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9 months ago
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beccafrench
Mom Uses Abortion to Hide Rape of Mentally Disabled Daughter

beccafrench:

My heart breaks for this little girl and her child. 

Abortion in cases of rape and incest are highly disputed. The book Victims and Victors is an incredible resource concerning this heartbreaking topic and I would highly recommend it (it’s out of print but you can find it used on Amazon). This story exemplifies a major point in Victims and Victors, that abortion is often used to protect the rapist. In cases of incest, like this one, it only keeps the victim in an abusive relationship. 

Abortion doesn’t help victims of rape and incest. It only further destroys the already hurting woman or girl. 

I’m sorry, what? What makes you think that reading one testimony by a rape survivor makes it okay to generalize that all abortion will hurt abuse victims? Fucking ridiculous. Abortion may not have been the choice for this woman, but it will be and it NEEDS to be legal for other women in this world.

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11 months ago
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filthfade

Abortion? (TW for rape, incest, and slut-shaming)

markroar:

Fuck abortion.

Unless you were raped, or an Incest victim. there is no fucking reason to get an abortion. thats bullshit.

First - Pregnancy is preventable. There’s condoms, Birth control, They even have BC for guys.

Second - You decided to have condom-less, BC-less sex.

Third - If you aren’t married, why the fuck are you having sex?

If murder is illegal, why is abortion legal?

  1. All of those things can fail. What then?
  2. Not necessarily. And mind your privilege. This is one you might not think of immediately, but I can’t use the cheapo condoms because I’m allergic to latex. Polyurethane condoms are more expensive and harder to find, and using lambskin ones is just asking for herpes. No thanks. That’s ableism. Also, not everyone has equal access to birth control and condoms. Many people seriously cannot afford them, and teens are often denied birth control prescriptions by holier-than-thou pharmacists. That’s ageism and… damn, is there a word for prejudice against the poor?
  3. Because I fucking like to. Marriage isn’t a fucking license. Marriage also doesn’t occur in nature. Why is it that you can only have sex when you’re married and with the person you’re married to? Don’t tell me what to do with my life and my vagina.

And there are plenty of reasons to get an abortion that don’t involve rape or incest. If you want to continue your education, having a child at a young age is basically not an option. If you’re shit poor and can’t dish out half a million dollars over eighteen years, that’s a good reason too. If you don’t think you deserve to be punished for having sex without the intention of reproducing, and you accidentally end up pregnant, then that’s a good time to get an abortion. If the pregnancy becomes life threatening to the biological mother’s health, that, too, is a good reason to terminate.

Since you make “the rape exception”, you obviously care about the women’s experiences here, so let me ask you this: do my experiences as a college student stricken with financial hardships not matter? If I were to end up accidentally pregnant tomorrow, should I really have to sacrifice my future dreams for a simple mistake?

Abortion is not murder. It’s self-defense. It’s defense of one’s bodily domain. One’s reasons for aborting are none of your business. Stop with this holier-than-thou, slut-shaming attitude and think about less privileged people for a moment.

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11 months ago
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ericasavestheday
"(TW for rape apologism) QUESTION: So even in the case of rape or incest, that would be taking a life?
SANTORUM: That would be taking a life, and I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so."

Santorum: Doctors Providing Abortions To Rape And Incest Victims Should Be Criminally Charged | ThinkProgress (via ericasavestheday)

What a greatly fittig coincidence that “Santorum” also means the semen-and-feces by-product of anal sex.

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1 year ago
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ghostmonkey
Petition against the bill to audit rape survivors

ghostmonkey:

This needs to stop. Women don’t take the decision to get an abortion lightly, and Congress (83.2% male) is treating us like children.

You all need to sign this. Pro-choice or not, auditing rape survivors is simply disgusting, and we should all be able to agree on that.

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1 year ago
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prolifehypocrisy
"I am pro choice because I have seen a 12 year old incest victim deliver a child and then proceed to have a pulmonary embolism and die. She never had a choice not to have sex. She never had a choice to use birth control. She never had a choice to terminate her pregnancy. She never had a choice to live.
- Anonymous"

Via (via blackenedbutterfly)

Now this just makes me want to cry.

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