The Morality Bug

This space is dedicated to posts and things that agree with my morality. If you don't agree with what I post: Thanks for stopping by and have a good day

[gahdamnpunk]

“Watchfully waiting” for women to die?

[lichtensteining]

I learned when I was 15 that when a fertilized egg implants, it’s THERE (save circumstances that lead to loss of pregnancy). Normally it implants in the uterus, where it should implant. Then, barring any of the circumstances referenced earlier, it grows into a viable fetus.

In ectopic pregnancies, the fertilized egg implants in Not The Uterus (usually Fallopian tubes). This means it’s not going to move. This means it’s never going to be viable because it’s fixed in the Wrong Goddamn Place.

This means it CANT ever become a baby, and it WILL be life-threatening for the person carrying the never-able-to-be-born embryo. This isn’t about “saving the baby’s life” because it can and never will be a baby. It’s 100% about controlling women’s (and other ppl with vaginas) bodies.

And I know this all from 9th grade biology. That’s how pathetically uninformed pro-lifers are.

[nyanbinaryrose]

Fun fact: The chance of ectopic pregnancy increases with many forms of sterilization, particularly tubal ligation. So even if you go through the trouble of finding a doctor who will perform sterilization of you, fighting your insurance to cover the procedure, and probably paying for the everything out of pocket just so you can’t have kids, the pro-lifers will still try to fuck up your life cause you have a vagina C: Source: my fucking life

[moralitybug]

So many eptopic pregnancies resolve themselves... This is why doctors would 'wait and watch' rather then treat through 'abortive' medicines or surgical removal.

And in cases that surgery or medicines are used, the unborn is already dead (not developing), rather the embryotic cells are simply cloneing themselves (unlike a living embryo that does develop) based off the little energy they have originally and can pulled from the tub walls.

So eptopic removals are not true abortions in the same way that miscarriages (and removing miscarriages) are not abortions.

And waiting and watching isn't controlling a woman's body until she's too far gone. Rather it's an observing period to see if intervention is even needed, so as to not put unnecessary stress on the woman.

[moralitybug]

Pray the rosary daily

[tejuina]

i was watching testimonies by survivors of sex trafficking, and a lot of them talk about how their captors referred to them as “sex workers” and kept telling them they had to “work” and generate profit if they wanted to eat, if they didn’t want their relatives killed, if they didn’t want to be hit. if a “client” paid for a “service,” they had to give it to him.

work work work work work never rape never prostitution always work, to little girls who had heard of prostitution but never “sex work,” who didn’t know what was happening was illegal, who were told that what was happening was normal, that it would stop hurting eventually because “it’s just work, look at all these other women doing it.”

there was a testimony by a pimp, who admitted to having kidnapped girls off the streets. he said he liked the power of bossing people around. he said he liked having so many “employees.”

normalizing prostitution and using “destigmatizing” language is not a new tactic to “empower” (prostituted) women. it’s something perpetrators of sex trafficking have been doing for years to hide the realities of the sex industry from young girls and keep them from seeing themselves as victims of a crime.

don’t call yourself a feminist if you’re unwilling to see the parallels between sex trafficking and “consensual sex work.”

[briaehs]

[women-choose-life]

So you’re saying that poor kid should have been aborted? How about saving it from that dump instead? Donate money. Adopt. We don’t need abortion. We need compassion.

[mintedwitcher]

Sometimes abortion is the compassionate thing to do. You need to wake the fuck up.

[women-choose-life]

You need to grow up and realize that killing is never right even when the alternatives are difficult.

[moralitybug]

"I see you are struggling with life there... Bet you'd rather be dead now, wouldn't you... I agree."

* proceed to post it on the cell phone & drive off to the nearest restraint where you can sit & jab at pro-lifers online who are more willing to set up & give to chairties then most others.

[thisbibliomaniac]

An actual victim.

[sweetlikeacherry]

In Alabama as of today, if a man rapes and impregnates a minor child and she gets an abortion, she will go to jail for longer than him. If this doesn’t make you angry, it should.

[moralitybug]

False, there are no penalties for women who have had abortions. I also don't believe theres a standard length for the act of rape. You may be thinking the sentence length of the anortionIST vs. the shorter (then acceptable) lenghts admistered to select rapists.

[forourtimetoo-deactivated202407]

A Good Catholic Response to the Anti-Abortion Laws

So I was raised Catholic and got pretty involved in the Catholic ministry at my undergrad before realizing that like, I don’t actually want to be part of a church where abusing kids is more acceptable than taking birth control or where being a pedophile is more acceptable than being queer. Anyway, I still have a decent number of friends and relatives who are staunch Catholics, and it’s been really interesting to see their responses to this recent spate of anti-abortion bills. Most of their reactions have frustrated me because even when they disapprove of these laws, they won’t actually DO anything. So here’s the one response I’ve really loved:

One of my friends from college is in med school. She’s recently had a baby, she doesn’t approve of abortion, but as a doctor, she’s really come around to the idea of birth control, and she knows that sometimes, abortions are necessary. One of her dear friends had an ectopic pregnancy last year, so she had to have an abortion because that’s the ONLY medically safe way to deal with an ectopic pregnancy. Naturally, this friend of mine was upset about these abortion laws. That said, she’s still not likely to donate to Planned Parenthood or any other organization that outright supports abortions. So, she decided to start donating money to organizations that help women and girls before they’re at the point of needing abortions. She’s donating to organizations that support girls and help them stay in school; organizations that teach sex ed; organizations that provide food for families; organizations associated with foster care. She’s asking what the root causes for abortions are (lack of education, lack of resources, lack of birth control, a failing adoption system in the US), and she’s doing what she can in her small way to work there, rather than to deny women aid when they are in extreme circumstances where abortion is the only answer.

To any Catholics who still follow me from my Catholic phases, don’t be the kind of self-righteous Pharisee who claims to be helping women while criminalizing their right to choose. If you’re really anti-abortion, try to stop the causes of abortion. Put your money/time/energy where your mouth is and actually try to help women, instead of taking away our rights. Abortion is almost always a last resort - help make it so that fewer women reach that place of last resort. And when they do, don’t judge them. You don’t know what’s led them there.

[chadchadington-deactivated20240]

“Don’t judge people for killing their children Catholic Jesus said something about not judging in the Bible somewhere”

[comtesse-d-edessa]

lol there is no right to abortion and pro life people already donate to these groups this is so condescending

where’s that meme of that dude like “I’m not a Christian but it wouldn’t be Christlike to disagree with me”

[moralitybug]

She has points that people should be putting their $$ where there mouth is...

What she's missing is that pro-lifers have been doing this consistently since Roe vs. Wade was instituted, and Catholics have been doing these types of charities even longer then that (prominent in the history of orphanages, helping the sick & homeless, & fighting infancide, in & outside the womb)...

Also absolutely missing the fact that religion is not the only (or necessary to believe in) cause to oppose abortion or BC. Not by a long shot.

[thescienceofapologetics]

I cannot even begin to imagine how hurtful it must be for children of rape, kids in foster care, and people with disabilities to hear over and over and OVER again that they’re the exception. That THEY are the people who everyone uses to argue why abortion is okay. They are always the people who are told it’s okay if they don’t live because they’re a burden. GOD ABOVE HELP US, YOU MATTER. If no one else tells you, I’m telling you now you’re WORTH fighting for, you’re WORTH IT. You deserve to be alive. You’re just as precious and valuable and beautiful as anyone else and I pray with all my heart that you never forget that.

[moralitybug]

Ever!

[prolifeproliberty]

You literally said that there being no exemptions for rape is a good thing. That’s calling rape a good thing.

….no? That makes no sense?

I’m saying that abortion in the case of rape is still abortion, and so we should still make it illegal.

[moralitybug]

Man, with all these new events, Im not even surprised anymore at how far people are willing reaching to try and make their arguments. Even to the point of breaking an arm to reach their goal

[victorianvictim-deactivated2021]

You’d think having a mutual, respectful and enduring relationship with a spouse who cares for you would be more empowering than having casual, meaningless sex with a stranger who only wants you for your body.

[weavemama]

can u imagine being one of the best humanitarians out there just to have headlines talk about your pregnancy instead of the work you put in with trying to help genocide/rape victims…..

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

Can I just say that, as a woman who is a mother and plans to go back to school and do Big Things™…I kinda appreciate these things? Pregnant women get things done. Pregnant women are members of society that can do their jobs or give something to their community. Too often we are surrounded by myths that downplay the things we can do as mothering people, or that our pregnancies don’t/shouldn’t matter. Obviously I will have to look up the original article, to see whether they only mentioned her pregnancy, but being that its TIME I highly doubt that they disregarded her work at the UN.

“Celebrity Is Having A Baby and went to a World Organization While Doing So!” is more likely to garner foot traffic than “Lady talks about sad stuff as place thing”. Maybe they could and should have worded it better, but I’ve seen this post a million times and it still doesn’t give any offense to me, personally. I just don’t see it.

A passionate woman attended a world organization (implying that she was doing something important), all while pregnant and not ashamed about it. I dig it! I hope other people do, too! Because pregnancy is too often damned as something that holds women back rather than something that is a part of us and what we do!

[prolifeproliberty]

How about “Amal Clooney speaks up for human rights while growing a human inside her”?

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

that actually sounds way cooler than the actual title

[myrosecolouredgirl]

“FANART IS NOT REAL ART!!!”

Do we need to talk about the relationship between the Renaissance and the Bible

[soumeki]

I never laughed so hard.

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

*and also classical mythology

[women-choose-life]

[joannadisciple-deactivated20210]

“But Planned Parenthood is for all pregnant women!!!”

[o-immaculata-deactivated2019022]

When I was pregnant with my first, before I knew the truth about abortions and PP, my husband and I didn’t have much money and didn’t have a regular physician or anything like that. I simply wanted to confirm my pregnancy with a blood draw and possibly set up a dating ultrasound before picking a clinic for the remainder so that I could tell my husband with certainty without waiting weeks. Because Planned Parenthood is usually portrayed as a pregnancy resource center, I made an appointment.

After checking in, I was surprised to find the person assisting me wasn’t a nurse, and I wouldn’t be consulting a doctor that day. I had already requested to confirm the pregnancy, and was extremely surprised to be handed a standard pee-stick test, given that in clinics, pregnancies are confirmed with a blood test. They reassured me that they didn’t do blood draws, but could provide me with resources after the pee test.

So I peed on a stick just like the eight I had already done at home. And surprise, surprise, this non nurse found exactly what I had. She informed me that I was pregnant, and asked me what my plans were. After saying I would keep the baby, she asked, “Well, what are you doing here then?” I asked if I could then be set up with a doctor for a blood draw or dating ultrasound since the pee test came back positive, and she said, “We don’t really do that here.”

Thankfully, we ended up at a life-affirming clinic after doing our own research.

Maybe call me naive for not knowing that beforehand. But I’m sure I am not the only person that showed up at a Planned Parenthood expecting basic prenatal care other than, “Yup, you’re pregnant!”

[seasonsofwinterberry]

[that-catholic-shinobi]

So if Catholics don’t eat meat on Fridays during Lent, are they allowed to eat meat on the other days of the week? What about Fridays during the rest of the year?

Except for Ash Wendsday, the only days we abstain from meat are friday’s during lent. On other days it’s perfectly acceptable to eat meat.

Some “traditional” Catholics abstain from meat on every friday but it isn’t required.

[fucked-up-lemon-deactivated2023]

??? Abstain from meat during Lent? I work at a fast food place and on Lent we get toooooooons of orders for fish (instead of chicken) during that time. Are there just a ton of people cheating Lent in my area or does fish not count as the same kind of meat as red meat, poultry, etc?

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Fish doesn’t count as meat under Catholic dietary rules.

[lesbiantiana]

some of you never got your lips stuck in a gate ten days after you turned 8 and your friends all laughed and you just stood there until the fire department came and broke the lock with a crowbar and you had to spend the next six weeks in lip rehab with this kid named oscar who got stung by a bee right on the lip and you couldn’t even talk to each other until the fifth week because both your lips were so swollen and when he did start speaking he just spoke polish and you only knew like three words in polish except now you know four because oscar taught you the word for lip, “usta”

and it shows

[eternal-echoes]