December 10, 2009
“ Work alone is your privilege, never the fruits thereof.
B.K.S. Inyegar
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December 9, 2009
December 7, 2009
3 days ago • 201 notesnapturality:stfuconservatives:
What I like about this image is that it’s multi-layered. Let me explain:
1) She’s in her third trimester. Do you really think liberal women are running around aborting third-term pregnancies? Ninety percent of abortions occur in the first trimester.
2) She’s wearing hooker makeup and feminist-symbol earrings… oh, I get it! Because liberals and feminists are whores!
3) “Liberal compassion” is what allows women - even a woman like this - the right to choose motherhood, instead of being forced in to it.
She also isn’t wearing a wedding ring which adds to the “feminists are whores” message
Those aren’t even “feminist” earrings. They are symbols that simply denote “female.” And you forgot to mention the big mouth and angry facial expression…so typical of feminists, dontchaknow, being so unladylike as to feel anger and express it!
Considering the circumstances under which the vast majority of abortions take place at that stage in the game, I don’t know how you can have anything but compassion for the women who have them.
This.
I wish it was possible to get it through the heads of the anti-abortion crowd that there are only about 1100 or so late-term abortions performed each year, and that they are almost all (as far as I can tell) of babies that are wanted, but who have serious health problems that make their chances of survival slim. How anyone can have anything other than compassion for people who go through that tragedy is just beyond me. This cartoon also assumes that it’s only the woman’s choice, which I suppose it ultimately is, but I think it’s worth remembering that many of the late-term abortions performed each year are cases where there is a couple involved, and often an entire family.
Maybe someone could paint a picture of a devastated couple and their children and grandparents and friends standing in a nursery they designed with a new baby in mind—a baby that they found out, late in the pregnancy, was not going to survive. Or that they found out would bankrupt their family with medical bills and require lifelong care to the detriment of its older siblings (or that would prevent the family from ever having the chance to have another child). Or that they found was going to kill the mother if she attempted to carry it to term. Or maybe a picture of a husband and children at the funeral of a woman whose life could have been saved by a late-term abortion.
It fucking infuriates me that the anti-choice folks choose to exploit these tragedies and villainize the women (and only the women, as if we live in a vacuum with no family, husbands, partners, or other children) who have to go through a procedure that, in my opinion, sounds pretty damn traumatic on its own.
As if there are women out there who just can’t fucking wait to murder their babies. As if late-term abortions are common-place and normal (hint: they’re fucking NOT—there are relatively strict controls on the procedure). And don’t even get me started on the fact that many of the procedures that are lumped into the “partial-birth abortion” statistics are actually procedures that were performed to remove an already dead baby (maybe they could wrap their head around the pain of a late-term miscarriage).
Fuck these people. Fuck their mysogyny. Fuck their hatefulness. Fuck their habit of being oh-so-concerned for “the unborn” with no consideration at all for any people in a situation who are old enough to have an opinion on the matter.
BRAVO.
