Mississippi’s Sole Abortion Provider in Danger

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

A group of women has formed a new political action committee to recruit and support candidates to defeat elected officials who back the ultrasound and so-called personhood bills.

Women’s Strike Force, which boasts several former elected officials, formed after Virginia spent last week in national headlines for its attempt to require women to undergo mandatory trans-vaginal ultrasounds before an abortion.

“As a former member of the General Assembly and Virginia’s first woman in Congress, I fought for women’s rights in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s,” Leslie Byrne said in a statement. “We must move the commonwealth and the nation forward, not backslide to denying women rights.”

This is amazing and I’m pleased to see people reacting in this way.

[NB: It’s more than just cis women’s rights that are backsliding. Also, I keep saying this, but this is not simply the burden of ladies. I appreciate and am pleased that (cis) women are leading the charge but this should really be everyone’s concern.]

(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)

glitter-femin1sts:

Stop the proposed Personhood Act! 

The OK Personhood Act will deny abortions even for victims of sexual assualt and in cases where it is medically necessary to save a person’s life.

Oklahoma is about to pass the Personhood Act, which gives embryos constitutional rights at the moment of conception. This bill would also outlaw abortions, even if its medically necessary to save the parent’s life and in cases of rape and incest.

If you have time, please sign this.

I don’t know about all of you, but I’m kind of sick of people trying to take away reproductive rights.

It isn’t cool.

-Alex

cosmicspread:

[Image: a black and white photo of a nude woman’s torso with text toward the right, “my fucking choice”, each word in a circle. End description.]

my body is not your vessel

for Kandace Hagen

Abortion has been legal in Canada since a Supreme Court ruling in 1988, however, government officials on Prince Edward Island have stripped the residents of their reproductive rights and prohibited access to local, safe and funded abortions. PRRO was founded in 2011 to help inform PEI residents of their current reproductive rights, and to campaign for safe and affordable access to abortions on the island. 

For more information, check out: http://www.prro.tk/

To get involved, pledge with Kandace (not monetary! simply a statement!) at: http://www.2012.active8campaign.com/global-youth-ambassadors/kandace-hagen/pledge-with-kandace/

Signal boost!

[Image: Kathy Griffin putting up two middle fingers and saying into a microphone, “Fuck you, fuck you.” End description.]

[Image: “Personhood refocuses the pro-life movement on the issues of human rights and dignity.” An arrow pointing to a female-presenting silhouette is labeled, “not a person”, and one pointing to a photo of a zygote says, “person”. End description.]

Personhood bills are scary as fuck. If you think an unborn individual is more important than the person carrying it, or even just equally as important, then you are deluding yourself.

(Source: fuckyeahfeminists)

[Image: text stencil-painted on a blue wall, “a woman, not a womb.” with a feminist symbol, a fist in the middle of the Roman Venus symbol. End description.]

*person

But yes.

(Source: iblamethenubbins)