June 2010
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Abortion not used as birth control →
padaviya: A 10-YEAR Adelaide study has busted the myth that women use abortion as birth control. A Flinders University study of 965 women over 30 who used Adelaide’s largest abortion clinic found 62 per cent were using contraception when they became pregnant. She said they were not using contraception for dozens of reasons such as: cultural bans, thinking they could never have...
Jun 15th
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The Last Remaining Abortion Provider in...
michellehaimoff: Two weeks ago, an anti-abortion extremist invaded the waiting room of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Jackson, Mississippi - the only abortion provider in the entire state of Mississippi. The Feminist Majority Foundation’s legal coordinator traveled to Jackson to discuss ways to improve security, to assess legal needs and to devise new ways for the local community to...
Jun 14th
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The Horror of Forced Abortions and Sterilizations... →
padaviya: They are stories of women given injections in their seventh, eighth, and ninth months of pregnancy and forced to give birth to dead babies after days of contractions. They are stories of women snatched by officials in their last month of pregnancy, dragged to clinics, forcibly injected with solution that kills their unborn child, and kicked in the stomach. They are stories of dozens...
Jun 13th
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Wow. To the anon who just dropped that (large) message into my mailbox: Thank you, so much! I wish I could reply.. but anyway - it was truly inspirational and made me feel incredibly emotional. If this blog can contribute to just one person’s awareness or understanding then it has not been in vain.
Jun 12th
Jun 11th
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http://www.kellygorski.com/
sullivanstreet: Why I’m Pro-Choice I’ve done it. I’m successful. And I’m feeling it. I’ve entered the third trimester. With the third trimester has come serious growing pains—literally. I no longer have ankles. I have tree-trunk legs. Beautiful, motherly tree-trunk legs. My belly is huge (no stretch marks yet, thankfully), and last time I checked I had about 4 chins. My favorite thing in the...
Jun 10th
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“For all their success, I believe that it’s absolutely dangerous to discount the...”
– Anti-Choice Ultrasound Laws Don’t Change Abortion Rates, But Continue Getting Tougher — The Curvature (via clingtomymouth)
Jun 9th
Jun 8th
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Is abortion permissible to save the life of the...
trust-in-jesus: Is abortion permissible to save the life of the mother? My niece has been told by a specialist that she will die if she takes her unborn child to term. She has been told that if she does nothing both she and the unborn child will very likely die. I’m not kidding. This is what she and her husband have been told by her physicians. What on earth can be said or done? Michelle...
Jun 7th
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Anonymous asked: First I 'd like to say that I really am glad I found this tumblr, and hope others find it and become more educated. However in one answer you said this "No contraception is 100% effective, not even abstinence". I don't get where you'd think that abstinence isn't 100% effective against pregnancy. If you will, could you explain?
Jun 6th
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sullivanstreet: Thoughts From an Abortion Doctor We all know that anti-abortionists aren’t really “pro-life,” they are “pro-forced birth.” They make huge assumptions about who the women are who actually have abortions. They think that all the women who have abortions are just young flaky women who have no concern for the life of the embryo/fetus they are aborting. They couldn’t be more wrong. ...
Jun 6th
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World Abortion Laws and Policies →
Jun 5th
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Question I wanted to ask fuckyeahabortions:
gumpak3: Hiya! I just wanted to say that I am not against abortion but I do not support it either. Like if a woman was raped or was a prostitute who was just having sex because it was their job then sure… Having an abortion is okay because it was not their choice to have sex… Except for the prostitute part… They just have sex for money. It’s their job so… It’s not like they WANTED to have sex...
Jun 5th
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sluthaditcoming: To me, pro-life doesn’t make any sense. If you believe in fetal personhood and your goal is to protect the “unborn,” then the circumstances of that fetus’s conception—be it incest, rape, or consensual sex—have nothing to do with its personhood and therefore nothing to do with its “right to life.” If you believe abortion is OK in instances of rape but not in cases of consensual...
Jun 5th
shesendsshivers asked: Why couldn't a woman just go through the pregnancy and have an adoption instead of ending a life?
Jun 4th
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Jun 3rd
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Jun 2nd
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aleezacchara asked: what is the purpose of this blog? to educate the choice of women or the fact that it is an easy way out of being a parent?
Jun 2nd
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Christian 'Pregnancy Crisis Centers' Masquerading...
Under the dubious free speech protection, CPCs are going to disgusting lengths to scare women out of seeking abortions — with the help of federal and state funding. “The settings varied widely. One volunteer reported that the CPC was set up in somebody’s home. Others were in medical offices buildings and were decorated to look like legitimate health clinics. Once inside the centers, the...
Jun 2nd
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Bans Do Not Cut Abortion Rate →
kungfucarrie: Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, a major report suggests. It [the Institute] did note that improved access to contraception had cut the overall abortion rate over the last decade. Every year, an estimated 70,000 women die as a result of unsafe abortions. In the developed world, legal...
Jun 1st
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“Women are not simply portals through which other human beings enter the world....”
– Caro, J., 2010. ‘New wave of anti-abortion laws punish sexually active women’ The Age 29 May. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/new-wave-of-antiabortion-laws-punish-sexually-active-women-20100528-wlbf.html.
Jun 1st
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Anonymous asked: how is it devious and malicious to want people to keep their babies? if you have sex, be ready to have a child, or protect yourself realising that there's still a chance you'll be pregnant. don't just use sex as some floosy thing that doesn't mean anything. women DO have a choice... that is whether or not to have sex...
Jun 1st
May 2010
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Remembering Dr. Tiller..
Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed at his church in Wichita one year ago today. Dr. Tiller’s career as an abortion services provider in Kansas was courageous—in 1993 an anti-abortion activist (Shelley Shannon) shot him in both arms—but the courage of his practice is ancillary to his real courage. His real courage was to trust and respect women and their judgments, even when doing so (by...
May 31st
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Oklahoma lawmakers won't attempt to override... →
oklahomahateswomen: The legislative session for 2010 has concluded. Though some very harsh anti women bills were pushed through by the legislature, Gov. Henry’s late veto on HB 3290 was not overturned! The bill would’ve restricted insurance coverage for elective abortions.  In a news release from the Governor’s office, House Bill 3290 would have required rape and incest victims to purchase...
May 31st
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nothingplaces-deactivated201108 asked: I just want to say that I was DEFINITELY all "FUCK YEAH ABORTION!" when I got mine.

Because it was a lot shorter than "FUCK YEAH PERSONAL FREEDOM, THE TIME AND MONEY TO DO WHAT I WANT WITH MY LIFE AND THE PEACE OF MIND THAT I AM MORE THAN A UTERUS! WOOOOOO!"
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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NY TIMES: "Over the last decade, ultrasound has... →
inothernews: How incredibly fucked up, the devious, malicious creativity of the anti-abortion front.
May 30th
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I'm pro-life but hey if you have an abortion I'm...
rabbleprochoice: johnlennon-: rabbleprochoice: johnlennon-: Just because I’m pro-life doesn’t mean that everybody else has to be I just wish some people would realize that!!!! I wish some people would realize that pro-life doesn’t mean “I wouldn’t have an abortion”. It means “I don’t want you to have the option to have an abortion”. It means “everybody else has to be”. Love, Rabble ...
May 30th
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http://fuckyeahabortions.tumblr.com/
sophie-elizabeth: i’m actually going to shoot the cunt who made this. Pro-Life in action.
May 30th
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May 30th
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“To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of...”
– Ayn Rand (not being a douchebag for once)
May 29th
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May 28th
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One out of five Brazilian women under 40 have...
sluthaditcoming: naomiwaxman: One out of five Brazilian women below 40 (22%) has undergone at least one abortion, according to a survey at national level by the University of Brasilia. If all the female population of the country is considered the rate drops to one in seven, 15%. Abortive medicines were used in approximately half of the cases interviewed and it is “most probable that the other...
May 28th
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May 28th
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“Pro-Life or Anti-Sex: A thought… It seems to me that most Pro-Life people I...”
– by Richard Beck (via colton421)
May 27th
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May 27th
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Lying to pregnant women is A-ok →
thisisprolife: Jill Stanek admits that she thinks lying to pregnant women to prevent abortions is totally justified and definitely not a sin. I guess that explains a lot. From RH Reality Check: Lying to save lives
May 27th
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“Me? I find Palin’s antichoice position per se less disturbing than her overall...”
– Daum on Palin on Feminism — Hoyden About Town (via clingtomymouth)
May 26th
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Why Are Insured Women Paying for Abortions? (via... →
padaviya: Dmitriy T.M. alerted us to a new report by the Guttmacher Institute on the characteristics of women who have abortions.  There’s lots of interesting data there, including the figure below that tells us how women are paying for their abortions.
May 26th
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If You Don't Have the Right to My Liver, You Don't... →
If someone needs a liver transplant, or bone marrow, or a blood transfusion, do they have a right to just take it from your body? Of course not. Donating a liver, bone marrow, or blood is a voluntary action. Refusing isn’t a crime, and it won’t land you in jail. What if the person will die if not allowed to use your body? Still no..
May 26th
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10 Worst Abortion Myths – and How to Refute Them →
littlelightx:  Roxanne says: April 23, 2010 at 1:18 pm The only one I need to say something about is #10. While there IS no scientific prove, there are many women who are proof, myself included. P.A.S.S. does not affect MANY women, however, for some women who have an abortion, dealing with the aftermath is traumatic in itself. After mine I fell apart. I needed a therapist to cope with the...
May 26th
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May 26th
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10 Worst Abortion Myths–and How to Refute Them →
And The Next 10 Myths About Abortion (via trekkim)
May 25th
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pixyled-deactivated20101127 asked: Seriously, I love your for starting this blog and naming it that. There is such a negative stigma on the world "abortion", despite the fact it saves lives of women everywhere, and not just in a literal sense, but in a metaphorical one as well. It saves them from being forced into a life they are not ready for, such as forced marriage to a man they do not love to prevent shaming their...
May 25th