February 2012
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dansolomon:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Anonymous asked you:
5 years ago I had an abortion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to the abortion, the doctor administered a transvaginal ultrasound. She told me that it was to confirm that I was indeed pregnant and that to confirm that an abortion was necessary (eg the fetus had not naturally dislodged). She also said that so early into a...
Persons against the Personhood Act in Oklahoma →
teasymcgee:
obscenegestur:
You all better freaking reblog the shit out of this, or I’ll be mad at you forever.
Everyone everywhere should be against this.
Anonymous asked you:
5 years ago I had an abortion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to the abortion, the doctor administered a transvaginal ultrasound. She told me that it was to confirm that I was indeed pregnant and that to confirm that an abortion was necessary (eg the fetus had not naturally dislodged). She also said that so early into a pregnancy (7weeks) it would be impossible to do an...
Daily reminder: TEXAS - RIGHT NOW - HAS MANDATORY...
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Texas willing to throw 130,000 poor women under... →
feministfather:
Feministing article on the Texan GOP’s immorality.
KYBOOMU gets shout out at top of this article. Which is cool.
MORE COOL? That this is getting some bigger attention. Wonder if national media and larger pro-choice movement will spend some more energy on what is going down here in Texas.
Lest you forget, TEXAS ALREADY HAS MANDATORY TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS. And now this (on...
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If you are on Twitter, let's make some noise to...
I love Tumblr but I just don’t know how to use it mobilize.
But I know Twitter.
And so I’m starting there.
If you are on Twitter and you’d like to see more national media coverage about what is going on in Texas, let’s let the right people know:
@upwithchris (hashtag #uppers)
@mhpshow (hashtag #nerdland)
@maddow
@thereval
@edshow
@lawrence
@TheDailyShow
...
Daily reminder: TEXAS - RIGHT NOW - HAS MANDATORY...
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BREAKING NEWS: Texas lets 130,000 people (most of... →
stfusexists:
racetothestoneage:
stfusexists:
Texas has decided to violate federal policies concerning the Women’s Health Program of Medicaid, and has lost $40 million of federal funding towards reproductive health care in the process. Way to go Texas! Now you’ve produced Rick Perry, W, and THIS abomination of legislation.
Click through to see what this means for reproductive rights in...
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And now some good news: Personhood bill dies in... →
stfusexists:
According to this article at Feministing, the VA legislature has put off a vote on personhood for fetuses until after the election. Probably a smart move on their part if they don’t want to get voted out en masse. I’ll be keeping my eye on it come November, though.
Now if they would only get rid of this monstrosity…
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stfusexists:
BREAKING NEWS: Texas lets 130,000 people (most of them women) lose access to affordable reproductive health.
Texas has decided to violate federal policies concerning the Women’s Health Program of Medicaid, and has lost $40 million of federal funding towards reproductive health care in the process. Way to go Texas! Now you’ve produced Rick Perry, W, and THIS abomination...
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Texas just cut funding for the reproductive health... →
ereyes312:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
Reproductive rights are being dismantled at an alarming rate here in Texas. Can Amy Poehler do a segment about that on SNL? Can Jon Stewart do one on the Daily Show? Can we get some national media coverage of this? PLEASE!
Unless some last-minute agreement is brokered, the program, which receives $9...
Texas just cut funding for the reproductive health... →
FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
Reproductive rights are being dismantled at an alarming rate here in Texas. Can Amy Poehler do a segment about that on SNL? Can Jon Stewart do one on the Daily Show? Can we get some national media coverage of this? PLEASE!
Unless some last-minute agreement is brokered, the program, which receives $9 in federal funds for every $1 in state...
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“When the woman answered the door, she looked at my daughter and said, ‘We don’t...”
– Girl Scout troop leader Kim Douglas • Discussing a recent situation her 10-year-old daughter faced when going door-to-door to sell cookies. Douglas’ daughter, by the way, didn’t know what abortion was. “It left my daughter very shocked, confused,” Douglas said. “She said, ‘Mommy, something creepy...
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Girl Scouts Grow Up to Work... →
So, it’s come to this. Planned Parenthood has become such a monster to the rabid right, even the Girl Scouts of America are to be shunned because they have a tangential connection to PP. This is the hill Catholics want to die on? Contraception and Planned Parenthood. Really.
Anonymous asked: I guess that's better? Ugh, I hate everything.
Anonymous asked: So, the Virginia governor vetoed the transvaginal ultrasound bill, right? That's what I've gathered, but I've been out of the loop for a week or so, and I wanted to be sure before I delivered the (hopefully) good news to a friend at VTech.
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"Do you believe in birth control?"
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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Asked at tonight’s GOP debate. Like that is a real question. As if birth control is on same level as “unicorns” or “leprechauns”. Is birth control now a “theory” like evolution or climate change?
Also, it is 2012 or 1927?
In related thoughts, my head is sore from banging it into the wall.
I imagine it was just poor wording on the part of the...
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Also, the crowd BOOed birth control.
prolongedeyecontact:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
So, what are we at now?
BOOs for gay soldiers and birth control.
YAYs for the state killing people.
Thanks, GOP debates. I hate you so much.
Don’t forget they also cheered at the thought of letting someone die because they didn’t have health insurance!
Yes. Thank you. I had purposefully forgotten that.
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I watched the Republican debate on CNN tonight
jessicavalenti:
And all that kept going through my mind was this scene from PCU…
“You did not once during the 2008 campaign ask why Barack Obama voted in favor of...”
– Newt “I love ALL the women” Gingrich
Obama is such an asshole because he voted to protect the lives of people who are threatened on a daily basis for performing legal medical procedures that literally save people’s lives. The nerve!
Also, “infanticide”? Dude....
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"Do you believe in birth control?"
maehemsez:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Asked at tonight’s GOP debate. Like that is a real question. As if birth control is on same level as “unicorns” or “leprechauns”. Is birth control now a “theory” like evolution or climate change?
Also, it is 2012 or 1927?
In related thoughts, my head is sore from banging it into the wall.
Yes, birth control, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster....
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They should have asked, "Do you believe in life...
[h/t @tootwistedTV]
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Also, the crowd BOOed birth control.
So, what are we at now?
BOOs for gay soldiers and birth control.
YAYs for the state killing people.
Thanks, GOP debates. I hate you so much.
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"Do you believe in birth control?"
Asked at tonight’s GOP debate. Like that is a real question. As if birth control is on same level as “unicorns” or “leprechauns”. Is birth control now a “theory” like evolution or climate change?
Also, it is 2012 or 1927?
In related thoughts, my head is sore from banging it into the wall.
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I hate days like today where we are left celebrating the fact that the governor of a state decides not to support a law mandating government-sanctioned rape.
Yay?
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: Transvaginal Ultrasounds... →
i-am-septima:
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
I keep wanting to scream, “TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS ARE ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TODAY IN TEXAS!!!!”
Texas has THREE times as many people as Virginia AND they already have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions (I also have no hard data but…
I have a question. In Texas, I’m required to have a pap smear before I can get birth...
More on Transvaginal
I just added an update to my post from earlier in order to explain why Texas (where mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds are already happening) and Virginia are different from the states like Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, etc. that require an ultrasound before abortion.
From an interview on NPR with the amazing Dahlia Lithwick:
One thing about the Virginia law that makes it different -...
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Transvaginal Ultrasounds ARE ALREADY HAPPENING
I keep wanting to scream, “TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS ARE ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TODAY IN TEXAS!!!!”
Texas has THREE times as many people as Virginia AND they already have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions (I also have no hard data but I’m going to guess that Texas probably also has a much larger poor population and a higher percentage of minorities, both...
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Virginia governor no longer fully supports... →
iamtalkingback:
jessicavalenti:
Props to all the pro-choice activists in VA!
Oh, this is the best news I’ve heard all week. Of course, it’s kind of disheartening that I am relieved after hearing that the governor of my state “no longer fully supports” state rape. But I’ll take what I can get, right?
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ALSO ALSO ALSO
If you NEED contraception, Mr. Lowry REALLY needs to hear from you:
.@RichLowry, I WISH I was contracepted. #notlavish
Hey, are you on Twitter AND use contraception? Do...
Get on Twitter and tweet to Mr. @RichLowry, of the “by any reasonable standard, we are one of the most lavishly contracepted societies in the history of the planet” fame, the following:
.@RichLowry, I’m contracepted. #prochoice #fem2 #lavish #diamondIUDs
Earlier today I tweeted about how he was a “pompous, privileged asshole” because of the article linked above....
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#ProblematicVaginas →
You’re welcome.
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“By any reasonable standard, we are one of the most lavishly contracepted...”
– Rich Lowry (in the NY Post (taken from National Review), quoted in an amazing article by Irin Carmon)
First, what the fuck does “lavishly contracepted” mean?
Second, “contracepted”? Really, Lowry?
Third, we are making fun of this on Twitter right now using the hashtag...
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Reproductive Parts →
This is masterful, powerful writing. If you read one single thing today or even in the next week, it should be this post. I’ve already read it all the way through twice. I can feel the words crawling across my skin, making it tingle.
It feels wrong to even excerpt it because the entire thing is a force. You need to read the entire thing. But here’s a small piece:
A politician says...
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RICK SANTORUM WANTS TO PROTECT YOU! FROM THE EVILS... →
This entire piece is a Must Read.
I am so bloody tired of being used as a pawn by both the left and the right in reproductive rights rhetoric, I could scream. And in fact, I often do. The right tells us that they oppose bodily autonomy and choice because it would lead to abortion of “precious angels,” which is apparently code for “disabled people,” while the left, well, unfortunately often...