The Pro-Choice Generation

theangrygypsy:

    You know what’s wrong with this picture?

    Here we have a panel of eight male lawmakers gathered together to consider a bill which would ban abortions after twenty weeks of pregnancy across the United States without granting exceptions even in cases of rape, incest, or the health of the mother.

    In short, just more men talking about women’s health issues that they themselves will never have to experience.

    That’s what’s wrong with this picture.

(via choosechoice)

forthecatholicgirls:

by-grace-of-god:

Disappointing day when Catholic university ignores church teaching and admonition from Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley and awards honourary doctorate to Enda Kelly. (x) 

(images via Students for Life)

I don’t get angry very often, but this makes me livid.

I’m disgusted, actually.

I’m disgusted because Enda Kelly is not trying to legalize abortion in Ireland. He is legalizing abortion in the case of mother’s health, in order to prevent the deaths of women.

I’m disgusted because these deaths that could have been preventable, if it weren’t for Ireland’s stringent laws that place Irish doctors in jail. I’m disgusted because these laws force doctors to not treat women with complicated pregnancies because of the risked imprisonment.

I’m disgusted because the European Council told Ireland in 2009 that it is violating human rights for not providing abortions when the mother’s life is at risk. I’m disgusted that Ireland did nothing to remedy this situation—not until Savita Halappanavar’s death. 

I’m disgusted because women die in Ireland because the government and the Catholic Church puts the life of a non-viable fetus on the same level—or even a higher level—than the life of a woman. Savita is not a rare case. She is not the only one. And there will be more if you don’t let Enda Kelly do his job and fix a devastating law that denies Irish women their right to life.

I’m disgusted because there’s apparently people out there who think that this is OK. That life-saving abortions are a myth, and if a woman needs one she should die with the fetus instead of being saved to continue on to live a full, complete, happy and healthy life. What about her right to life?

I’m disgusted because you who protested the college graduation and Enda Kelly and Ireland’s new law, which will only make it somewhat easier for women to have life-saving abortions, are not pro-life. You are protesting against Savita and in favor of her death. You are protesting against women’s lives.

If you think that there should not be abortions in the case of mother’s health, whether physical or mental, you do not display pro-life values. You are pro-death.

And you should be ashamed of yourselves.

xx

choosechoice:

crsbbq-politics:

choosechoice:

crsbbq-politics:

choosechoice:

crsbbq-politics:

Yep, keep on rationalizing…

Untrue. Here’s the most recent census of all known abortion clinics. In short, among abortion clinics in 2008. Guttmacer Institute cross-indexed racial and ethnic information from the 2000 U.S. Census with the aforementioned 2008 census of abortion clinics, and produced these results: 

• 63% were located in neighborhoods where one-half or more of the residents were non-Hispanic white; 
• 12% were located in neighborhoods where one-half or more of the residents were Hispanic; 
• 9% were located in neighborhoods where one-half or more of the residents were black; 
• 1% were located in neighborhoods where one-half or more of the residents were “non-Hispanic other”; and 
• 15% were located in neighborhoods where no single racial or ethnic group accounted for one-half or more of residents.

Go back and check the meme. It isn’t referring to all abortion clinics, just those run by Planned Parenthood, an organization with a very racist history.

Google “planned parenthood abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods”. I got about seven pages in and there was virtually no dispute of that fact.

A racist history?? You mean Sanger?

And those sources are all pro-life sites.

Sanger and the afforementioned location issue. Sanger herself is pretty significant.

The fact that they’re pro-choice doesn’t make the fact untrue. Where is your proof that it’s wrong?

I notice in your profile that you like to use “science” to defend your point of view. Could you tell me when science has conclusively determined that a fetus becomes a human being?

Hate to break it to you, dear, but Sanger was pro-life. Hard to process, I know. Racism, yea, was a major problem of hers, as were her pro-eugenics views, but if you remember most of the founding fathers had slaves, and we practiced eugenics as public policy in the US until the 1970s. 

Personhood is a philosophical belief- there is no science of the soul. Personally, I believe personhood is tied to sentience and sense, the former only occuring post-birth, and the latter in the second half of pregnancy. 

“That’s [targeting of minority pregnancy] a very cynical manipulation of the reality that the abortion rate is higher in the African-American and Latino communities because their unplanned pregnancy rates are higher and the availability of modern contraception is lower.

And in the same breath of feigning concern about black women and black babies, abortion opponents are limiting access to contraception and defunding health care and child care programs, and all the other things that would be even more necessary if more of the unplanned, unwanted pregnancies were carried to term.”

—Willie J Parker, OBGYN