I am surely in the toils.

Baby formula should be free.

Notice how forced-birthers and pro-lifers want parents to suffer with the costs of feeding their children.

Conservatives would only want to punish the parents and judge them.

The heartlessness for children is disgusting.

[image id: a tweet by @/Joe_Roberts01 reading

“Bought baby formula this morning and the theft alarm went off on my way out. As the cashier deactivated it, she said ‘formula is one of the most stolen items’

In one of the wealthiest countries in the world people are forced to steal to feed babies.

I cried in the car.”

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baby food should be free

Abortion IS NOT a human right.

I wonder if prolifers, like our friend here, have ever actually dug into *why* we argue that abortion is a human right.

I mean, I say I wonder. But we all know they haven't.

But just in case no one has articulated it for you: abortion is a human right because it safeguards our dignity and personhood under the law. It protects our ownership over our own bodies and our right to self determination. It is a safety net against the sorts of abuse and exploitation that only people capable of becoming pregnant are vulnerable to. It is harm reduction and health care.

Access to abortion is the garauntee that if we are in a bad situation, we won't be forced into a worse one because of our biology. Access to abortion is the safety net against failed and unviable pregnancies, the way to minimize risk and pain when a pregnancy becomes dangerous.

Access to abortion is the promise that we get to choose who the father of our children is, not having that forced upon us through acts of violence.

Access to abortion is an option for people who find themselves in need of options- for whom the loss of options will mean suffering and indignity.

Forced pregnancy is listed as a human rights violation by the UN. It is important to think about why.

Abortion isn't just a human right, it's one that's impossible to attack without standing directly opposed to the idea of freedom.

You know, the idea that you should be free to live your own life and not be beholden to a lord or king or what have you? Yeah, that's what you have to fight against if you oppose abortion.

People who oppose abortion are people who don't think human beings should be free. And last I checked, those aren't the kind of people who contribute to a healthy, free, and equal democracy.

It’s morally wrong to murder a innocent human being no matter how small.

A human, no matter how small, is not entitled to the organs of another person against their will.

Look, I get it. If you completely ignore the very real, complicated, messy, painful, wildly diverse, sometimes traumatic or tragic lives of the people who are pregnant, and ONLY focus on the (assumed healthy and viable) fetus, it's very easy to sit on your high horse and pass out these kinds of unnuanced morally simplistic edicts.

But the devil is in the details, and the people who are pregnant are people too, and whether intentional or not, your rhetoric causes a huge amount of suffering and harm to them.

Look, I'm not going to argue with you. I don't really get the impression that you're here with an open mind to the topic. That's fine. This reply wasn't for you - it's for everyone else who will read it.

Anti-abortion rhetoric is, at best, ignorant and niave. It is, in practice, wildly harmful and dehumanizing. It causes people to suffer, to carry dying and dead fetuses, it intensifies trauma and puts people in increased risk of intimate partner abuse. It creates a culture where the ability to become pregnant is a liability and a vulnerability. And if you refuse to take a step back and see the humanity of the people who are pregnant, then you are promoting violence against them.

You're allowed to not like abortion. I'm not asking you to throw a party over it. But the humane and ethical thing to do is to work to EXPAND and strengthen the choices we have, so fewer people find abortion their best option. Not take choices away and turn them into faceless incubators.

This is sick.

The Ohio bill is crazy.

Like, doctors are literally telling you this is not physically possible.

The first commenters here are the “Shirley/Surely Exeception” illustrated. Sad, stupid, and presumptuous as fuck.

Let’s be clear here - the safe treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, which accounts for 1 in 50 pregnancies, is an abortion. The idea you should “lose the pregnancy” first, means waiting for the rupture and the patient’s vitals to be crashing.l and then trying to save the patient. The only way to prevent that otherwise inevitable event is an abortion.

My mom had an ectopic before I was born and nearly died. I literally wouldn't exist if she hadn't been allowed to terminate what was a wanted pregnancy. I was terrified of an ectopic when I was pregnant, and it's one of the reasons I wouldn't dare fucking get pregnant on purpose again in Mississippi.

I can't believe the people making these laws are actually clueless. I think they just don't care about the lives of people who can get pregnant. They think our purpose is to have babies. If we can't do that without dying, then what use are we? I'm sure they'll think it's very sad when we die, but ultimately they'll think it's natural selection. Our lives don't matter. Only our ability to bear (preferably white) children matters.

OM Fin' G

All of the "Pro-lifers" that are celebrating right now I sincerely hope you or your daughters never have a Miscarriage that they cannot naturally pass, because a D&C is an abortion.

I hope you don't have a ectopic pregnancy, because the procedure that will save your life is an abortion.

I hope you don't have a still born baby that your body can't naturally pass because that induction is an abortion.

I hope you are never in a place where carrying a baby full term would mean your death (as mine would, my doctor looked me in the eyes and told me if I get pregnant again I WILL NOT MAKE IT, and fuck you all because my kids need a mom more than they need a sibling.)

I hope you don't find out your baby has a condition that will mean being alive for how ever long will cause them excruciating pain, that you don't have to birth your baby and watch them die a horrific, painful death in your arms.

I hope you aren't raped and forced to carry that baby to term no matter the detriment to your mental/physical health.

I hope you aren't forced to give birth to your abusers child, giving you no way out of the relationship.

I hope your 10 year old is never assaulted and have to carry a baby to term that will almost definitely will kill her.

I hope that you don't go to jail when they investigate your miscarriage and determine that something you did made it YOUR FAULT.

I hope you realize you and your daughters will die from laws you created.

I hope you realize the consequences of your actions because you may have to suffer through them.

OP is being overly kind to the empathy-lacking forced-breeders who enabled the SCOTUS coup

in a just world, only they will suffer from this, not everyone else they're happy to harm

What they really mean by “pro-life”. via antiwork

we really gotta stop calling anti abortion people "pro life" like even if ur aware how bullshit of a term that is ur still somewhat reinforcing the idea & validating them. say anti abortion or anti choice or, my personal favorite, cunt