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$352 left for the in clinic abortion. This is because the initial pill did not work after my assault. I have until May 25th (Saturday) before my first trimester ends and the cost goes up. I am offering tarot readings and @scarsofbeauty is doing art commissions!!
$145 and a day left! (05/23/2024)
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TW: Abortion and the mentions of: rape, incest, abuse, death
As a woman who lives in Texas, I am so appalled at the direction our state government is taking us.
Abortions are important to womens’ health for so many reasons. It allows rape victims (incest or otherwise) a choice in the aftermath. It saves the lives of women who cannot carry to term (for whatever reason). It allows women to have a future, because sometimes we just can’t afford a child - there’s so many women who had a child young and struggled because of it.
It gives women a choice. Just because a woman consents to sex doesn’t mean she consents to carry that individuals’ child - for any reason.
We are regressing, and it is dangerous. If women can’t get an abortion through legal, sterile methods - abortion clinics and hospitals - then they will go elsewhere. Banning abortions will only end with more women and unborn children dead, because they will find a way - either by ‘back-alley doctors’ in unsanitary conditions, through overdosing on drugs or alcohol, or physically damaging their bodies in other ways to force a miscarriage.
Our country is too focused on the unborn and not on the living. They are forcing women to carry children they do not want - and then, once the child is born, they leave the women and children to their own devices. “You should have kept your legs closed,” they say. “You should have planned for this,” they sneer.
“It’s your fault,” they say.
Our country forces women to give birth and then looks down on them for doing exactly what they were forced to do. We don’t have enough social nets to help these people in their forced situations - oh no, that’s communism, that’s socialism, and we’re capitalist. Bootstraps and scraps, you should be able to make it work - they did it after all. (But that’s our economic troubles, which is another basket of awful that I could soapbox about too).
Women do not deserve to be forced into carrying children they do not want - for whatever reason it is they do not want the child. Adoption is a laughable option; again, our social nets are shit. According to this website, there are 950 children waiting for adoption in Texas alone. This website lists siblings jointly, though, so that number is actually much higher - 104 of the 950 have at least two individuals listed (so, if we’re counting, that’s at least 1,054 children) that are waiting to be adopted right now.
Forcing children to live in group homes, in foster homes, because you want to punish women for enjoying sex just like men do is despicable. Children should be born into families that want them, not into homes that are forced to hopefully, best-case-scenario, love and care for them.
Worst case, they’ll be abused - in any form and fashion of the word - or killed.
I’ve gone on a rant, and I’ll close it up here with this: They are focusing way too hard on the life of these unborn children. They need to focus on the quality of life they are giving, instead. The ones who seek abortions are the ones who know, one way or another, that the childs’ quality of life will not be enough. These women are making a huge, painful, life-altering choice to terminate their child because they know that the child will not have a good life with them. That is responsible, and we should not punish women for taking control and responsibility of their life.
We should never take away anyones choice.
Abortion rights are under attack, and it’s time to fight back.
If you think this is just about Texas or ‘red’ states, you’re wrong. Attacks on abortion anywhere are a threat to our rights everywhere. Today Texas’ SB8 takes effect. This dangerous and extreme law bans abortion as early as six weeks (way before most people even know they’re pregnant) and includes an unprecedent provision that allows private individuals - including anti-abortion protestors - to file lawsuits enforcing the bans. There’s even a monetary reward - up to $10,000 - for successful lawsuits. There have been over 90 abortion restrictions enacted this year alone - more than any year since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. It’s time to raise the alarm - keep #bansoffourbodies. What can you do? Follow and donate to: West Fund, @BuckleBunniesFundTX (Instagram & Twitter), Jane’s Due Process, The Bridge Collective ATX, Fund Texas Choice, @LaFronteraFund (on Twitter), Texas Equal Access Fund - TEA Fund, The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, Clinic Access Support Network & The Afiya Center.Sending love and access to all Texans.
I’m just... I’m so speechless. I live in Texas [ugh] and many people I know have been downplaying the Heartbeat Act, ‘you can always go to another state’ [WHY tho, I live here], ‘nothing would happen to you’ [white woman], ‘it’s not that big of a deal’ [it IS], and so much more. No one is taking it seriously, and they won’t until it’s far too late. I got sterilized because of the Heartbeat Act, because I am terrified of bearing children [which should not be mixed with raising children, because I am 100% down for that shit]. I almost broke up with my boyfriend because he thought sterilization was a nuclear-level response to my fear of being/becoming pregnant - literally the only fight I’ve ever had with him, because he just doesn’t get it. He loves me, respects me, but thinks I’m going to regret having my tubes removed -- but fuck it, even if I do regret it, at least I can’t be forced to term in this hellscape.
He and most of the rest of the people in my life [to include my mom, who was ride-or-die for my surgery but still doesn’t understand why I’d be so upset about Roe v Wade, bless her confused heart] just can’t seem to grasp that this is a war on women - and We. Are. Losing.
Abortion rights allowed women agency over their bodies. It allowed them to relieve financial burdens - because they are still in school [hell, they could be a teenager/minor, not that a middle-aged woman has less of a right than this hypothetical kid] - or emotional burdens - because they are pregnant with their rapists’ child [and sometimes, their familial rapist, for the ‘fun’ incest twist].
They are tired of people not having kids, of not having peons to staff their businesses and slave their lives away, that they are forcing the matter. And I hate it.
Didn’t mean to rant, but fuck if this isn’t my soapbox. I’m down for civil conversation, but don’t attack me - or any other woman - for their choices when it comes to abortion or sterilization. It’s a heavy, hard choice but I made it with both eyes wide open.
Thank you to the brave SCOTUS clerk or staffer that probably committed career suicide to leak the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade when they knew the whole country would be glued to the internet looking for Met Gala looks.
As we watch elite rich people flaunt their wealth, remember that reproductive rights are being chipped away more and more everyday. While abortion remains legal nationwide for two more months, you are witnessing a direct attack on folks who can get pregnant, and specifically on Black, Latines, Asian and Indigenous folks.
And remember that it doesn't stop here. The implications are extreme and next on the list are Lawrence v. Texas (case that legalized sodomy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (case that legalized same-sex marriage). The draft opinion refers to see as phony rights. People are going to die on a large scale because of this.
In my country (Russia) so abortions have been banned, and this is terrible, since the authorities do not feel sorry for us. Young men have to die in a FUCKING SMO (Special Military Operation), prohibit LGBT, opposition and abortion, turning Russian girls into "incubators for the birth of cannon fodder."
If you still have a choice, then I DON'T HAVE ONE IN MY HOMELAND AND I CAN'T LEAVE RUSSIA BECAUSE OF MY FINANCIAL CONDITION!
They put up anti-abortion displays at my college. You can't see it from this side, but one of the banners literally says, "Abortion is murder."
I want to switch schools.
It was never about the babies, but it doesn’t matter even if it was.
Do not use Discord to seek an abortion. Discord willingly hands out user data to the cops.
Use Signal to communicate for seeking an abortion, they use double ended encryption
hi uh i keep seeing this being debated on tiktok and as your resident adult with a history of infertility who knows just.. way too much about pregnancy and hcg tests: if you are capable of getting pregnant, you really REALLY need to understand how drugstore pregnancy tests work. if there is a line, no matter how faint, that test is POSITIVE. I’ve seen people test positive and get a negative or start their period a few days later and be like “it must have been a false positive”. actual false positives are extremely rare. what most likely happened is something called a ‘chemical pregnancy’ which is when an egg is fertilized but does not implant in the uterus so the pregnancy does not continue. that positive test was not faulty or false, it was just an early test.
if you think you might be pregnant, get your hands on a test. you don’t need the fancy digital ones. the ones you can buy at places like the dollar tree work just as well. buy a few and take one every day until your period comes on if you need to. if there is a FAINT line you aren’t sure about (sometimes tests have something called an indent that makes a shadow that can be mistaken as a very very faint line), test again the next day. as a general rule, morning is the best time to test for most people.
in a post-roe america, is it vitally necessary that you know and understand that because if you intend to terminate, your window is incredibly small in most states and by the time you’ve missed a period or begun to suspect you might be pregnant, there’s a decent chance you are past the cutoff. please please please educate yourselves on this because it could mean the difference between you having access to the healthcare that you need.
I'm so sorry for everything that's happened to you and your newborns, but thank you for sharing. You're absolutely right -- we don't need a gathering of holier-than-thou white supremist jerks to make a choice for the people actually going through this kind of experience.
THIS IS THE BUSINESS OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY DEALING WITH THIS TOPIC. NOT DELUSIONAL KNOW-IT-ALLS THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW REPRODUCTION WORKS.
I was 30 years old.
I was married.
We were happy.
We were established.
Our 401k runneth over.
We decided to start a family.
I got pregnant right away.
Like right away.
We were over the moon.
I kept a journal of every day of the magic.
I got a bump.
I felt our baby kick.
I embraced it fully.
I rejected tests because "it won't change our path"
Emily sent out baby shower invitations.
The nursery was under way.
And then.
I'm almost halfway there!
I'm 18 and a half weeks pregnant.
The doctor called.
It was 7pm.
I was out at dinner with my friend Deb.
I stepped outside.
The day before on a whim I agreed to a blood test.
"There's probably nothing to worry about but we need you to come in. There's a 1 in 36 chance something is wrong"
I called Liza sobbing.
My sister told me to lay out 36 straws and see that there's still such a good chance that everything is fine.
I didn't sleep.
We drove up to Forsyth because that was the first available amniocentesis.
The needle was long.
The room was dark.
The news was really bad.
I changed in that moment forever.
It's a girl!
We had named her Audrey.
Audrey Roesel -- the girl who will make me a mom.
She was missing her nasal bone.
Her kidneys were tiny.
Her heart was missing a chamber.
She had an extra chromosome.
Part of her brain wasn't formed.
Her head was growing at a rate 4x faster than her limbs.
I want to be a mom.
This is my girl.
This situation could really hurt my body.
She will be in immeasurable pain.
I didn't understand "incompatible with life"
I cried.
I cried some more.
I was already a mom.
Moms keep their children from pain.
Time is ticking.
I'm 19.5 weeks now.
We are in Georgia.
There's a time limit, you know.
It's Labor Day now.
Doctors go on vacation.
Somehow the world around us keeps on.
Not for me.
In the interest of time...
They sent me to an abortion clinic.
Me.
At an abortion clinic.
After 20 weeks, it's illegal, you know.
It's the night before.
I ran a bath.
I said goodbye to my daughter in that tub.
Just the two of us before the world turned upside down.
Did you know...
You have to go 2 days in a row?
1 to dilate
1 for a D&E
It was brutal emotionally.
It hurt physically.
I begged to be put under.
A kind doctor took my hand.
His hands were large and warm.
He told me I would be a mom one day.
He was an angel.
I woke up in a group recovery room.
In a recliner. Next to a young girl. Maybe 13. She was also recovering. I took her hand.
My milk came in.
Nobody told me.
It hurt in my body and my soul.
I grieved. Hard.
For months and months.
I held onto a teddy bear the size of a newborn.
I ached everywhere inside and out.
It was a fluke they said.
Fast forward four months.
Pregnant again.
Scared.
Excited.
First ultrasound.
Baby’s gone.
Go to the hospital for D&C.
This is also considered abortion.
They tested the tissue.
it was a boy!
Chromosomes were normal.
Isn’t that good news?
Grief ensued.
So did genetic testing B and me.
I’m not ashamed.
I never was.
I’m what abortion looks like.
So is the 13 year old girl in that recovery room.
In Texas we’d be criminals.
Access to safe abortion is a woman’s right.
And abortion is a decision to be made between a woman, her doctor, her family, and her god.
...Not a majority white male cohort of politicians with a false sense of morality.
And your judgement?
It matters not.
wilson got you pregnant right?
dogboy daughter or catgirl son
id rather have an abortion
are you asking because you want to?
dogboy daughter or catgirl son
id rather have an abortion
God i don’t wanna get too dark and too deep into serious issues but like
Warning for discussion about pregnancy and the termination thereof
Do you think Marie chose to keep Henry because even back then she was forming her plan to come back to GC and take everyone out??? Do you think she was like “fuck I’m not ready to be a mom but boy it would sure be convenient to have someone to help me when I eventually take my revenge”
I mean to me her decision to keep Henry was influenced by
1) the lack of resources to the contrary
2) the belief that Henry is George’s legacy and the last link she has to him
3) her own cultural and personal beliefs if she happened to have any
4) she believed Henry was some divine gift to help her enact her murderous revenge plan
5) she was incredibly lonely and having him there helped ease her loneliness
Sorry that was so serious, to make up for it how about you think of Marie and Henry as little bats. Baby bat Henry clinging to his bat mama as she cuddles him with her big wings