#pro life feminist

[egalitarianchica]

Attended the Ohio March for Life (my first March for Life ever) today!

[lilithism1848]

[woman-eternal]

I have to say this because no one else is, but getting ectopic pregnancy / miscarriage care is not illegal. Anywhere. It’s just not. So if you are suffering from an ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage just go to the doctor. If your doctor says “uh I’m not sure if that’s allowed” they are lying and that’s medical malpractice.

[lesbianlenses]

Pro choice rally, 1989, San Francisco. Phyllis Christopher

[they-are-a-prolife-autist]

Who the fuck are you to end someone’s life “for their own good,” before they’ve even had a chance to live it? You can really see into their future and get to decide with your God-like wisdom that they’re better off dead before they’re even born? Who died and made you judge, jury, and executioner? You really look around at people in poverty, or with disabilities, and think to yourself, “damn someone should have ended them a long time ago.” What in the ever-loving arrogant audacity.

[fawndleme]

it’s actually crazy to me that people try to argue against abortion ?? it’s not your body!! not your choice! dont wanna have an abortion? then dont!! why do you think you get to dictate what other women do to THEIR bodies.

[duchess-of-mischief]

It’s stuff like this that proves that it’s never really been about protecting women or their rights at all, it is solely because they want the ability to murder babies to remain legal.

At that point the baby is already born. You’re not “terminating a pregnancy”, the woman is no longer pregnant. This is straight up murder any way you look at it.

It’s disgusting

I have to wonder if kammy and pals realize exactly how ghoulish their opposition sounds.

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[thatgentlewife]

[ivygorgon]

[egalitarianchica]

Another great CLE graphic by FCLNY!

[lilithism1848]

[girlfishes]

In states with abortion bans, rape “exceptions”only serve to provide an ease of conscience to the men who make these laws and the people who vote for them. The nature of these laws makes it almost impossible for a rape victim to access abortion care. It’s just lip service and sympathy theater.

In Mississippi, in order for an exemption to be provided, a woman must report the crime done to her and serve the case papers to her doctor. This is a traumatic and difficult process, and many police stations only provide access to the case papers once the case is closed. This is a major barrier, because rape is almost never prosecuted appropriately in the United States, and the word of a man is always worth more than a woman’s in the eyes of the law. Most rape cases are never resolved. Also, reporting to the police can also make some domestic situations worse. (An example is given in the article).

In addition, the state often gives no guidance or provisions for the doctors, leaving them to fear that their license may be removed if they care for their patients in the “wrong” way.

And, in many southern states with these bans and exceptions for rape, no doctors are even trained in the procedure.

Rape exemptions send a message to women everywhere, and it is that pregnancy is a punishment for choosing to have sex. The only way women are allowed autonomy over their own bodies is if it was violently taken from them first.

Lawmakers will include rape exemptions in their abortion laws as a way to make them seem kind and compassionate towards women, but don’t believe them. They do not see you as an agent over your own life.

[hairtusk]

Andrea Dworkin, 'The Promise of the Ultra Right', in Right-Wing Women (1983)

[they-are-a-prolife-autist]

I feel people are intentionally missing the point of this post. My issue is not that some people find my views sexist. I do not care about that. Sure I feel it makes it obvious that people aren’t actually listening to my opinions and are just slapping a label on me without understanding what I am saying; but that’s not a big deal. People like things to be black and white. I get it.

My issue is the ableist and sexist slurs I get from people who claim to be pro-woman, but will send you death threats the second you politely disagree. It is hypocritical and dehumanizing. The sad thing is, it is what I have come to expect as the norm at least half the time from the opposing party. We’re all about listening to the voices of the suffering, right up until they contradict your agenda. Then it is “sit down and shut up, retard.” And no, it is not fine just because you are also autistic.

Someone who genuinely cares about the voices of women, the voices of survivors, the voices of disabled people, lgbtqia+, etc, would be able to hear opinions they disagree with from said voices, and still remain polite. If your reaction to minorities who disagree with you is to weaponize slurs used against them, you aren’t actually pro-that minority. You are using them to further your agenda and becoming aggressive when they do not meet your expectation.

Throwing around “retarded” “bitch” “whore” and various ill wishes about my rape and potential murder, really shows your tolerant standpoint.

Me, a survivor of rape/incest, disabled, formerly impoverished, advocating for every reproductive right except abortion, accessible sterilization, comprehensive sex ed, harsh punishment for rapists, spreading awareness of the risks and dangers of abortion, wanting better for women etc etc etc.

Literally half of the prochoicers I interact with: “retarded sexist bitch.”

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[songpasserine]

New Wave Feminists on 2 years post-Dobbs

[badpoliticaltakes]

Anon wjo told you you should care more about people-

You just reblogged a post about women who ae panicking about pregnancies and its complications becoming deadlier. Its not even an hypothetical, with conservatives restricting laws about abortion more women are dying from complications because they can only abort once the danger is too great with many of them dying. Children are also being born into extremely poor or abusive families because of it

Hi!

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I'd love to see some statistics on this if you have any.

I'm struggling to understand this considering there isn't a national abortion ban, nor has it been suggested there will be, and as far as I'm aware the concerns for women's health is related to that, rather than state-specific abortion bans (especially in states where the woman isn't criminalised for the abortion, and it's also not criminalized to go to another state at gain one).

Also, in addition to your point about children being born poor or into abusive households. I'm struggling to see how abortions would reduce the number of children born in abusive households, or why the solution to poor pregnant women being unable to afford to look after their children would be to terminate their pregnancy rather than support them in being mothers?