keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

stfuconservatives:

Seriously. -Jess

As Flavia pointed out on Twitter, Johnson asks, “What if in this case, human rights and women’s rights conflict?” To which I replied, “It’s no surprise that Johnson doesn’t think women ARE humans.” And Flavia, “that’s her belief system in one single sentence you know”

Charming.

Gosh, I just have this weird excess of freedom.

Yeah, ok. 

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If abortion and birth control become illegal 

prolongedeyecontact:

bebinn:

deathbysharpie:

What will happen:

sex

What won’t happen:

safe sex

What will happen:

abortion

What won’t happen:

safe abortions

Can’t put it much more simply than that.

#TRUTH

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stfuconservatives:

Sigh. They got rid of the extra-invasive transvaginal ultrasound part, but you still have to get a (medically unnecessary) ultrasound before an abortion. Virginia: NOT for lovers.

-Jess

nooooooooooooooo.com

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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

I keep wanting to scream, “TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS ARE ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TODAY IN TEXAS!!!!”

Texas has THREE times as many people as Virginia AND they already have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions (I also have no hard data but I’m going to guess that Texas probably…

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alissarubinstein:

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

think-progress:

Hundreds silently protest the Virginia bill that would force women to undergo involuntary vaginal penetration before receiving an abortion.

HT @maddowblog, Delegate Mark Sickles

[NB: The bill would force any person who wants/needs an abortion to undergo involuntary vaginal penetration.]

AND according to reporting on the Rachel Maddow Show this evening:

the transvaginal (aka penetrative) ultrasound would also be a) medically unnecessary and b) mandated by the government despite a doctor recommending against it

(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)

"He noted he had a conversation with one GOP lawmaker regarding his amendment where the lawmaker had told him that women had already made the decision to be “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant." —

Del. David Englin (D-Alexandria)

Regarding “a controversial measure [that was debated in Virginia] to require trans-vaginal ultrasounds before a woman can get an abortion.”

[NB: more than just cis women need and want access to abortion care.]

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WHAT.

WHAT WHAT WHAT?! 

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prochoicegeneration:

I CAN’T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE MY OUTRAGE

So, it’s just the house, so far, but that’s not necessarily so reassuring. I feel the need to copy-paste the entire article, so here it is:

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A House Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years to passage over passionate objections from Democrats. 

Del. Bob Marshall’s House Bill 1 would effectively outlaw all Virginia abortions by declaring that the rights of persons apply from the moment sperm and egg unite. It passed Tuesday on a vote of 66-32.

Opponents called the measure draconian, noting that voters in Mississippi last fall resoundingly rejected adding a “personhood amendment” to their state constitution.

Marshall called opponents alarmists.

On a 63-36 vote, the House passed a bill that requires women to have a transvaginal ultrasound before undergoing abortions.

Democratic Del. Charnielle Herring said it literally mandates invasive probes of women. Republican Del. Todd Gilbert dismissed most abortions as “matters of lifestyle convenience.” 

My conclusion: yes, less scary in that it’s only gone through one part of the legislature (not that I’m not worried about them going through the other part and being signed because I definitely am), but holy crap, absolutely terrifying in terms of rhetoric. 

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"Really, conservatives just hate women. They resent the fact that we work, go to school, vote, everything. Their entire stance on birth control, abortions and social programs is a thinly veiled attempt to take us back to a time when we had less rights. Take away our birth control and we get pregnant. Take away our abortions and we have to keep the baby (in their minds, anyway). Take away certain social programs to help support ourselves (mainly food stamps, WIC and housing assistance) and they think that will force us to get married to a man who can support us. Take away other social programs like daycare subsidies and then we have no choice but to stay at home and take care of the kids because the cost of daycare eats into any additional income. Men who have always relied on their male privilege to get them through life cannot handle seeing a women succeed, or even exist, without them. They figure if you keep kicking them back down, they’ll eventually give up and settle for some loser who doesn’t deserve them but has been given all the opportunities in the world to succeed because he possesses a penis." —

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thedailywhat:

Abortion Bill Amendment of the Day: The Virginia state Senate went ahead today with a bill that would require pregnant women to obtain an ultrasound prior to an abortion, after rejecting a Democratic senator’s amendment that would have required men to undergo a rectal exam and cardiac stress test prior to obtaining erectile dysfunction medication.

The amendment’s author, Fairfax County Democrat Janet Howell, said she was merely trying to add “a little gender equality” to the bill.

“It’s requiring [women] to have unnecessary medical procedures, it’s adding to the cost and it’s opening them up for emotional blackmail,” she told her colleagues from the Senate floor. “And I was upset because it’s disrespectful of doctors. It’s forcing them to perform procedures they don’t think is necessary.”

She says she got the idea for the amendment after watching an erectile dysfunction drug ad which listed the pill’s myriad side effects.

“So, I said, it’s only fair, that if we’re going to subject women to unnecessary procedures, and we’re going to subject doctors to having to do things that they don’t think is medically advisory, well, Mr. President, I think we should just have a little gender equity here,” Howell said.

The amendment was ultimately defeated by a relatively narrow margin of 21 to 19. Meanwhile, Senate Bill 484 moves forward to a final floor vote tomorrow.

[roanoketimes.]

What the fuck is this bullshit.

^ My initial gut reaction of anger because if something is not medically necessary for a procedure, then requiring it is only invasive, and it’s invasive in so many ways.

Not the least of which is it’s invasion in the right to bodily autonomy.

So someone seeking an abortion in Virginia—should this bill pass and get signed etc.—would have no choice but to undergo a further procedure TO THEIR BODY that has nothing to do with the medical safety or anything else of an abortion. A further procedure that will also, of course, cost more time and money.

Why is my state like this? Why is it trying to drive me away with policies that make me viscerally afraid for my body such that my physical instinct is to tuck into a protective ball around myself?

"A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’" — Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)

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See pearl clutching in my news feed about the comparative lack of barriers to abortion in a certain state, immediately “like” Planned Parenthood and share a link to a graphic about the antichoice measures enacted throughout the US in 2011, stating my disapproval of it.

beardsbeerandliterarybadassery:

ivegottheconch:

pinkgoldglittering:

victoryjobs:

khaleesi:

kingslayers:

whoistorule:

labocat:

Taken from the Honest Girl Scouts campaign. For a campaign trying to get people /not/ to buy cookies and /not/ support the GSUSA, this is doing an awful lot to suddenly make me want /to/ support the GSUSA. (and I’m saying this a a former Girl Scout of about 6 years who hasn’t bought cookies in years because they’re too expensive). 

I see so much acceptance here, and especially in a time in children’s lives where acceptance is so important, taking that away from them is just cruel.

oh man I really want to buy girl scout cookies now

good i’ll continue to buy girl sout cookies

 also ugh at “claims to be catholic” …  u g h 

CACKLING IRL

thin mints just got even more delicious

Ugh, how dare the Girl Scouts teach young girls to be sexually healthy, strong, supportive, all-inclusive, powerful women? Such a shame our country has come to this.

*buys ALL the Thin Mints*

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!

I am buying all of the Girl Scout cookies. My girls will be Girl Scouts. 

All I see are reasons why the Girl Scouts are kind of awesome.

Also, I want Samoas, stat.

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