#get assified

[mrlilrox]

Felt silly and decided to redesign my sona,

Old refsheet for comparison VVVV

[boneswriteswords]

The Lost Bottoms: Paul

Listen.

I’m not sorry. Not for this or the ones I’m writing for the other boys. 

NSFW warning. Soft Sub/dom shit. Pegging. 

Not my best work BY A LONG SHOT but whatever. Its content. 

~~~~~~

You and Paul rarely ever fought. Despite his seemingly endless energy, he was easy. Laidback. Chill. He rarely ever raised his voice in anger and he gave up on disagreements before they could go too far. The closest you had ever seen him to being snippy was when he was hungry and even then, it was never more than a snide comment. 

In the first month of hanging out with him, you quickly ascertained that he didn’t like direct conflict. He had no issues with fighting on the boardwalk when Marko or David inevitably started something with a security guard or the surf nazis. He’d be the first to jump into a dogpile to fight alongside his brothers. He was one of the first, if not the first, one to descend upon unsuspecting victims when hunting. He had no problems inserting himself into situations that were not directly related or influenced by him.  

But when it came to arguing with you or his brothers, he backs down. He does not like to feed and acknowledge discontent, preferring to ignore the problem until it sorts itself out. If one of his brothers raises their voice, he quiets his own. He will soothe and placate as best as he can. If all else fails, he will remove himself from the situation entirely, hauling himself bodily out of the immediate area. 

As months went by and the closer you got to Paul and his brothers, you started noticing that he would look at you when tensions were high. When his brothers were yelling at him or yelling at each other, he’d shift closer to you. If he was uncertain, he’d wait for you to respond or delegate. He put your opinion and direction over his own. He’d bend ass over tits if you had a bad day.

Underneath it all, you could see something was stewing inside of him. You never commented on this behavior or the weird look he would get on his face when he thought no one was looking. His brothers didn’t either but they understood him better than you did. Vampire connection and all that. 

But you should have said something. 

Because every couple fights. Every couple disagrees. It’s a given. Sure some fight less than others but there will always be disagreements and arguments. You cannot spend your life with someone without clashing a couple of times.

And clash you did. Paul, for the first time since you met him, got angry, bubbled over and scalding. In turn, you got angry. Together, you collided. You didn’t let him run when he started getting quiet, trying to diffuse the situation and he didn’t let you divert the topic at hand when it made you uncomfortable. Words pin wheeled back and forth. It was a messy and unexpected and neither of you were prepared for the emotional blow by blow.

However, because of Paul’s peacemaking and relaxed nature and your inability to stay mad at him for any period of time, the argument fizzled out and open communication was had. The matter was resolved and you learned something very interesting.

Because, as it turns out, Paul is capable of creating perfectly valid arguments with a buttplug in his ass.

“No offense,” you said, tone as conversational as you could make it with this new knowledge, “but why are you like this?”

Paul grins, stretching across the bed like a lazy cat as he tosses his fishnet shirt and leather pants to the floor, the hedonist that he is. “Babeeee, don’t you wanna see my shiny new toy?”

You grimace, “Please don’t call it that.”

Paul’s grin widens as he whispers “Its an assifier. A pacifier for my ass.”

You close your eyes, brows scrunched as he cackles at his own joke.

After a solid five minutes of cackling, he calms, staring up at you with manic glee. He must see something in the line of your shoulders because he sobers up, baby blues gazing at you.

“Hey Paul?”

“Yes babe?”

“Show me what you did to yourself.”

He whimpers out a curse, already falling into his desired headspace, and rolls over on his hands and knees. He arches his back and you can see the dark base of the plug between his cheeks. You let out a shaky breath, the sight enough to send waves of heat to your core.

“Baby boy,” you coo, kneeling on the bed on one knee, hand reaching out to stroke his back. He trembles under your touch. “Baby boy, I need you to tell me what you want tonight. You gave me such a pretty gift.”

“I want the pink one.”

You cock your head, a smile twitching the edges of your mouth. The pink dildo was the biggest one in your set.

“Feeling empty?”

Paul mewls, stretching his legs out farther and pushing his ass out, “Wanna be full of you.”

You knew that the residual effects of your very first argument as a couple was heavy on him. The tenseness in his shoulders told you how much he needed you to reaffirm that you loved him. He craved your body on his, covering his own.

Paul wanted to be vulnerable and on display for you. 

You loved him.

“Okay honeybabe. Okay,” you murmur, shifting to grab the necessary items from your trunk of playtime fun toys. You set them next to his head, letting him see your strap and his requested pink dildo. His eyes traveled from them to you as you stripped out of your clothes, hands reaching for him every few moments so he could feel your closeness. 

The strap slides on and you click the dildo in place. The bed dips as you slide behind Paul, hands reaching out to stroke along his back as he pants. You reach over and untie the red cloth from the headboard, sticking it in Paul’s left hand, grabbing the lube he keeps under the pillow afterward. Normal Paul was loud. Subspace Paul wasn’t. The red cloth alleviated the pressure from the lack of communication. 

“Check in,” you murmur, leaning over him to look him in the eyes. He was slipping fast, if the relaxed and open-mouthed expression were any indication. His eyes were cloudy, far away, and you knew he was floating. “Baby, you have to check in.”

“Yes, please, baby,” he replies dreamily, his body undulating like a snake. “Please, I wanna be good.”

“Okay honey,” you murmur, pressing kisses to the side of his face. You move his legs further apart, stroking up and down the backs of his thighs lightly as you adjust him. Snapping open the cap to the lube, you rubbed a good amount onto your fingers.

Paul shivered, little ‘ah-ah-ahs’ escaping his open mouth, and your core throbbed.

“Poor baby,” you coo, dipping your lube-wet fingers down Paul’s crack to trace the slick, stretched rim where the plug disappears, “you couldn’t wait to get something inside of you.”

Paul groans, rolling his body to shove his ass closer to your hands for more friction, “Mhmm...was empty. Missed you. Always miss you in the day. Needed to feel you.” HIs voice was a whisper, like he was sharing a secret. You rub against the skin a little harder and his body shudders.

He is beautiful, you couldn’t help but think, breath hitching as he pants into his pillow. So responsive with the slightest of touches and all for you. You lean over him, pressing little kisses along his back as you nudge at the toy, gripping the edge of it between two wet fingers. 

The hand not holding onto the cloth reaches out and grips onto your free, dry hand. You watch with bated breath as Paul brings your hand up to his mouth and catches your fingers between his lips, gentle and wet. His face twists in discomfort as you ease the plug out of him, his tongue darting between your fingers like silk. 

A twist of heat corkscrews up your spine at the way his hole clenches around nothing, overwhelming in its intensity. Your fingers fall from his mouth as you place the plug onto the bed and slip two of your lube-slicked fingers inside of him. You kiss against his lower back again, slipping a third finger in for the extra stretch. 

Paul seems to be content letting you ease him open, coddling his body with soft touches and kisses and words as he melts under you. You thrust your fingers lightly, barely removing them from the tight heat of his body and more little ‘ah-ah-ahs’ fall out of him. You rub against his prostate every third thrust just to hear him whine. Your thighs are damp with your own slick.

“Baby, baby, baby please,” Paul whispers after several minutes, “Put it in me. I want it. Want you to fuck me.” 

You waste no more time. You remove your fingers from his hole and shift up onto your knees behind him. Paul adjusts, opening his legs wide, arching his back just-so. Grabbing the lube, you slather a layer onto the pink dildo before tossing onto the bed somewhere. You rub the tip against his shiny hole before pushing in with devastating slowness.

Paul’s mouth drops open in a silent moan, head thrown back as he takes you in. His hips start rocking instantly, trying to fuck himself on your cock but you still his hips so he can’t sink all the way down. The dildo he chose was always hard to adjust to and you were not about to let him hurt himself.

“Fuck...fuck...” he whimpers, “Fucking....big, damnit. God dammnit. So big. Fuck me. Fuck me baby. I need it all.” 

And you do, guiding the rest of the cock into him until you bottom out. You start off slow, easing his body open with small thrusts before adjusting to fuck him harder. His mouth hangs open, breathing heavily in between whimpers and whines as you abuse his prostate. At some point, he lifts his head back up to look at you over his shoulder - something you know to mean that he needs to shift.

Paul gets lost in subspace sometimes and he needs to be reassured that its you with him and all of it is real. 

You lean over on the next thrust, your hand reaching out around his throat and guiding him up until he is sitting on your cock with his back against your chest.  His weight settles onto your lap, his thighs bracketing yours and the end of the dildo that wasn’t inside Paul was pressed up against your clit in the most delicious of ways. 

“Take it honey,” you grunt as one of your hands reaches up to grab his hair and yank his head back. “Fuck yourself on my cock. God, you feel so good. So fucking good.”

Paul clenches around the dildo, moving his body up and down while you meet him thrust for thrust. Your hand, the one not in his hair, trails down his chest, drawing little reverent patterns and flicking his nipples just how he likes. 

His cock is twitching valiantly against his belly as you fuck him and the choked noise he makes as you grip him sends a shudder through you. His thighs are taut as he lifts himself up and down and he throws his head back, throat bared for you to kiss along when he hits his own prostate. You see a flicker of fang before his head turns to capture your mouth with his.

You allow him to lick into your mouth, swallowing his whining whispered pleas for more, for harder. You murmur what a good boy he is against his lips. How much you love him. How much you want to see him cum all over himself.

It isn’t long before you both shatter. You pull away from his mouth to whine into the skin of his neck as you soak your thighs, hand tightening in his hair as he shoots into your hand and on his stomach. His body is a flex of muscle and fire as you fuck each other through the aftershocks, both of you breaking into millions of pieces and reforming. You are positive he can feel the swell of your heartbeat with each ragged breath you let out. 

You pulled out slowly, trembling. Paul whimpers as you separate from him and urge him up and off of you. You reach over to his hand and let out a sigh of relief to feel the cloth still in his hand. 

Paul lays on his back, his face tilted upward, peering at you through half-lidded eyes as he comes down. You leave the bed and detach the straps from your body, tossing the contraption away before rejoining Paul on the bed, enveloping him in your arms and kissing his face as your eyes swim with haziness.

“You did so well for me,” you coo as you stroke his sweaty hair away from his face, “but you always do, don’t you? My best boy. So good for me. I’m so proud.”

Paul preened under the praise, lifting himself up just enough to flop alongside you and tuck his face in your neck. His tongue darted out to lick a bead of sweat and he sighed.

“I-i know we apologized already but I...I just didn’t want to lose you,” he whimpers, clutching you tighter, “I didn’t want you to walk away and decided that I wasn’t worth it anymore. I-I...if it were possible, I’d go out into the sunshine and meet all your family. I’d give you a house and kids and a dog if you wanted. I’d get a job and give you everything. I’m so far gone on you. I’d do whatever you said I could as long as you wanted me and I could. ”

Your heart hurts at his admission. Jagged emotions jumble together, pushing outside of their edges and fighting for dominance inside your skin from all angles. 

“That - that would never happen honeybabe. I picked you. You picked me. You can tell me anything Paul,” you murmur into his hair as he nuzzles your throat, “Just don’t say it so quietly that I can’t hear. I know it wasn’t easy but I always want to hear you. This wasn’t easy. But....but this means that this hurdle is over. We are stronger now. We understand each other a little more. And when the next fight happens-” Paul whimpers at the idea - “we know how to handle it. We will get through it. I believe in us. I have so much more to say to you. Nothing is going to change that. ”

There is silence.

Paul shifts, pulling his head from its place in your neck to look you in the eyes.

“I have so much more to say to you too.”

~~~~

[shadowfromthestarlight]

If the law is an ass, you go through the process of de-assifying it. You don’t read things into the law that aren’t there. Particularly if the 'you' in question is a judge.  I have no idea how else to run a railroad, if by railroad you mean a constitutional democracy. There’s a deep corruption at work when legislators work from the assumption that the judicial branch should be in the business of cleaning up the legislative branch’s messes. Senators and Representatives leave a pile of messy dishes in the sink and then get furious at the judges for not washing them the way they want.

Jonah Goldberg

[kiranadhavmarketstudy]

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[roninlegislacerator]

What do you think of your planet? What about Trizza? You're crooked so I assume you have strong opinions.

Where is the idea that I’m crooked coming from? If you want crooked, ta/k to Gorjek.

As for your questions, it’s what I’m used to, so I have no other point of reference. A/ternia is what certain spacefaring races wou/d c/assify as a Death Wor/d, so growing up on it comes with a 30% morta/ity rate. And that’s before you get into the murders, sanctioned or otherwise.

As far as Trizza Tethis is concerned, I have the same opinion of her as any sane tro//. She scares me, and I try to keep my persona/ interaction with her to a minimum. 

[gamesdoneslow]

PlayLog - LoZ: Twighlight Princess (2006) #4

Hey Ganondorf is in this game!

I’ve crossed the threshold, passed my previous attempt, and am now in uncharted waters. The master sword is obtained, the fused shadows are gone (so much for that?) and a new 4-part collectable has reared its ugly head. Let’s talk about realism in videogames. 

Blades will Bleed - this phrase was featured in an E3 trailer for Twilight Princess in 2004, and has since become a bit of a joke in the gaming community, held up alongside “angry kirby” as an example of bad-assifying game properties for western audiences. Blade do NOT bleed in this Zelda game, much to the dismay of many a 12-year-old back in 2006. But I think the message had more to do with winning back a fanbase that was put off by the “Toon-link” design of Wind Waker, a game that history has held in much higher regard than Twilight Princess.  I mention all of this mostly because I beat the Arbiter’s Grounds dungeon last night, and I need to talk about where “Zelda for Adults” works and where it falters.

New poes suck - Arbiter’s Grounds is definitely an attempt at the scary dungeon, complete with a spooky backstory - an abandoned haunted prison with a bit of a mummy’s tomb vibe to it. Some of the creepy stuff works - it’s strange how desensitized I am to skeleton-with-scimitar, but little baby skeletons with scimitars, that freaks me right out. There are some clever touches like the ghosts rats, that only reveal themselves once you switch to doggo-assassin-view and realize that you’re literally covered in them. A cute surprise built around the mechanics, which I appreciate. Now about the Poes - this a good example of where I think TP’s “mature” aesthetic hamstrings itself some. They are creepy, in a ghost-of-christmas-future sort of way. Visiually though, they are a far cry from the glowing misty balls of doom I remember from Oot. The old poe’s  visual design may not have been scary, but it was iconic and cool, and added to the magical setting of the game. Much like the ghost rats, the tension came from needing to use mechanics to defeat them.

dun-Dun-DUN - dunnnn? - Now seems like a good time to talk about where I first fell off Twilight Princess back in 2006. The quest starts with Link trapped as a wolf; he needs the master sword to break his curse. “The master sword!” I thought, full of boyish enthusiasm. “This is where things get REAL! Blades will BLEEEEEEEEED!” - or something along those lines.  Remember, my previous experience with LoZ was Ocarina of time. In Ocarina, the master sword was key to the whole story. Three dungeons worth of web-burning, bomb-throwing, fish-hauling action had taken place JUST to get through the door, and once obtained it changed the entire game world into a Back to the Future 2 nightmare. By contrast, TP’s master sword is hanging out in the woods, guarded by skull kid and a block puzzle. Pulling it from the stone gave me the ability to use my gear again, and that’s about it. Midna whispers “The sword chose you!” or something, and I said “I wonder if the swords bleed in Okami.” Looking back on it now, I can appreciate that TP is not a beat-for-beat OoT remake. I’ve already remarked that this game’s story is a little bit subversive towards the LoZ formula, and I think that is ultimately to its credit. At the same time, it’s worth noting that OoT’s success had as much to do with its narrative strengths as its gameplay innovations, and that’s one area where I think TP is having a hard time measuring up. So far, anyway.

Games Done Slow is a play log where I record thoughts and criticisms through a game-design lens as I play new and old video games. More to come!

[prolifeisprowomen]

Abortion: A Systematic Oppression of Women

By Maggie Powell, 2016.

There is a false dichotomy that one is either for women’s success, or pro-life. This essay seeks to disprove this dichotomy by arguing that abortion is in fact anti-women. The topic of abortion is never discussed lightly. The political and moral implications cause the topic to be conversed in private and in muttered undertones. When it is considered, it is presented as a matter of women’s health care; a woman’s choice. However, upon deeper analysis, abortion is found to be yet another method of oppressing women, especially women of color. Our society argues that abortion is a necessary option for women who want a professional career, a satisfied family life, or other forms of success. If a traumatic, invasive procedure is necessary for a woman’s success, is there not something wrong with the society she lives in? Through examining the denial of maternal instinct, the sexual persecution of women, the health risks, the lack of informed consent, and racist motives, it can be deduced that abortion is a systematic oppression of women.

Abortion denies maternal instinct, for from the moment a woman knows that she is pregnant, she is a mother. South African pacifist Olive Schreiner wrote, “No woman who is a woman says of a human body, ‘it is nothing’” (Schreiner, 1978, p. 172). Maternal instinct falls into three main categories: preserving life, nurturing growth, and training children for social expectations and success (Ruddick, 1989). If it is the mother’s primary instinct to keep her child safe, then her “maternal non-violence” is denied through abortion. While she may be frustrated, alone, and subject to the “resentments of her social powerlessness”, a mother’s instinct is to choose nonviolence (p. 166). Ruddick writes, “This relationship [of woman and infant] is indeed marked, as the philosophers suspect, by the dissolution of boundaries—a living being inside another, emerging from another, a body feeding off another body” (p. 210). If women do not want to have abortions, why are they having so many?

Feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan interviewed many anonymous women who were seeking abortions for her study on the stages of female moral development. One anonymous woman said, “I felt like there were changes happening in my body and I felt very protective”. Even early on in pregnancy, a woman feels the defensive instinct of preservation. One of Gandhi’s pacifist theories was ahimsa, a philosophy that taught not to hurt any living thing. Gandhi pushed this philosophy even further by saying “Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them” (Ruddick, 1989, p. 170). Thus, the instinct of preservation is truth and must be achieved nonviolently. However, there is nothing simple in the commitment to nonviolence (Ruddick, 1989, p. 171).

Our society devalues a woman’s reproduction and denies feminine authority. It tells women “they are weak, that they cannot handle an unintended pregnancy” (Beaty, 2016). In contrast, choosing life is an ongoing intellectual act of seeing a child as vulnerable and responding to that vulnerability with a determination “to protect rather than to abandon or assault” (Ruddick, 1989, p. 135). Ruddick describes birthing a child as a commitment of oneself “to protecting the unprotectable and nurturing the unpredictable” (p. 209). Yet somehow our society finds weakness and dependence in femininity and strength and independence in masculinity.

Men erroneously control sexuality in today’s society through pornography, rape, and the overall sexualizing of women. Abortion is a strategy to put unequal responsibility on the woman and provide a cleanup alternative for the man. Instead of empowering women in their sexuality and reproduction, they are treated as irresponsible sexual objects with unwanted consequences. Nineteenth century feminist Mattie Brinkerhoff fought for women’s rights during the suffragist movement. She wrote, “When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society-- so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is evidence that either by education or circumstance, she has been greatly wronged” (1969). In a world where women are hyper sexualized and undervalued, society views and treats women as slaves to their bodies.

There are many similarities between rape culture and abortion culture. Rape culture is often considered the culmination of prevalence and silence. Abortion is not only medically violent, it partakes in the violently humiliating practice of shaming (Ruddick, p. 165). Abortion has a stigma that blames and taints the woman, and not the man. In addition, the defense mechanism regarding both abortion and rape are similarly that of self-blame, silence, and denial. When women become pregnant from rape and are forced or feel pressured to abort, they may be further traumatized (Coyle, 2015). In the case of pregnancy caused by sexual assault, there is no greater disrespect than assuming that further emotional and physical trauma through abortion will heal a rape victim. Philosopher Susan Brison writes:

Even those who are able to acknowledge the existence of violence try to protect themselves from the realization that the world in which is occurs is their world and so they find it hard to identify with the woman. They cannot allow themselves to imagine the victim’s shattered life, or else their illusions about their own safety and control over their own lives might begin to crumble (p. 10).

It is in the interest of everyone except the victim to continue believing that there is a simple solution in the case of rape. In regards to the argument that sexual assault justifies abortion, women must remember that:

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means rather that the evil act is no longer a barrier to the relationship…. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence…. Hate scars the soul…. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity (p. 174).

This quote, spoken by Martin Luther King Jr., is an attitude that holds true in all circumstances of oppression and injustice. This philosophy not only encompasses forgiving the violent act of assault, but forgiving the woman who has chosen to abort her child as well.

There is an undeserved humiliation in pregnancy (outside of society’s criteria), and the same against abortion. Women are constantly forced into appeasing social forces. Women should not be forced to choose between their education or career plans and suffering through a humiliating, invasive procedure and sacrificing their children. “We refuse to choose” is the motto of Feminists For Life. The idea that abortion is foundational to women’s power is offensive to all women.

One of the primary concerns with abortion involves physical and emotional danger. It is difficult to accurately analyze the risks of abortion because in the United States, there are no federal reporting requirements for abortion. In fact, the World Health Organization uses seven different methods to estimate mater­nal deaths and pregnancy status is not routinely reported on death certificates. However, some statistics draw frightening conclusions. Induced abortion is the 5th leading cause of maternal mortality in the U.S. (Calhoun, 2015). Women who have abortions are four times more likely to die within a year after birth than women who carry full term. The chance of acquiring breast cancer is two times higher, and even higher after a second abortion. Women are more likely to get liver, ovarian, and cervical cancer. Other physical side effects are endometritis, excessive bleeding, uterine ripping, endotoxic shock, and infertility.  Most people are unaware that abortion threatens future pregnancies by possibly ectopic pregnancy and preterm deliveries (Fears, 2010).

Additionally, and often overlooked, are the extreme emotional and psychological consequences of having an abortion. Some of these side effects are emotional paralysis, sleep interruption, nervous disorders, and need of psychiatric medication. Reportedly 1/3 to 1/2 of all women who have abortions face sexual dysfunctions, both physical and emotional (Fears, 2010). With so many notably dangerous risks and the vast discrepancies in reporting, abortion should not be promoted as a safe and peaceful solution for women.

A supplementary problem with the abortion industry is a lack of educated consent and/or coercion. Women are not properly informed about the realities of an abortion. Multiple cases have been uncovered in which women were told that their pregnancy was nothing more than a clump of cells, which can easily be scientifically disproved. "Most women considering an abortion would deem the impact on the fetus relevant, if not dispositive, to the decision," (Bazelon, 2007). Just like with any medical procedure, women deserve to know potential adverse effects of proposed procedures and available alternatives (Assifi, 2016). Coercion is also a common injustice, often regarding minors. “In a study of adolescent abortion, 18% of those minors whose parents found out about their pregnancies from a third party felt they were forced to abort and 6% of that same subset reported subjection to physical violence” (Coyle, 2015). In the situation of sex-trafficking, traffickers usually do not allow their victims to be given health care unless it is for abortion, in which case, the abortion comes out of the woman’s “debt” to her pimp.  In the United States sex trafficking market, pregnant women are in demand due to consumer fetishes. As a result, these women are forced to carry their pregnancies almost to term and are then forced to abort (Coyle, 2015).

Moreover, “gendercide” is a term coined for abortions that are selected and performed based on the gender of the fetus. In 2014, U.S. President Jimmy Carter observed in his book on women’s rights, that over 160 million fetuses have been aborted because they were female (Carter, 2015). At the Fourth World Conference on Women of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 1995, “prenatal sex selection and female infanticide” were included in their official definition of “violence against women” (Coyle, 2015).

Abortion disproportionally persecutes women of color. While African Americans comprise only 13% of the American population, they account for 37% of abortions (Operation Rescue, 2016). Abortions performed on Hispanic and Black women are more than double their percentage of the population. The majority (80%) of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in centers of minority communities and neighborhoods, targeting minorities for abortion. An anonymous young black women said, “There’s that pressure that society puts on you, and the way society treats people who get pregnant young or unintended, especially if they’re of color…. You have to decide whether or not to get an abortion. Then you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t” (Dutton, 2014). This institution has an undeniable ethnic face. The percentages of abortions performed on ethnic women are double that of the white community. In 2009, 286,623 African Americans died in the United States. In that same year, approximately 420,000 African Americans had abortions. Consequently, abortion killed twice as many African Americans than all other causes combined and therefore is the largest predator of black lives in the United States (Abort73.com, 2009).

The social reality of this abhorrent violence against people of color can be deceptive. In her novel Maternal Thinking, philosopher Sara Ruddick writes:

Coming to know what violence does to one’s children and to oneself, as victim or perpetrator, and then casting one’s lot in solidarity with women who resist violence… is illuminated by the light of the peace that ought to be, by the promise of birth that violence destroys (p. 244).

Socially organized violence is misleading. Coming to know the truth requires admitting one’s own reticent response. Minorities in the United States, specifically African Americans, relentlessly face institutionalized racism and abortion is yet another method of oppression.

           To be pro-women is to be pro-life. The original feminists of the United States (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothy Day, Louisa May Alcott, and others) knew this instinctively. To ignore the harmful realities of abortion is when women fail each other. It can be difficult for feminists to recognize that abortion is anti-women, because it is harder to admit violence when it is committed by women. Yet it is not just women who need to recognize their idleness. All mothering “depends upon partners, friends, and helpers,” and every culture fails “to the degree that they leave mothers who must protect their children without protection” (Ruddick, p. 211). If today’s culture idealizes women as mothers but lacks care giving beyond gender and family roles, it will never be able to support a woman in pregnancy because it will leave her without security. Sister Joan Chittister wrote:

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed (French, 2015).

With nearly one in five pregnancies ending in termination, it is clear that society is not pro-women.

In conclusion, the debate of abortion can no longer go on, for it is perpetuating the oppression of women in our world. Denying women their maternal instincts and ignoring their sexual persecution in society is anti-women. Screening the health risks of abortions so as to coerce and pressure them to end a life is anti-women. Disproportionally targeting women of color to have abortions is racism, and it is anti-women. Often, and understandably, it is easier to take the position that life is private and one has the right to do with it as they please, but one must also accept the conclusion of his logic. That same logic was the foundation of slavery. Abortion is systematically oppressive, so women should join together and be pro-women, and be pro-life.

The miracle that saves the world… is, in other words, the birth of new human beings and the new beginning, the action they are capable of by being born. Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence… that found perhaps their most glorious and most succinct expression in the new words with which the Gospels accounts their “glad tiding”: “A Child has been born unto us” (Arendt, 247).

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