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@politelycynical
Hi politelycynical! I am a huge fan of your story "Here We Are Again." We recently started up a Seiftis Forever Discord Community and would love to have you join us! Please feel free to reach out if you're interested. Thank you so much and take care. :)
Sure please send an invite
Time shall compress...
how do I find a fic that’s exactly like the one I’ve just read but also different
^^^reasons why writers shouldn’t be worried about using the same tropes/concept/plot that’s been done before
Mind blown
Something I know as a reader but have to remind myself a lot as a writer.
...whatever
What a great use of color!
I love it. It's so beautiful.
it WAS for him
This also happened in Santiago de Chile. The dog thought everyone was there to see him.
statue of our ancestors
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in TERMINATOR: DARK FATE
Sarah Connor saying an uncaptioned but clearly discernible “motherfucker” is the only reaction gif I need for the rest of my life.
I have never seen a Terminator anything, but I am all about this grizzled old badass woman.
puffs and ruffs!! (ง'̀-’́)ง
When you don’t care what the haters say
That isn’t how it works little one.
What if Sirius kept using the ‘I’ve been waiting’ line for the mundane things Remus does like
Sirius: How long ‘till dinner?
Remus: It’s going to be a few more minutes can you wait?
Sirius: I DID MY WAITING-
Remus: Oh Lord
Sirius: TWELVE YEARS OF IT-
Remus: Please stop-
Sirius: *with dramatic conviction* IN AZKABAN
Why are we silent???
When people find out that my dog is afraid of men: Oh, the poor thing must have been traumatized when she was younger! Poor baby, I just want to hold and comfort her and let her know she’s safe.
When people find out that I, an adult human woman, am afraid of men: Um, not *all* men, sweetie. You can’t go your whole life being afraid. Get over it.
When my dog was allowed to get a hysterectomy: She doesn’t need to have puppies to have a happy, healthy like with her adoptive family.
When I, an adult human woman, want to get a hysterectomy: But having children will make you happy! You might change your mind!
A rant about what's going on in Alabama and Georgia
The GA anti abortion bill calls out methods like medicine or devices used to prevent implantation. So birth control pills and IUDs? Gone. It's like the south took a 50 year leap backwards in protecting women's rights. They are narrowing the ways in which we can prevent pregnancy, making us feel like murderers for just the act of trying to be sexually responsible, and taking away our voice to decide after the fact.
You don't want a baby? You're advised to keep your knees together. (As if sexual freedom could never be done responsibly. If it's not for procreation, what are you even doing it for?)
Meanwhile, how many rapists just get away with it? We see that all the time. Like that fucker that raped a girl behind a dumpster and then the court said punishing him would damage his future.
And under these new bills (Alabama's, I think), it will be illegal to get an abortion IF YOU WERE RAPED. Of course, I guess if they don't convict the rapist, they would argue from the verdict that you were willing. (See "keeping your legs together".)
I'm disgusted with this world today.
During a very heated discussion with my mother, she asked if I was pro-abortion. I told her that no one (sane) is pro-abortion. Women just want to be treated like more than cattle. The control that we had over our bodies is being ripped from our hands.
I don't have children, and I've debated for a very long time about whether I want them. After the things I've read the past few days, I feel like I need to have a tubal ligation before the bill goes into effect. I've spent years deciding but how long will I even have the choice?
I read this morning that miscarriages will also be investigated in Georgia. Just the act of creating life puts you at risk. What if you lose the baby? They say that the mother would be questioned to determine if she willingly terminated the pregnancy, possibly facing 20 years in prison if convicted. What if it was a mistake? Would that be manslaughter? What if you didn't know you were pregnant? What then?
It feels like we are worse than cattle right now though. At least cattle can be seen as a financial investment. The owners want to keep them healthy and safe so they can get a return on the purchase. If these laws go into effect, then women will be forced into pregnancies that are unhealthy for their bodies. There will be deaths.
I dont feel protected at all.
we’re in hell and it’s only going to get worse.
The bill also requires ectopic pregnancies to be re-implanted in the uterus—a medical procedure that doesn’t exist.
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Jesus Christ
So:
This bill effectively bans all forms of birth control except condoms, other barrier methods, and the rhythm method/pull out method. No more pills, IUDs, emergency contraceptives, nothing. No tubal ligations, so women won’t even be able to sterilize themselves anymore in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
It also forces women to undergo an invasive, unnecessary procedure in order to symbolically make pro-lifers….feel better? I guess. Removing an ectopic pregnancy and then placing it in the uterus so she can then expel it is completely illogical. Dislodgment of this NONVIABLE pregnancy destroys the placental connections that have formed, effectively removing the blood supply from the embryo entirely. So even if you wanted to believe it was remotely possible for a removed ectopic pregnancy to be reimplanted into the uterus (which it isn’t), you’re effectively going to be implanting an embryo that is guaranteed to have an anoxic brain injury, at the very least, and this will most likely be occurring at the most critical time in neuro development (the first trimester) for that embryo so what exactly are we expecting to be the outcome should this pro-life fantasy even be possible? Severely brain damaged, congenitally malformed, most likely nonviable babies that the mom then has to watch die after giving birth to. Nice.
You’d literally be cutting someone open to remove dying tissue and then invasively insert that dead tissue somewhere else increasing the chance of infection and other complications.
You can treat ectopic pregnancies that have not ruptured MEDICALLY, with MEDICINE. Avoiding invasive surgery is the standard of care across this entire country. Requiring that doctors perform an invasive and unnecessary procedure instead of giving one to two pills to perform another invasive procedure that has no realistic purpose other than to make men feel better is completely unethical and puts doctors in an impossible position? Sacrifice patient safety and care or lose the license you spent at least 11 years working for, go to jail, and have no way to pay back your 6 figure loan debt?
And, finally, how would doctors reimplant this fetus (assuming it’s possible, which it isn’t)? Would they cut open the uterus and put it in there so she can miscarry “naturally”? Doing so would put her at an increased risk of placenta accreta/percreta, uterine rupture with future pregnancies, and pretty much require any future deliveries to take place via c-section which is major abdominal surgery and carries all of the risks that a surgery like that entails. Cutting the uterus open in the first trimester would require a “classical” c-section cut which puts a woman at all of the risks I stated above.
Would they insert it through the cervix? Doing so would require dilation of the cervix with laminaria and put her at risk of ectopic pregnancy on the cervix in the future.
Look. Even if I supported this law, these are legitimate questions and they should be addressed before legislation like this even makes it to the floor. Physicians and other providers MUST be consulted when crafting legislation that affects medical care. This law is telling doctors it is now illegal for them to offer the gold standard for care for treating ectopic pregnancies or providing the most reliable options for birth control available and is REQUIRING them to endanger patients so a bunch of old white guys who hate women and don’t understand biology can feel more powerful by reducing women back to brood mares.
Physicians should not and cannot be used to enforce state-sanctioned or federal laws like this. These laws are not medically ethical and they are not morally ethical and they violate human rights on multiple fronts.
This whole thing is horrifying. I have friend who’ve miscarried; I’ve had friends who’ve had ectopic pregnancies. It was horrible (and sometimes dangerous) enough for them without bringing this bullshit into it. And I’ve been the one sitting in the doctor’s office and hearing the words “not capable with life”–in regard to a condition my much-wanted unborn first child might have.
That was one of the hardest days of my life. I can’t imagine having to go through the rest of that “pregnancy” if that turned out to be the case. Fortunately, we went through some more testing and it wasn’t that condition. (I’m typing and watching my now 14-year-old son sitting nearby, reading, right now.)
But it could have been. And let me tell you, it’s still so easy to think back on the horror and heartbreak of that time, it’s hard to think of it being worse.
But it could have been.
This is so horrible.
Every time I read more about it, I want to weep. I live in Alabama right now, but this shit makes me want to leave. The rest of the country is looking at us (and at my home state of Georgia). They all think we don't value women. They are making jokes as they always do about us, which bothers me but what the fuck do we expect?
I don't want to have a baby, and I have taken steps to where an accidental pregnancy is pretty much impossible. But this still makes me feel like I'm not in control of my life. It makes me feel like I need to sterilize myself before the bill goes into effect.
Women getting investigated after miscarriages is wrong. Is that what we're doing now? Are they going to hire more police officers so they can hang out at the hospital to question mothers on the worst day of their lives? The fuck.
