This is what a “prolife” world would look like.

That girl deserved better.

“A. It forces women to take into account the sensibility of people who don’t have firsthand information about what the circumstances are in that woman’s life. It creates a duty and obligation for a woman to make her decision in a time frame acceptable to people other than herself. That time frame may or may not be realistic, and it fails to take into account the complexity of decision-making when it comes to abortion.

As people sit around, and theorize and debate about what should be a reasonable or common ground, the voices of the people who are most affected by this decision are lost. They aren’t represented in these dialogues. Their specific realities don’t count.”

Go read this immediately.

Dear “pro-life” anti-choicers:

This is what your anti-abortion stance, your callous disregard for the people involved in an already fraught situation, does. This is the practical effect of your belief that you have a right to dictate and control someone else’s life.

I am so angry that you gleefully enact laws that make people suffer, that put people through hours upon hours of unnecessary turmoil, that heaps one indignity upon them after another, all while you pat yourself on the back for a job well done and go back to your nice, cushy world where you don’t have to acknowledge the effects of your tyranny. I am furious that you are so choked with your own smug self righteousness that you are blinded the heartache and the reality of other’s situations—a heartache you have caused and magnified ten fold.

I am disgusted and contemptuous of your paternalism, that you think you know what’s best for anyone other than yourself, that you ignore and deny the rights of 50% of the population, deny the dignity of their humanity, because of “the children” and “the greater good” and “religion” and “morality.”

Allow me to express a sentiment from every fiber of my being: fuck you.

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“I’m so sorry that I have to do this,” the doctor told us, “but if I don’t, I can lose my license.” Before he could even start to describe our baby, I began to sob until I could barely breathe. Somewhere, a nurse cranked up the volume on a radio, allowing the inane pronouncements of a DJ to dull the doctor’s voice. Still, despite the noise, I heard him. His unwelcome words echoed off sterile walls while I, trapped on a bed, my feet in stirrups, twisted away from his voice.

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

Utah women would have to wait three days before an abortion, the longest such waiting period in the country, under a proposal that won overwhelming approval from the House Monday with little debate.

“An abortion cannot be undone,” said Rep. Steve Eliason, R-Sandy. “Why would we not want to afford a woman facing a life-changing decision 72 hours to consider ramifications that could last a lifetime?”

HB461 would require a woman to wait 72 hours after receiving information on the procedures being used, the gestational stages of the fetus and services available if she chooses not to seek an abortion. Current Utah law imposes a 24-hour waiting period.

An amendment to the bill sought to ease the burden on women in rural areas by allowing them to get the counseling to start the clock from other providers, rather than having to go to the clinic that would provide the procedure.

The bill passed the House 59-11 and moves to the Senate for consideration before the Legislature adjourns Thursday.

[NB: This will affect more people than just cis women. And, as always, it will hurt poor people disproportionately.]

Also - should add, Utah does NOT have a 72-hr waiting period for purchasing a firearm. 

I just…when will this bullshit end?

(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)