Literally can’t get over the fact that a nation’s government decided to say “females are people too,” and everyone is collectively losing their shit and calling it evil.

I think women should have the option to abort until the semester where the fetus gains consciousness (unless it’s a life or death situation for the mother, fetus or both of them, then it can be aborted).

Anytime before then, I’d say it’s okay to abort it since it doesn’t have a consciousness; it does not feel or think and it cannot survive outside of the womb.

Though, if you simply didn’t use protection just because you didn’t want to… then I do think that’s somewhat your problem and perhaps the fetus should not be aborted. (? <- Not sure on this take)

But yeah, if the protection broke, the birth control didn’t work or something similar, you’re probably fine to get an abortion.

Though, if you simply didn’t use protection just because you didn’t want to…

Men are the ones who don’t want to use protection, not women (look up what “stealthing” is) so how about you shut the fuck up about the results of an activity you have built your entire identity around not doing.

op really said "semester" and wants to have an opinion lmao

the take "a woman should be forced against her will to grow an unwanted parasite inside of her (risking permanent health issues, even death) if the fetus might have brain activity or if the woman needs to be punished for not meeting my idea of enough effort trying to avoid unwanted pregnancy" is disturbing beyond belief

I guess the supposedly vital importance of consent gets thrown out the window when a woman doesn't consent to donating her organs on demand

I said if there were any issues (the woman changed her mind about having a child, there were issues for either the fetus or the mother, if she wasn’t financially or mentally stable, etc) then she should be free to abort it.

No woman should have to suffer through birth if she doesn’t want it. ^^

Did OP, after that failed backtracking, deactivate out of genuine shame or just to save face on their ostensibly progressive political blog, I wonder.

Men on Twitter seem really, really devoted to pushing the idea that no rich or white woman has literally ever been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. 😐

All the bleeding heart liberals wringing their hands about the abortion ban would literally jump up and down laughing so hard they cried if a republican senators wife or girlfriend or mistress was forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy or died trying to get an abortion. Abortions for women who we’ve decided deserve it only. All other women are being stingy with their wombs and are incapable of experiencing human suffering

UHM doesn’t the first tweet basically prove how women have to secretly engineer places to have safe abortions when they’re illegal 👩‍💻 men are like “if you have to build a secret underground lair to get illegal medical treatment, you are privileged. check mated I am very smart” like??

also how does he know the women who used that clinic were well-to-do? Perhaps the well-to-do women were able to leverage their privilege to build the secret abortion lair, but that is good, yes? anyway, lets see how many Texan male civil engineers revert their houses into abortion clinics any time soon

Men make the laws, men enforce the laws, and the large majority of the people utilizing this disgusting “bounty lawsuit” program against women they know will very likely be men, but let’s not talk about men’s oppression of women, let’s just talk about how evil and horrible it is that some women might - MIGHT - have a slightly better shot than others at not having their entire right to bodily autonomy removed overnight. That makes sense and is completely morally consistent, right?

Seriously, what the actual fuck.

But real talk, these tweets and the thousands like them only exist for three reasons:

1. To create an acceptable target for liberal misogyny. If they actually acknowledged how all women in Texas are being subjected to horrific conditions and having their bodily autonomy ripped away from them, they would lose their “acceptable” targets for the misogynistic insults they love to spew. They need to create a category of women they can still call “Karens” and “b*tches”, that they can still abuse horrifically without social repercussions, etc. Do not be surprised if you see these people in the near future suggesting that people should hunt down the names of wealthy Texan women to submit to the “possibly had an illegal abortion” website forms without any care for what could happen to those women after they do. Do not be surprised if they cheer any wealthy Texan women who do face severe consequences for actually getting an abortion or being accused of getting an abortion.

2. To remove the issue of misogyny from the situation in Texas. Liberals are terrified of the idea of women gaining class consciousness and fighting against their actual oppression, so they seek to divide women at all times and ensure that no one can ever see an issue as a “women’s issue”. By framing this as an issue of class or race, they effectively remove misogyny from the conversation, preventing women from seeing that it is women as a whole whose rights are under attack, not “the poor” or “people of color”. In this vein, you’ll also see a ton of comments from liberals reminding everyone not to use the word “women” when speaking about abortion, but rather to detach the issue by using language like “people who can get pregnant” or the even more vague “people who need care”.

3. To downplay the seriousness of the situation and make it easier for society to move on even faster and ignore what’s happening in Texas. Liberals DO NOT care about women’s rights and are unlikely to want anything to do with this issue long-term. By making light of the situation and claiming that any woman with sufficient funds can “opt out” of her oppression, they make it sound much less serious than it is. This makes it easier for the liberal mainstream press to justify not caring about it anymore when they inevitably stop talking about the issue in a week or two.

@kiefbowl The women behind Chicago's underground abortion network, the Jane Collective, were mostly wives of university staff. When they learned one client prostituted herself for two weeks to afford the abortion, they immediately changed their payment policy so the affluent clients payed for the impoverished. Once they learned how to perform abortions themselves, they had their clients cover the cost of medical supplies and nothing else. They never turned a woman away who couldn't pay. There were rich women who could fly to London or Puerto Rico for an abortion and many more who had to sneak out behind their husband's back because reproductive coercion is real. I don't believe Sarah Palin's daughter was a willing teen mom, and she was thrust into the limelight to be a pro-life poster girl, but that's a secondary rant. You're right that the illegality created an additional burden for all women and the ones with means helped out women who had less.

even if women who have more privilege and accessibility to abortions can get them at an increased cost or requiring a lengthy trip, they are still needing to jump through hoops just to access basic health care and exercise bodily autonomy, that is still discrimination and misogyny.

Ladies if you know any pregnant women of color tell them about Irth

NEW YORK (WABC) -- One mother has used her own personal experience as motivation to help other expecting women find the best care possible.

"You're really not being treated as a person, it really felt like we were being treated like a number," said expectant mother Solaire Spellen.

Spellen got a little extra help switching providers after an unsettling experience early in her pregnancy.

"Now we're receiving care at a beautiful clinic, it's actually called Uah," she said. "They have great ratings on the app."

That app is called Irth. It's a free Yelp-like platform where you can find prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric reviews of care from other Black and brown women.

"It's often referred to as the Green Book of hospitals," Spellen said. "It's a shame that we need it, but we do. We need to be able to tell one another where it's safe to deliver."

Journalist and maternal healthcare advocate Kimberly Seales Allers developed and launched the app in 2022 after her own birth trauma.

Black pregnant women in New York City are almost four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white pregnant women, according to the latest data from the health department.

"I wanted to create a place where we could let each other know that we were not alone," Allers said.

She also aims to teach hospitals how to treat pregnant women of color better.

The mom of two and NYC native says through her app, her team has collected data from women across the country.

She is currently working with eight healthcare systems in six states to improve care.

"Right now in our national database, the number one negative experience being reported in Irth is 'my request for help was refused,' number two is 'my pain levels were dismissed,'" Allers said.

Irth is available in the Apple and Google Play app store. It shows you which hospitals allow doulas, C-section rates, plus data on vaginal births after C-sections.

Spellen, who has a background in maternal healthcare research is due next month. She is also a member of the Irth team.

"Being able to work in the space of advancing maternal health has been incredibly rewarding," Spellen said.

inshallah jk rowling loses her fortune and all her hateful deeds are returned to her x10

May jkr live through everything she wishes for trans women 🙏

"the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others, but are vulnerable ... transgender people need and deserve protection"

Agree! 🙏

inshallah jk rowling loses her fortune and all her hateful deeds are returned to her x10

JK Rowling's hateful deeds, for those who don't remember:

Hating on children since 2005

Hating on abused women

Hating on women escaping persecution

Hating on women and children in Scotland since 2000

Hating on people with multiple sclerosis

Hating COVID victims in India

10 times over isn't even enough!

– Lila Shapiro, There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades

[and Good Omens starts filming later this month]

THAT’s why we should be boycotting him. That’s why we should be pressuring every studio and every actor to stop working with him. We can’t do anything about the judicial part, but his career should not have just been “marginally affected”; it should have crumbled to pieces.

Does Donald Trump realising the sky is blue make it so you agree with a rapist that it is?

Neil Gaiman was enthusiastically trans-supportive. If that's the kinda people who agree with you...

This post is getting a lot of notes so let me add to it, heads up it's gonna be VERY long and in parts because Tumblr won't allow it

continued thread

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This is the end of the first thread by @ women's voice on Twitter you can find it here (follow them if you have an account)

They have another thread similar to the one above (it's shorter) I'll make sure to add it later on this one seems to cover everything for now

j.k. rowling is probably the biggest example of why i say that TERFs and GC’s aren’t the same group of people and they have a different orientation towards enforcing patriarchy. because rowling isn’t even pretending to be a “feminist.” she never posts about feminist politics. she’s a straight woman doing what they do best i fear (derogatory).

yeah no she only founded a shelter for female abuse victims that she also funds and helped save over 100 female lawyers and their families from taliban kill lists but whatever

Yeah but she doesn’t post about it, how are we supposed to know?!

She actually does post, though, a lot. OP doesn't know because they don't actually read what the women they've been told to hate actually say. Good little soldiers don't question orders.

“they’re burning all the witches” 

ARTIST CREDIT

Congrats TERFs you got womanhood legally defined by reproductive organs and the opinions of mostly male doctors. Win for feminism!

I don’t know what the doctors being male has to do with anything.

And I am happy the UK has seen the light. A woman is and always was a female.

Females are female even if you cut out our reproductive organs.

Man, shut the fuck up. You call us "people with uteruses" and "menstruators".

You either know we never defined ourselves like this or you're fucking stupid and a liar. Tired of correcting either.

you're so beautifol :) may i sense you with my feelers

of course! let me just-

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So is the new discourse on here about how you’re a conservative fascist if you would look at someone differently for jerking off to a game about torturing and raping your mother. Some of you have been completely submerged into gooning, straight up no soul just a whole existence revolving around masturbating and getting annoyed when anyone interrupts you because that’s equivalent to ceasing your existence

If some cisgender women feel threatened by men existing around them then maybe we should look at the root cause of why people commit acts of violence against women instead of punishing trans people for *checks notes* wanting to exist as their true authentic selves without bothering anyone else.

Women don't "feel" threatened, they are. The 'people' who commit most acts of violence against women are men. The root cause is 'cause they want to. There's never been anything keeping them from not doing it. A pervasive expression of this violence is an inherent disrespect of women's boundaries and spaces.

Women having the right to a definition of ourselves which secures our legal protections, made necessary by men's violence, takes nothing from anyone that wasn't already infringing on this right.

If the shoe fits, wear it.