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"Safe Abortion for All.
No Compromise - No Apology"
Print by Bum Lung Press
spockvarietyhour reblogged
Today, the Trump administration is forcing us out of the Title X program — our nation’s program focused on family planning, of which we serve 40% of patients. This is a *direct attack* on Planned Parenthood and on our health and rights, and we will not stand for it. We’re working to make sure that all patients can still get the health care they need. Contact your local health center to find out how much a service costs and ask if there are other ways to get your care covered. We aren’t throwing in the towel and we won’t give up on our patients. Being forced out of Title X won’t stop us from referring for or performing abortions, prescribing birth control, or any of our other services. Our doors are open and we are fighting against the gag rule. The most important thing: Congress can take action to right this wrong. Make your voice heard to ensure that patients can continue to get the care they need. Stand with Planned Parenthood — we stand with you.
Call your senator at 1-202-601-3441 or text PROTECT X to 22422 to find out how you can take action.
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if you’re distressed about what’s going on in alabama, and you are not a resident of alabama or a neighboring state, might i suggest NOT publishing a single hot take on the issue and instead give some money to yellowhammer fund
histaria
other grassroots abortion funds in the south you can give money to or at the very least follow on social media
*not a fund, but does fundraise for specific clients when they cannot be fully funded or for travel, lodging etc
lavode-deactivated20181218
She claims that “the sole purpose of the law is to indoctrinate pregnant women into the belief held by some, but not all, Christians that a separate and unique human being begins at conception,” according to the court’s opinion. “Because the law does not recognize or include other beliefs, she contends that it establishes an official religion and makes clear that the state disapproves of her beliefs.”
The case would be the first of its kind to be heard by either the Missouri Supreme Court or U.S. Supreme Court, according to the Western District Court.
“Neither the Missouri Supreme Court nor the U.S. Supreme Court has considered whether a Booklet of this nature, an Ultrasound, an Audible Heartbeat Offer, and a seventy-two-hour Waiting Period violate the Religion Clause rights of pregnant women,” the court wrote.
Judge Thomas Newton issued the unanimous opinion. He wrote that Doe argued she must not support religious, philosophical or political beliefs that imbue her fetal tissue with an existence separate, apart or unique from her body.
“Because we believe that this case raises real and substantial constitutional claims, it is within the Missouri Supreme Court’s exclusive jurisdiction…” Newton wrote, “and we hereby order its transfer.”
Doe is an adherent of the Satanic Temple, according to court documents.
Guys please pay attention to H.R 586, a bill introduced that would declare human life begins at fertilization.
Don’t let this bill slip by. Call your reps. Spread the word.
Getting real tired.
This has 23 co-sponsors from GA, AR, SC, TX, AZ, WI, OH, MO, TN, OK, VA, and IN. If you live in one of these states, these are your representatives. Link.
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Polish women have won. Abortion will not be banned in Poland. #czarnyprotest. Jaroslaw Gowin, the Minister of Science and Higher Education, said the protests by women have ‘caused us to think and taught us humility’.
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Hello, guys. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but in my beloved, you’d think civilised, beautiful country, located in central Europe, Poland, the basic human rights are about to be taken away from women. Why is that? The Polish government, inspired mainly by the Catholic Church (that has definitely too much power in Poland), has created an anti-abortion project. For now, abortion in Poland is legal in case of rape or if the mother’s/child’s life is in danger. If the anti-abortion project comes through (which is very likely) the situation of Polish women will change dramatically:
- aborting a pregnancy that has started because of rape will no longer be legal (3 months to 5 years of prison for the mother and the doctor),
- aborting a pregnancy that endangers the mother’s life will no longer be legal (3 months to 5 years of prison for the mother and the doctor),
- aborting a pregnancy in case of a fatal disease of the fetus will no longer be legal (3 months to 5 years of prison for the mother and the doctor),
- the project says that whoever puts the woman in a situation of a probable miscarriage could be charged of 3 years in prison, which in practice means that some of the medical exams (like the prental exam which helps to indicate if the fetus is healthy) could not be available because of the doctors being afraid of going to prison,
- it all also means that men could get easily away with rape, since the women would be afraid of going to the police in case they got pregnant and didn’t want to get birth to the rapist’s child (which they will now be forced to do),
- also, on the side of this project, the Catholic Church wants to make in vitro even less available for families struggling to have children, since apparently “it’s basically just killing unconcieved babies” (?? fuck logic),
- what’s more, they’ve recently withdrawn chemical contraception for women from the pharmacies (things like spermicidal gels, liquids, creams, vaginal suppositories) cause they’re apparently “dangerous for women’s health”, so now the only contraception available without a prescription are condoms,
- don’t even get me started with the level of sexual education in Poland which is basically non-existent. Recently, just this week, a 12 year old girl gave birth to a child. A fucking 12-yr old. She had sex (they said it was consensual, but who fucking even believes this shit) with a 29 year old man. The doctors said she didn’t even know what was going on during the labour, she of course had to have C-section because her body was obviously not ready to have a baby at such young age. There are so many cases like this.
- all of this is supposed to “help” with the demographic decline and to “encourage” people to have more kids. Let me tell you something - if anything this encourges me to is to not have babies a t a l l.
Let me also show you some of the social media responses of “pro-life” activists and give you a glimpse of what kind of shit Polish women have to deal with:
“If the pregnancy started because of rape, the only victim is the child that can lose its life.”
“If abortion is such a dramatic decision to make, it’ll be better to not let women make it. To ban abortion.”
“Womanhood is all about being in service of life. Women/female MPs who are against life, contradict their own womanhood.”
“All of these women screaming that “their belly, their choice” [should know] that the life in their bellies belongs only to the child. Selfish women, assassins like during Holocaust. You just lend your body to give new life. You should be happy you were not killed. There should be no abortion.”
“Abortion is barbaric (…) and it will be remembered as equally bad as genocide and gas chambers.”
I found these in 5 minutes. Women are treated with no respect, they’re believed to be stupid and as not able to make their own choice about their own body. Men leading our country (most of them are very religious) want to decide about what we should do with our bodies. Please, help us. Spread the word. We are trying to fight this, but we’re in the minority… The world needs to know!!
Edit:
Guys, if you wanna help, there’s a petition to sign!!
Source: doppelutiful
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TW for abortion
“In 2001, K.L. was a 17-year-old who was diagnosed as having a fetus with anencephaly at 14 weeks’ gestation. As described below, this fetal anomaly is routinely lethal. Although abortion was legal in Peru in this circumstance, a hospital director refused her request for an abortion. She was forced to continue her pregnancy and deliver the doomed fetus, which survived only four days.
Working with human rights lawyers, K.L. filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, based in Geneva. In 2005, the Committee concluded that Peru had violated several articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and it ordered financial compensation to K.L.
Fifteen years after the incident, reparations were finally made for Peru’s ”cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.“ This marked the first time a United Nations Committee had held a country accountable for failing to ensure access to safe, legal abortion.”
Read the full piece here
THIS IS MAJOR. IT SETS A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK OF ABORTION AS A HUMAN RIGHT WHICH CAN NOW BE LEVERAGED AND APPLIED TO SPECIFIC COUNTRIES AND STATES/REGIONS.
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Since 2010, 282 restrictions on women’s reproductive rights have been enacted, the Guttmacher Institute reported in July. Far more have been proposed. These restrictions range from longer waiting periods before an abortion can be performed to requiring unnecessary medical procedures like ultrasounds to forbidding abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. The number of proposed U.S. laws that regulate men’s bodies? Zero.
Judith McDaniel on how patriarchy is the only way to explain pregnancy politics. (via madmaudlingoes)
Source: womensenews.org
popcanpoli
OTTAWA—Health Minister Jane Philpott said the federal government will explore how to improve access to abortion services nationwide, but the details remain a mystery.
“Our government firmly supports a woman’s right to choose, and believes that safe and legal abortions should be available to any woman who needs it,” Philpott said in a statement emailed to the Star that had originally been issued in response to a question from CBC News about access to abortion services.
“We know that abortion services remain patchy in parts of the country, and that rural women in particular face barriers to access. Our government will examine ways to better equalize access for all Canadian women,” said Philpott, a family physician who became federal health minister earlier this month.
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the provision of the Criminal Code regarding abortion in 1988, but differing provincial regulations, funding levels and even the individual choices of physicians means access to abortion services has always been uneven across the country.
Wait times and coverage vary widely between and even within provinces, with only one in six hospitals offering surgical abortions and access most difficult for women living in rural communities — including First Nations reserves — who may have to travel long distances to get an abortion.
Prince Edward Island does not provide any abortion services at all, although it does cover the cost of the procedure for provincial residents who obtain an abortion at a hospital in Moncton, N.B., where no referral is needed, or in Halifax, where women need to be referred by a P.E.I. doctor.
