#my uterus my choice

[lenbryant]

Making it illegal to use the roads to travel to a free state is so authoritarian dictator.

[gamblersdoll]

stop telling these men “oh what if your mom/sister/daughter/wife/gf got raped and pregnant and need an abortion?”

just put it plain : “what if you cheated on your gf/wife and the affair partner got pregnant?”

because their answers will definitely change when it involves their reputation or money.

[dailyanypokemon]

It's that time again! The last time I made one of these posts, it was on a blog that doesn't exist anymore. xD Four years feels a lot shorter than it is.

Anyhow, if you are registered to vote in the US, please do so!

[lattekayy]

📢 Facts 🖕🏻

[dog-nature-fandoms]

Please support this petition. You can sign if you are an EU citizen. We need 1 million counting signatures in total. The petition is about being able to get an abortion is needed and/or wanted. Please share this petition.

[crippledwithrage]

DELETE YOUR PERIOD TRACKER NOW

They can use it to track if your cycle suddenly stops. If it does, then starts up again for any reason, (miscarriages, abortions, etc) you are under investigation for "murder".

Alternatives are paper calendars, alarms written in code, or a physical notebook. NO VIRTUAL TRACKERS.

!!HOW TO TRACK ON YOUR OWN!!

Your next cycle will start 28 days or so starting from the first day of your last cycle. Ex: cycle starts on Jan 1, next period will start 28 days from Jan 1,( aka Jan 21st. )

Learn how to make fabric pads online in case you need to avoid being seen in the sanitary item aisle (trans masc/men, queer ppl, etc). Tampons can also be made or bought online and shipped instead.

Start looking at birth control options like nexaplanon (small copay if not free at planned parenthood, lasts 4 years and is implanted in your arm). IUDs are more invasive but can last up to 8 years, (sits inside uterus and is inserted through cervical opening) both of these are legal in all states right now!

Stay safe out there!!!

[humnooshop]

No uterus, no opinion

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[asteria7fics]

i’m in a deep blue state but i don’t even feel 100% safe and confident that that will mean anything. it’s scary. i scheduled an appointment out of panic to get an 8 year iud in a couple days just in case he steamrolls our state laws. if they wanna take away my right to choose they can physically pry it from my cold dead uterus. sometimes i feel like i’m overreacting but then i don’t??? like so much is unknown right now and it’s terrifying. my heart breaks even more for vulnerable people in the red states. we really failed so many marginalized americans last night. horrible.

This feels like an appropriate time to tell you goobers a little story. Strap in, it gets a little personal.

When Roe v. Wade was overturned it felt like the final nail in the coffin for me. I had been on the pill for over a decade at that point, and while it helped a ton with managing my periods I also knew I didn’t want to be on the thing forever. I had also known since I was a teenager that I absolutely did not want to have children of my own.

So I did research, talked to my ob/gyn and got an appointment with a surgeon that I knew would be willing to perform a tubal ligation on someone my age (27 at the time). I found their name via this resource, and asked for them specifically.

So… yeah, I got sterilized.

Now I’m not going to sit here and say that this is the right choice for everyone. Though I’d looked into it for years prior, I knew the likelihood of being able to get this elective surgery was low if I attempted to before I turned 25. I’d heard so many stories of women being stonewalled by their doctors because they didn’t have children and “might change their minds”. I was extremely fortunate to have very good doctors.

I was scared shitless of going down for surgery, but I was even more scared of the possibility of not having a choice in becoming a parent.

But everything went fine. It was laparoscopic, so I only have two tiny scars and some really cool, high def pictures of my insides. The first week of recovery was uncomfortable, but the second week was fine. I actually started watching South Park during that second week, and… well, here we are.

I live in a state that, as it currently stands, has decently progressive abortion rights. That could change though. All I have to do is drive down the road to see how many people in my area voted against my rights and will likely do so again.

All of this to say, do what you feel is right while you have the choice to do so. An IUD isn’t permanent, so if you think you may ever change your mind and decide to have children I say go for it, panic response or not. I have zero regrets about my choice, and I would do it all over again if I had to without a second thought.

There is absolutely no shame in doing what you feel you need to in order to protect your lifestyle. Grandma Teri fully supports you, my dear anon.

[sprinklethetangerine]

cramps so bad I'm about to make the Tom & Jerry "YEOWCH" sound

[mollyjimbly]

Hullo so I just found out about cryptic pregnancy and I want to do a DIY hysectomy.

cryptic pregnancy sounds fucking terrifying to me especially If your expected to keep your surprise baby... like I Don't know how to be a mother. And now I've had it dumped on me with no prior notice.

Oh how I hate having a uterus.

[angry-snail]

It's been a year since my hysterectomy yahoo

[roguekhajiit]

Thought dump.

It's always men and pick-me chick's who are so confidently wrong on women's rights.

Especially the pick-me chick's who think that siding with the pro-life movement will make them one of the guys.

Like why, sis? You are voting against your own best interests. I hope you never have an ectopic pregnancy or incomplete miscarriage in a state like Texas.

Also, it's always women's bodies that these laws focus on. We can easily reduce the number of abortions in this country if all men were required to get a vasectomy at puberty and had to pass a test to prove they are ready for fatherhood.

But no, we can't do that. We'd be stripping them of their constitutional rights. Instead, let's imprison women for getting an abortion, investigate their miscarriage, and set terms on when they are allowed to get a tubal ligation.

It's never been about the fetus. Let's call that what it is, virtue signaling and smoke screens. Cause what this really is about is controlling women.

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Can someone explain to me why I was born with

1.) a pathological fear of all things regarding reproduction and human offspring AND ALSO

2.) a ridiculously detrimental reproductive organ to bleed from every single month of my adult life to remind me what a spiritual and biological fucking failure I am for not centering my life around reproduction and human offspring

bc I’m just wondering why I needed to be born with BOTH of these traits ?

[sunnywalnut]

Just a quick reminder to the people that doomed us all and our reproductive rights:

Reproductive rights includes anything having to do with reproductive organs.

This includes.

-birth

-stillbirth

-miscarriage(and also abortion where miscarried fetuses have to be removed in order to save the parent carrying.)

-abortion at any time, including within the first 6-8 weeks (when pregnancy shows almost no signs at all, and can even mimic mensuration, which is commonly a 4 week cycle. Bloating, cravings, nausea, swollen breasts, fatigue, etc. All of which are mensuration symptoms as well as pregnancy symptoms. It is also extremely common for a period to take a couple days, if not weeks to show up. Even in people with healthy reproductive organs and relatively regular cycles.)

-failing/painful organs(PolyCystic Ovary Syndrome, Endometriosis, dead uterus/ovaries, cancer, tumors, inhabitable uterus/ovaries that will kill the parent and fetus if a they are not removed, etc etc. And yes. This is a real thing. I have known people who have to live with dead organs inside them because of the government, insurance, and medical practitioner restrictions. Any doctor will tell you that living with a nonworking organ in your body is detrimental to your health. However, they are unable to step in under reproductive laws and restrictions to save lives.)

-inducing labor (including emergency inductions to save both parent and fetus, prevention of hemorrhaging, tearing, and death to parent due to an oversized fetus, or simply being overdue.)

-contraceptives and birth control. Including the pill and sterilization (which people also often use to regulate their cycles. Anyone with PCOS or anything similar who have to deal with full body, joint, and hip pain, extreme blood loss, anemia, iron deficiency, and much more will not have access to healthcare that could literally save them an ER visit or even their lives.)

-trans healthcare(HRT, top surgery, bottom surgery, reproductive organ removal/sterilization, birth control, and much more. Though I do realize that a lot of you who voted in favor of this don't really care about this aspect.)

-maternity care (hemorrhaging, tears, emergency C-sections, emergency labor inductions, epidurals, pain medications, death, etc)

And I am almost 98% sure that this isn't even all of it. Everyone who voted against reproductive rights voted against life.

Plain and simple.

If it were about the children, people would have stepped in to save the lives of those who were forced to carry inviable, unsafe, and deadly pregnancies to term, and to the grave. And in many cases, leaving both parent and fetus dead.

There was never people aborting children after birth. That is called murder and that is illegal for a reason. But they are absolutely not the same, no matter how much misinformation has been spread about the matter.

The lives that have been lost due to the lack of reproductive freedom in this country is large. It is far from finite. And in our society, where rapists can have proof stacked up against them, yet compete in the Olympics, run for president, and continue to make influential moves on the masses, there is no hope for exemption laws. Not even for children.

All of the well meaning people who have been fed lies, wanting to protect the children in need, have failed to hear us in our attempts to illustrate the bigger picture. Despite how much we've tried.

More people are going to die.

Maybe even people you know.

Maybe even you.

But the real question is, what are you going to do about it?

And as always, with large posts like this, my sources:

[krowkeeper]

If you love your daughters, mothers, aunts, sisters, cousins; anyone with a uterus.

You will vote to protect safe abortions.

Rape can happen to anyone.

Ectopic pregnancy can happen to anyone

At the 20 week ultra sound (where most abortions are illegal BUT where you find out how developed your baby is or is NOT) and find out your baby isn’t viable for life, can happen to anyone.

Abortion is healthcare.

Women do not just go through most of a pregnancy and think “oh welp, I’m done being pregnant now! Better go get an abortion!”

That does not happen. And IF it does. It’s very, very few and far between.

Keep abortion safe and legal.

[xxx-ang3l-w1th-a-sh0tgun-xxx]

the uterus GIF i made from the video i posted :)