eluhfonts:

You can argue as much as you want about when life starts and whether it is in or out of the womb, but I will tell you one thing: the body of a woman who had a back alley abortion and died because of the lack of regulations and health codes is the farthest thing from life that you can imagine.

birdsy-purplefish:

Angie Jackson, known for sharing her experience with abortion on Twitter, has a question for people who want abortion illegal in all but the few cases that they deem worthy:

For people who want to restrict abortion access just to women who really “need it” or “deserve” it, I have something to say. 

I had a life-saving abortion in 2010. Because abortion is legal on demand in the first trimester, I didn’t have to prove my life was in danger. I didn’t have to talk to an all male panel of clergy and doctors to get permission to save my life, like my grandma had to back in the 60s when she was pregnant and diagnosed with uterine cancer. I was able to just schedule the abortion and get it right away.

If you want to restrict abortion rights to only women who need it for our health, what hoops will we sick and disabled women be forced to jump through while facing dangerous pregnancies to satisfy your nosiness?

I think everyone who says things like that owes her—and every other woman—an answer.

(via rabbleprochoice)

apsies:

Obama’s Affordable Care Act does not pay for abortions. In Massachusetts, Romney’s health care law does. Obama favors, and included in the Affordable Care Act, $250 million of support for vulnerable pregnant women and alternatives to abortion. This support will make abortions much less likely, since most abortions are economic. Romney, on the other hand, has endorsed Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan’s budget, which will cut hundreds of millions of dollars out of the federal plans that support poor women. The undoubted effect: The number of abortions in the United States will increase.

(Source: ipomoeaj, via think4yourself)

rabbleprochoice:

abaldwin360:

“This is My Abortion.” One woman documents her abortion with cell phone pictures, for the purpose of demystifying the sensationalist images propagated by the religious and political right on the matter.

Lining the street in front of the clinic were a dozen or so protesters. They held up large banners with anti-abortion slogans, religious iconography, and images of dead babies.

Just past the bulletproof security doors, the graphic nature of that imagery haunted me in the waiting room. What would my abortion look like? I decided to secretly document my abortion with my cell phone.

My intention in documenting and sharing my abortion is to demystify the sensationalist images propagated by the religious and political right on this matter. The perverse use of lifeless fetus photographs are a propaganda tool in the prolife/prochoice debate in which women and their bodies are used as pawns to push a cultural, political, and religious agenda in the United States.

At 6 weeks of pregnancy, my abortion looked very different than the images I saw when I entered the clinic that day.

More at the link above, the author of this post encourages everyone to share these photos.

Be warned, there’s blood.

Love,

Rabble

abaldwin360:

I’m betting religious conservatives would flip out and try to have them removed.

(via storybook)

(Source: bedbugsbiting, via republicanidiots)

rabbleprochoice:

luminosiity:

Gratuitous picture of America.

Love,

Rabble

(Source: cancelledron-speirs)

plannedparenthood:

Three cheers for birth control! According to a new CDC study, the abortion rate for women in their 20s has dropped because of increased access to birth control. Where would you be today without your birth control? Give us your answer in your reblog.

iamateenagefeminist:

thingsigivefucksabout:

THIS IS GREAT

(Source: , via iamayoungfeminist)