issues surrounding reproductive health, rights and justice; and I am often the only woman of color and the youngest at these tables. I am very fortunate to have such rich and open dialogue with individuals that are also fighting for reproductive rights. But there are also moments where I’d like to rip my hair out.
Every January the reproductive rights community highlights and celebrates the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling granting the right to abortion. And if I had a quarter for the number of times I’ve heard: “You youngin’s don’t know what it was like to not have access to legal abortions!” I’d be rich, or rather, richer.
While they are not wrong, it shows how far we still have to go.
Yes, I was fortunate enough to be born a few decades after Roe. But this reply strips me of why I do what I do, because of my age, regardless of my advocacy and education work – it strips me, as a woman of color, and other women, like my mother, aunts and cousins, whom continue to face barriers to accessing varied reproductive health services including abortion decades after the Roe decision.
The article, Women of Color Gain Electoral Influence, Lose Access to Health Care, states:
By 2050, people of color are predicted to constitute the majority of the population. Yet, due to high rates of poverty and historical disenfranchisement, women of color often face the most onerous barriers to reproductive health care. – PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1yus7)
Really, is access to reproductive health care that impactful? Well, Roe v Wade was passed in 1973 after the civil rights movement. Communities of color were challenging the systems that had for so long disenfranchised them from gaining access to equal opportunities in many arenas, such as education, health care, jobs, and, well, the list goes on.
Still, forty years later women of color continue to be in the margins. Women of color continue to put their reproductive health care on the back burner; services such as prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, as well as other preventative care and family planning services continue to be neglected. Today women of color still disproportionately face barriers to care because of travel costs, cost of daycare, missing work, less likely to have paid sick days and not having the money to afford their services.
I want to stress that Roe v. Wade is important to celebrate, but we also have to be critical about our “win” and ask ourselves: Have we settled? Is Roe v. Wade really about just abortion? Or is it about allowing individuals to make informed decisions about their reproductive health? And if so, what are we doing 40 years later to make sure that every single woman has the access to these services?
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Join us today, Tuesday, 22nd to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that recognized women’s fundamental right to abortion and discuss it’s impact on women of color. Email ana@colorlatina.org or evy@colorlatina.org or call 303-393-0382 with questions.
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive rights is located in Denver. You can find out more about our organization at www.colorlatina.org.
Find the full article mentioned above here: Women of Color Gain Electoral Influence, Lose Access to Health Care COLOR among other Reproductive Justice leaders are mentioned.
A quote I just read in relation to abortion. Very well put.
“Body Autonomy” or “Bodily integrity” is self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. You can’t be forced to give blood, bone marrow, or any part of you to another. You can’t even have them taken from you after you die without permission. The fact that you can save a life is irrelevant, nobody can forcefully take something from you.
Yet, there are people out there who believe 50% of the population *must* give up their body for 9 months, even if there’s risk of it killing them.
This is my new favourite “anti-choice folk are ignorant, sexist, idiots” argument.
(via justcarl)
This breaks my heart. Please reblog.
False.
This^ is what you look like at 12 weeks in the womb. This photo will not “save a life” - it only shames women who have had an abortion. And that’s not cool, bro.
Just so you guys know you cant use the same argument for abortion that you do for gay marriage: “If you dont agree with it dont get one”
Gay marriage is about love and that statement actually makes sense because it IS only about the consenting people.
Abortion is about murder…. and it ISNT only affecting the mother. It is affecting the father, the baby, future children of this woman, and MOSTLY the mother, since most women who get one wish later that they hadn’t.
There’s a huge difference between wishing you didn’t have an abortion and wishing you didn’t have to get an abortion and I feel like most anti-choicers often confuse the two.
