"Early in America’s history, abortion was regarded as a form of birth control, and the general presumption was that a fetus became a human being at the ‘quickening’—the moment that a woman began to feel it moving around in her body. That had changed in the nineteenth century, and many Americans has been taught from childhood that abortion at any stage was the same as murder."
—
Gail Collins, When Everything Changed
Conservatives would do well to study American history more closely.
(via brute-reason)
amberlynntoocute:
Stupid bitches that get abortions. If you didnt want a baby then stop being a fucking cheese tray and get passed around between a thousand guys. Damn. It’s not that hard to get. Yeah I fucking LOVE sex. But I use
——> PROTECTION!
Oops, reality is not with you! :D
One in three women have abortions. Two in three women that have abortions already have children. Five out of ten used contraceptives, and three out of those same ten were declared infertile by doctors.
The reality of abortion is hardly the “childless slutfest without protection” you think it is. It would do you good to get educated on the subject before you go all anti-sex and name-calling on everyone else.
And honestly, how can you feel so strongly about something that is just in your overactive imagination? And how can you be so egocentric to think you are the one authority on sex and procreation everyone should respond to?
The world is not about you alone :)
Learn to respect people and to act like a civilized person.
"People in the Third World are viewed as having too many children because they are ignorant and irrational; they exercise no control over their sexuality, and “breed out of control.” However, in many Third World societies, having a large family is a completely rational strategy for survival. Children’s labor is a vital part of the family economy… quite early in life, children’s labor makes them an asset rather than a drain on family income. Also, because the vast majority of people in Third World countries do not have access to insurance, pension plans, and social security, having a large number of children insures that there will be someone to take care of or provide for the family, especially aging parents… As long as the vast majority of people in the Third World countries remain impoverished, uneducated, and unhealthy, the large family will provide the only real source of social security. Birth control programs will fail to reduce fertility rates, as they have in the past, when there is no motivation on the part of poor families to limit their size, unless coercive methods of population control are used."
— Seeing beyond the numbers: The human cost of population control in brazil (via pursuingchastity)
I will say it again, its eugenics by another name, to campaign to limit poc having kids, blaming that for poverty, when they’re poor because they lack access to basic needs and having less kids only means less undesirables and even less resources. Most of the world resources are consumed by the white developed world minority w few children but we don’t go after them for gutting us poc, asking them to breed less. (via bad-dominicana)
(via casual-isms)
aboutmaleprivilege:
No, Male Privilege, I’m not dressed this way because I want you; I’m dressed this way because I want to.
I remember the last time I went out with a skirt or dress above my ankles in public.
I was twelve years old, walking while holding my mother’s hand. A guy passed us in the street, he called me names in creepy whispers.
I was not wearing a skirt reaching below my knees for men in the street. I was wearing a skirt because skirts are nice and I like them.
Well, liked…
(Source: all-about-male-privilege)
