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I'll say this.

We agree on the existing problem but our conclusions are vastly different.

Since you apologized initially, I want to extend the same courtesy—I apologize if my first response came across as aggressive.

I'm not speaking on who you voted for or support politically because I don't have that information, so what I am saying may not apply to you personally.

However, as a staunch pro-choicer, I brought up policy issues and the actions of anti-abortion activists in my initial response because, while many in the movement frame abortion as a strictly moral issue, the policies they support often have real-world consequences that cause harm.

I'm talking about creating policies to criminalize having access to abortion medication or to give someone the death penalty for getting an abortion.

It feels inconsistent to argue that abortion access commodifies women when many anti-abortion policies and actions also contribute to the commodification of women. I am not saying that no man has ever pressured a woman to get an abortion for his own selfish reasons. I am not saying that was the intent of your words, but it was how they appeared.

I see this pattern frequently—especially among anti-abortion women. The same people who claim abortion "goes against women's biology" or "destroys motherhood" often have nothing to say when abortion-prohibitive states have significantly worse maternal outcomes for both women and babies (or will blame the doctors for following abortion-prohibitive policies).

Which brings me to your response.

If abortion allows men to commodify women's bodies then what do abortion-prohibitive policies, which are implemented by men a majority of the time, do? Especially when these are the same men who are openly complaining about women not birthing enough workers?

And these are the same people who are cutting programs that women and children depend on right now. I'm an American woman too. Medicare is literally about to get slashed, which will hurt women and their kids, and the "pro-life" politicians are defending it.

What do adoption agencies - which have ties to anti-abortion groups, that make thousands of dollars off of babies that women have given up do? That's not commodifying women's bodies?

Your argument suggests that if women have no way to terminate a pregnancy, men will be more sexually responsible. But history shows that's simply not true.

Many men are indifferent about getting someone pregnant. Statistically, the most common perpetrators of violence against pregnant women are their own romantic partners. So, where would this culture of "sexual responsibility" come from and how would it be applied equally to men and women if women are out here getting killed by the men who impregnate them? I don't see a "culture of sexual responsibility" coming anytime soon.

Yes, it would be great if men were encouraged to be more "sexually responsible." But the burden of that responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on women, particularly in anti-abortion spaces. Women are told they must be responsible for avoiding pregnancy to avoid being forced into childbirth—while the same message is rarely applied to men.

I rarely see "pro-lifers" put even half as much energy into admonishing men for being sexually active. Instead, I’ve seen them—both men and women—direct far more outrage at women who engage in consensual sex outside of marriage. Which is odd, considering marriage doesn’t prevent unwanted pregnancies.

And abortion-prohibitive states consistently have higher teen pregnancy rates—not just because of conservative approaches to sex education, but also because multiple attorneys general have actively fought to preserve high teen birth rates by restricting access to abortion medication.

Mind you, most teenage girls who become pregnant are impregnated by adult men.

All this energy is spent manipulating policy to further restrict female bodies, when male bodies are the ones spraying sperm everywhere.

The only time that I remotely see women in the anti-abortion ever remotely admonish a man for his behavior is when he is pressuring a woman to get an abortion - something which pro-choicers also oppose.

Again, I’m not saying you personally are responsible for these policies, but the movement you align with has a deeply contradictory approach to sexual responsibility. And that’s my core concern.

I’m not trying to change your mind or restrict your right to free speech.

I personally consider abortion to be anti-feminist due to the fact it allows men to not be held responsible for their irresponsible actions of sleeping with a woman they have no intention of loving or providing for. It allows men to treat women like commodities with no consequence.

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The End of a Dream (c.1908) by Giuseppe Pennasilico

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You're so right. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term will totally make a man be more responsible.

It's not like women have had children only for their fathers to abandon them. In fact, It's not like forcing someone to use their body for nine months to birth children commodities women at all.

It's not like there aren't entire adoption agencies who make money off the babies that women from low-income have after anti-abortion activists pressure them to do so.

It's not like anti-abortion activists themselves - women in particular, have platformed men to talk about how abortion access is bad for the economy. Nope! Totally fake.

It's not like there are politicians who have gone on stage and openly called women "childless cat ladies" and said that they want more babies.

It's not like billionaires and their literal mothers have complained about the declining birthrate and how women aren't birthing enough workers or literally argued that women don't have to afford the children that they have.

And it's not those same billionaires have over ten kids with multiple different women and repreatedly ignore their mothers with matter concerning that child. Yeah, like this totally isn't Grimes trying to get Elon Musk's attention on Twitter after he's been dodging her calls since their child is sick.

It's not like there aren't literal laws in effect in abortion-prohibitive states that make having abortion medication with a prescription a crime and punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Nah that's totally to control the men, you see. 😃

It's not like repressive regimes across the world in countries like Russia have banned "childfree propaganda" in order to crack down on women's freedom of speech and expression if it doesn't align with their political ambitions.

But you're right. Access to abortion is what's commodifying women and their bodies and the anti-abortion side is against all that and is very much pro-feminism.

Everything that I just listed isn't happening at all.

I personally consider abortion to be anti-feminist due to the fact it allows men to not be held responsible for their irresponsible actions of sleeping with a woman they have no intention of loving or providing for. It allows men to treat women like commodities with no consequence.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. — ProPublica

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.

The surge in this life-threatening condition, caused by infection, was most pronounced for patients whose fetus may still have had a heartbeat when they arrived at the hospital.

ProPublica previously reported on two such cases in which miscarrying women in Texas died of sepsis after doctors delayed evacuating their uteruses. Doing so would have been considered an abortion.

The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years, which ProPublica used as a baseline to avoid COVID-19-related distortions. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas.

ProPublica’s analysis is the most detailed look yet at a rise in life-threatening complications for women losing a pregnancy after Texas banned abortion. It raises concerns that the same pattern may be occurring in more than a dozen other states with similar bans.

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So, I am seeing some people on the left react to Hakeem Jeffries' weak response to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's political decisions.

For those of you who don't know what I am referring to, the TL;DR of this is that Hakeem Jeffries recently addressed the public saying that the Democrats have no leverage because Republicans control three branches of government and Trump and Elon's policies. At one point, Jeffries asks "What leverage do we have?" and this clip has pissed off a lot of leftists and liberals who are frustrated by the Democrats' weakness at this time.

While I 100% agree that saying "What leverage do we have?" is very defeatist and not helpful, I do not like the way people are so quick to suggest black women, particularly Jasmine Crockett, take over his position as Minority Leader in the House of Representatives.

If this country didn't want a biracial black woman white one black parent to be the president of the United States to avoid this exact situation, why the fuck are y'all suggesting that a monoracial black woman be put even further into the political crosshairs when she already has a set amount of responsibilities, and to address a political situation that she A) did not cause, B) warned against to begin with and C) did not ask to be the face of opposition to?

This country couldn't even tolerate Harris running for president and people picked her apart for everything from her racial heritage to her looks to her laugh, and y'all want Crockett to do the same when she already has to put up with racist attacks from conservatives.

She didn't ask to be a leader in the Democratic Party so why are y'all suggesting she take Hakeen Jeffries' spot - and all of the political heat related to that position?

If you didn't want a black woman to be represent you, don't treat us like we are only good enough to clean up your messes after everything goes sideways.

Yes, this government 100% sucks.

However, this entire situation could have been avoided and it is not black women's job to fix it.

I do not want to watch another black woman be put on a glass cliff to save this fucking country, when she warned people about this well before the 2024 election and a majority of voters chose Trump anyway.

So many people wanted the mass deportations, the abortion bans, the crackdown on LGBT+ existence, the rollback of protective agencies meant to help their broke asses, the cuts to social programs that they benefit from, etc.

They said it was for cheaper groceries but let's be real - this whole re-election of Trump was always about punishing people they didn't like.

And majority of this country wanted all of this chaos that is happening as long as a woman who is half black and half south-asian wouldn't sit in that oval office.

For those of you on the left, at least do black women the dignity of not pushing one of us to be the "face of the resistance" and to clean this whole mess up, especially when she didn't ask for that particular role.

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This blog also hates Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Hoebert and Nancy Turkey-Neck Mace.

I wish them nothing but the worst.

this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

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I would also like to add that this is from the same group of white people who literally argued that COVID-19 was a hoax and used black people's historical mistreatment in the U.S. medical system - specifically the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, as justification as to why they shouldn't "be forced" to get the vaccine.

So let me get the straight.

Black people are so vulnerable that you have to co-opt our experiences to justify your own ignorance around a vaccine

...but we're also so strong that we don't need vaccines at all - because you decided that for us?

Which is it?

One facet of racism is that people take the false logic of it and twist it to suit their needs.

You don't get to say that you are pro-life if you are perpetuating the idea that black women, especially those of us who are pregnant, feel less pain their non-black counterparts.

You also don't get to say that you care about black people and our experiences if you are trying to make medical decisions for us based on a Mayo Clinic study from 2014.

Why the fuck is RFK saying that black people should be on a different vaccination schedule than whites because "our immune systems are stronger?"

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This lie is intentional.

It's bad enough that the anti-intellectualism is kicking Trump supporters' asses, and that led to so many people showing their whole assessment to service workers and medical professionals during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's another thing when you drag black people - the racial group that I belong to, into your bullshit.

You conservatives are the same people who say that black women don't feel as much pain as other races.

I am not listening to you fuckers.

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Why the fuck is RFK saying that black people should be on a different vaccination schedule than whites because "our immune systems are stronger?"

Source Link Here

This lie is intentional.

It's bad enough that the anti-intellectualism is kicking Trump supporters' asses, and that led to so many people showing their whole assessment to service workers and medical professionals during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's another thing when you drag black people - the racial group that I belong to, into your bullshit.

You conservatives are the same people who say that black women don't feel as much pain as other races.

I am not listening to you fuckers.

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I warned people about this a while ago.

As abortion bans become more commonplace and strict, especially under the Trump administration, be prepared for more women to be the "friendly faces" of the anti-abortion movement and act like the policies that they are inflicting on other women are for their benefit.

The men draft and sign the anti-abortion legislation, but the women are the foot soldiers for the movement.

Not extreme conservative, mysogynist women starting to use feminism as their reasoning for banning abortions💀💀💀

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For all the anti-abortion activists who were defending Brittany Watts being arrested, I hope that you (and your children) choke on your lies.

For context, Brittany Watts is a black woman who lives in Ohio and was arrested for "abusing a corpse" - something that "pro-lifers" justified and defended (and I know this because I dragged some of you just for that).

Ms. Watts is now suing the city of Warren because the the two nurses named in the suit, Connie Moschell and Jordan Carrino, lied in order to get Brittany arrested and sent to prison.

Source Link Here

These two nurses lied on this black woman, telling the hospital faculty and the police that there was a live baby in that woman's toilet, and Brittany almost was incarcerated for that.

In reality, her pregnancy was nonviable and because this was a religious institution, they delayed care as long as possible - which made Brittany go home to have her miscarriage in the first goddamn place.

Where are all the "pro-lifers" who claim to care so much about black people's wellbeing?

Where are all the "pro-lifers" who spent years admonishing black women for getting abortions?

Where are all the "pro-lifers" who cry, scream and throw up about Margaret Sanger but have nothing to say when two of your nurses almost get a black woman sent to prison because they LIED?

Where are all the "pro-life women" who talk about how they've gotten abortions and that they would never get another woman arrested for making such a choice?

As a matter of fact, where are all the "pro-life leftists" who claim to care so much about anti-racism and creating better reproductive experiences for minorities?

While we're on that, where are all the black "pro-lifers" who were DEFENDING those nurses who lied on Brittany?

I distinctly recall arguing with one of you and I believe you said that were sorry the nurse "cared enough" to call the authorities on her.

Going into this Trump presidency, I don't want to hear shit from you people about how much you care about the black population or the black race or how evil Planned Parenthood is or the pro-choice side hates minorites.

I hope that any suffering or negativity that this woman has experienced falls on you ten thousand times over.

You 100% deserve it.

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I recall saying these anti-abortion groups want to replace real medical professionals and it is validating to hear that other people are aware.

I also want to remind people about the ProPublica report showing how Crisis Pregnancy Centers misuse the funds they are given by the government. This took place in Texas.

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For every mythical dollar the anti-abortion activists say we spend on abortion (which doesn't even happen), we spend way more money for these people to run fake clinics, and it doesn't even go to the pregnant women they claim to want to help.

Is anyone else just... exhausted?

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I have a question.

If orcas have been known to knock over boats, how do they handle that in the DC universe?

Does Aquaman call an HR meeting or smth?

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I just need Dan Mora to draw a really good Nightwing-based porn comic. Like, why is his rendition of Dick Grayson so sexy?

Who is this for? 🤣

Can we talk about Nightwing drawn by Serg Acuna and Dan Mora???? HELLO SIR

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A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.

Kitties will be kitties 🐈‍⬛

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