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Anonymous asked: Ron Paul is NOT racist, sexist or homophobic, please do some research. He’s the only honest candidate who has a real plan that will save the country. The media is ignoring/labelling him because they know he has the right idea and they don’t want what’s best for the people.

sanityscraps:

Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband NATO, end birthright citizenship, deny federal funding to any organisation which “which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggest that it can be an acceptable life style” along with destroying public education and social security, and abolish the Federal Reserve in order to put America back on the gold standard. He was also the sole vote against divesting US federal government investments in corporations doing business with the genocidal government of the Sudan.

Oh, and he believes that the Left is waging a war on religion and Christmas, he’s against gay marriage, is against the popular vote, opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, wants the estate tax repealed, is STILL making racist remarks, believes that the Panama Canal should be the property of the United States, and believes in New World Order conspiracy theories, not to mention his belief that the International Baccalaureate program is UN mind control.

(h/t)

Now as I said in another post literally just today, I don’t like Ron Paul because he’ll leave certain things alone as “states’ issues.” But history has proven that doesn’t work. Human rights trump states’ rights. A state is not a person; a human is a person. Human rights don’t get to be voted on.

BAM.

I don’t like abortion

stfusexists:

aaronitron:

buttermequeasy:

I don’t like contraceptives, I don’t like anything that lets people have sex and not experience the consequence of it, not that babies are a consequence, but you know what I mean.

For me, sex is something that should be between a married couple, or a couple who has the intention of having a baby. No teenagers, I don’t think it’s appropriate for you to be having sex at this age, but what the fuck am I going to do, it’s your life not mine.

I feel the same way. Kyle and I, we don’t use any kind of birth control for the very reason described. I mean we’re really hoping we have a baby soon. We try over and over and over again, but for some reason it just hasn’t worked. I’m starting to wonder if I am, well, barren. What other explanation could there be?!

But I’m so happy to know that there are other decent, moral people out there who understand what sex is really about.

aaronitron’s bio: “One, 23 year-old, gay-male, houseboyfriend from Seattle, Washington.”

I AM NOW DEAD.

So many ♥’s for aaronitron XD

And buttermequeasy/usedtofeellikeheaven is apparently unaware that married couples use contraception and have abortions, too.

When I say I’m pro-life…

desliz:

speakfortheweak:

It doesn’t mean I’m religious.
Because I’m not.

It doesn’t mean I hate LGBT community.
Because I am a supporter.

It doesn’t mean I force women to give birth.
Because I never will.

Take what you want from my blog, but never assume I’m just your stereotypical pro-lifer. It is VERY possible to ask questions, state your opinions in a civil manner on this blog. I am respectful and I enjoy answering all questions received! 

Thanks for following! :)
-speakfortheweak 

Let me tell you some things.

I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world.

First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty. Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving community where women and girls feel safe and supported in times of need. Because guess what? They aren’t. You know what happens to babies born under such circumstances? They get hurt, unnecessarily. They get sick, unnecessarily. They get removed from parents who love them but who are unprepared for the burden of a child. Resources? Honey, we try. There aren’t enough resources anywhere. There are waiting lists, and promises, and maybes. If the government itself can’t hook people up, what makes you think an impoverished single mom can handle it?

Abolish poverty. Do you have any idea how much childcare costs? Daycare can cost as much or more than monthly rent. They may be inadequately staffed. Getting a private nanny is a nice idea, but they don’t come cheap either. Relatives? Do they own a car? Does the bus run at the right times? Do they have jobs of their own they need to work just to keep the lights on? Are they going to stick around until you get off you convenience store shift at 4 AM? Do they have criminal histories that will make them unsuitable as caregivers when CPS pokes around? You gonna pay for that? Who’s going to pay for that?

End rape. I know your type errs on the side of blaming the woman, but I’ve seen little girls who’ve barely gotten their periods pregnant because somebody thought raping preteens was an awesome idea. You want to put a child through that? Or someone with a mental or physical inability for whom pregnancy would be frightening, painful or even life-threatening? I’ve seen nonverbal kids who had their feet sliced up by caregivers for no fucking reason at all, you think sexual abuse doesn’t happen either?

You say there’s lots of couples who want to adopt. Kiddo, what they want to adopt are healthy white babies, preferably untainted by the wombs and genetics of women with alcohol or drug dependencies. I’ve seen the kids they don’t want, who almost no one wants. You people focus only on the happy pink babies, the gigglers, the ones who grow and grow with no trouble. Those are not the kids who linger in foster care. Those are certainly not the older kids and teenagers who age out of foster care and then are thrown out in the streets, usually with an array of medical and mental health issues. Are they too old to count?

And yeah, I’ve seen the babies, little hand-sized things barely clinging to life. There’s no glory, no wonder there. There is no wonder in a pregnant woman with five dollars to her name, so deep in depression you wonder if she’ll be alive in a week. Therapy costs money. Medicine costs money. Food, clothes, electricity cost money. Government assistance is a pittance; poverty drives women and girls into situations where they are forced to rely on people who abuse them to survive. (I’ve been up in more hospitals than I can count.)

In each and every dark pit of desperation, I have never seen a pro-lifer. I ain’t never seen them babysitting, scrubbing floors, bringing over goods, handing mom $50 bucks a month or driving her to the pediatrician. I ain’t never seen them sitting up for hours with an autistic child who screams and rages so his mother can get some sleep while she rests up from working 14-hour days. I don’t see them fixing leaks in rundown houses or playing with a kid while the police prepare to interview her about her sexual abuse. They’re not paying for the funerals of babies and children who died after birth, when they truly do become independent organisms. And the crazy thing is they think they’ve already done their job, because the child was born!

Aphids give birth, girl. It’s no miracle. You want to speak for the weak? Get off your high horse and get your hands dirty helping the poor, the isolated, the ill and mentally ill women and mothers and their children who already breathe the dirty air. You are doing nothing, absolutely nothing, for children. You don’t have a flea’s comprehension of injustice. You are not doing shit for life until you get in there and fight that darkness. Until you understand that abortion is salvation in a world like ours. Does that sound too hard? Do you really think suffering post-birth is more permissible, less worthy of outrage?

“Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman.

Reblogged for the commentary…

Contribute to the Hyde Amendment Art Project!

fuckyeahfeminists:

Background:

The Hyde Amendment limits access to comprehensive reproductive health care by prohibiting federal funding for abortion. It was first approved by congress on September 30th, 1976, and it has been reapproved every year since. The Hyde Amendment has had devastating consequences for low-income people, and disproportionately affects people of color and immigrants; it is not uncommon for a woman on Medicaid to put off paying electricity bills, sell belongings, jeopardize housing, or go hungry trying to save up the money to pay for an abortion. (For more information about the Hyde Amendment:  www.fundabortionnow​.org/learn/hyde)

This September marks the Hyde Amendment’s 35th Anniversary. Enough is enough. Our voices need to be heard by policymakers and people’s stories need to reach the public.

About the Project:

The Repeal Hyde Art Project is a community art project – and we need your help. The end product will be an expansive art installation: each individual submission will highlight a person’s unique contribution, and the total exhibition will display our unified message to repeal Hyde.

The installation will be a voluminous flock of birds, with each bird displaying an individual message about why the Hyde Amendment should be repealed. (Examples can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/repealhydeartproject/)

The installation will be on September 30th - place TBA

Get Involved:

1. Download the “Repeal Hyde Bird” image here:www.flickr.com/photos/repealhydeartproject/6023923260/

(Or create your own!!)

2. Cut out the bird

3. Write a message on the back about why you think the Hyde Amendment should be repealed

4. Mail finished submissions to:

Repeal Hyde Art Project
POB 380192
Cambridge, MA 02238

5. Send us as many submission as you want & invite your friends to this event!

There’s a Facebook event about it here.

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

New NC Restrictions Will Become Law (Shakesville)

Well, yesterday the NC legislature has overridden [the Governor of NC’s] veto. The law requires women [and all people who want an abortion] to have an ultrasound, a 24-hour waiting period, and state-written counseling delivered as a speech by her doctor. Women will be required to hear about the health risks of abortion and also “abortion alternatives”. Apparently women who are seeking abortions in NC have no awareness of any other option and haven’t thought them out, amirite?

Oh and it gets even better because anyone who does not follow these new regulations can now be sued by a woman who had an abortion—or one who nearly did and changed her mind. Or her spouse/partner. Or her parent(s)/guardian(s). OR her sibling(s).

The new law will take effect in 90 days.

Pro-life (Trigger Warning for Rape)

stfuhypocrisy:

propaganda-for-life:

demonstrativenotdemonstrative:

Pro-life is NOT anti-sex.

And it doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with Christianity. People need to stop associating the two with each other.

Being pro-life has to do with morals.

And being responsible.
If abortion was used for things OTHER THAN using it as a way to escape the consequences of your actions, and not using protection, then things would all be different.

But the problem lies with all those little teenage girls who are going to abortion clinics because they chose to have sex without protection, or didn’t protect themselves enough.

Those teens think they are grown enough to have sex and play around with it, but when it comes time to pay the bill, they want out.

That’s why it’s stupid.

Rape victims don’t count, neither do people who get pregnant and can’t continue with it for medical reasons, i.e. tubal pregnancies, having to go off meds for it, etc etc.

This isn’t addressing those cases, it’s addressing those women who kill their future child because they “can’t have kids at this time” or “aren’t ready to be a mom.”

Well maybe they should have thought of that before they opened their legs without the proper precautionary actions.

#end rant. 

You don’t once mention here that life is sacred or any of that bull. Not once. So, considering also you also make the rape exception, you aren’t in this for the poor fetuses. You’re in this because you don’t want women to be sexually independent, and you want women who have sex recreationally to be punished for their choices with nine months of pregnancy, the most painful childbirth experience of all mammals, and either raising a baby which will cost $500,000 or more over its lifetime or giving it away for adoption, which can be far more emotionally scarring than an abortion.

Seriously, sex serves purposes in human beings other than reproduction. It’s a method of bonding and recreation for us, as well, and you have to respect that this is wired into our psychology. There are some people who never want kids; do you honestly expect them to never have sex as well? Don’t you slut-shame on me.

Precautions such as condoms and birth control can also fail, and hell, the Guttmacher Institute released a study which revealed that around half of all people seeking abortions were using some precautionary method during the month they became pregnant. How about them cookies?

Most people seeking abortions are in their 20s, not their teens. That’s a total stereotype. Again, Guttmacher Institute study.

Pointing out ignorance to people’s own misogyny like a boss. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of this.

Hold up.

“Pro-life is NOT anti-sex.”

“Well maybe they should have thought of that before they opened their legs without the proper precautionary actions.”

Do you wanna try telling me that again with a straight face?

54% of people seeking abortions were using some form of contraception. Of those who weren’t, about 30% was because they had concerns with contraception ie; latex allergies, blood clot risks from the pill etc. Another approx 30% were told they couldn’t get pregnant ie; infertile, vasectomies/tubes tied etc. Only 8% had never used protection ever, and the remaining percentage I can’t remember off the top of my head.

Regardless, it’s not up to you to decide how every pregnancy happens, nor how every pregnancy turns out. You don’t have to agree with abortion, but you cannot deny women access to abortion simply cuz you don’t like it. At the end of the day, women will take matters into their own hands and do it themselves or seek other unsafe options, which, as stated above, turns into 70,000 women dying every single year around the world due to unsafe abortion. Leaving behind 220,000 kids.

Do you wanna adopt those kids every year? Do you wanna tell those kids why they don’t have a mother?

“Cuz um, I thought abortion was wrong, so I tried to outlaw it and left your mom with no other options. So she um… died doing it herself. Sorry.”

Oh right, btw, 61% of women seeking abortions are ALREADY FUCKING MOTHERS.

Please go diaf or stfu. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

Jindal Signs Anti-Choice Bill, Likens Women Who Receive Abortions To Criminals (Louisiana)

I think the title of this article says it all.

Yesterday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) appeared at the First Baptist Church of West Monroe to sign HB 636, a measure that “requires women to be informed of their specific legal rights and options before they undergo an abortion procedure.” Abortion providers will now have to post signs around their facilities stating that “it is illegal to coerce a woman into getting an abortion, that the child’s father must provide child support, that certain agencies can assist them during and after the pregnancy and that adoptive parents can pay some of the medical costs.” The law also creates a Department of Health and Hospitals website and a mobile platform to deliver information “about public and private pregnancy resources” for avoiding abortions.

Jindal said he couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose the bill, comparing the new notices to Miranda warnings for women who receive abortions — a constitutionally protected procedure — to criminals:

“When officers arrest criminals today, they are read their rights,” he said. “Now if we’re giving criminals their basic rights and they have to be informed of those rights, it seems to me only common sense we would have to do the same thing for women before they make the choice about whether to get an abortion.”

The analogy, however, may be somewhat apt, since Louisiana already has some of the harshest anti-choice laws in the country. According to NARAL, the state still has an unconstitutional and unenforceable measure that prohibits abortion by anyone other than the woman unless necessary to preserve the woman’s life or if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. Louisiana outlaws second-trimester abortion procedure with no exception to protect a woman’s health and in 2006 “enacted a near-total ban on abortion, to become effective if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.”

Under the state’s Right To Know law, abortion providers in Louisiana are already required to distribute pamphlets with information about pregnancy, termination, and alternatives. Women must also sign a statement that they have received the state information and are not being coerced into an abortion before undergoing the procedure.

stfuconservatives:

Abortions Return to Back Alleys Amid Restrictive New State Laws - The Daily Beast

socialismartnature:

Abortion in America — increasingly illegal in all but name for everyone except the rich.

In states across the country, women are being arrested for the crime of ending their own pregnancies—though they have a constitutional right to do so in a doctor’s office.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years. And women have started going to jail for the crime of ending their own pregnancies, or trying to.

This week Jennie L. McCormack, a 32-year-old mother of three from eastern Idaho, was arrested for self-inducing an abortion. According to the Associated Press, McCormack couldn’t afford a legal procedure, and so took pills that her sister had ordered online.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.