#istandwithpp

[ancient-bruises-ancient-moon]

INFO FROM THIS EVENING’S PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION COMMITTEE RE: THE LOSS OF RBG/FOLLOW UP ACTION:

Find out how to get involved in stuff!

-text “women’s march” to 44310 

-text “frontline” to 30403 (or go to thefrontline.org)

-text “RISE” to 22422 to join the Planned Parenthood Action Committee 

-supercharge2020.com to RSVP for Women All In Super Majority’s Day of Action

With only 44 days until the election the most important thing we can do right now is work to increase voter turn out!! As senator Mazie Hirone said tonight- “take that anger to vote.”

There's so many ways to get involved, across movements so find something if nothing above suits you! And if you can’t or need help doing so, message me!! We can do this!

[prochoice-activist]

Abortion tag drinking game

Take four shots if you see:

- A post that denies sometimes abortions are needed to save someone’s life.

- “Abortion doesn’t make you unpregnant, it makes you the mother of a dead baby.” 

- A picture of all male anti-abortion protesters.

- Anything from Abolish Human Abortion/AHA.

Story of someone who tried to coerce or force someone into an abortion used to try and convince people that that’s what pro-choice is about.

- Someone using abortion rates in POC to make an anti-abortion point. 

- A post by Cultureshift, Oh-Snap-Pro-Lifers, That-Mouthy-Christian, ProwomanProlife, Goandannounce, or OneThirdGone. 

Take three shots if you see:

- Anything that specifically says rape victims shouldn’t be allowed abortions.

- Anything that says the only instance when abortion should be allowed is to preserve someone’s life.

- Anything that says mental illness/suicide is not a reason for abortion.

- Someone calling a person who is getting, considering, or has had an abortion selfish.

- An anecdote about how because X person brought a pregnancy to term in a diffcult situation, everyone can. 

- A link to LifeSiteNews

- A picture of an “aborted” fetus that is 16 weeks along or further.

- THAT FUCKING PICTURE OF THE “TWELVE WEEK OLD” CANDY FETUS.

- A picture of abortion protesters where at least 3/4 are male.

- Someone saying that calling a fetus a fetus is an attempt at dehumanization.

- A post by anyone with an anti-abortion reference in their URL. 

- Something about PP’s founder having shitty views that were relevant 100 years ago.  

Take two shots if you see:

A cisgender man who is anti-abortion.

- A cisgender man who is upset that some people don’t value his opinion on abortion.

- Someone complaining about how killing a pregnant person gets you an extra murder charge. 

- Something about the “father” not being able to stop an abortion.  

- A Reagan qoute.

- A person calling someone a slut, whore, or other misogynist slur.

- Someone calling someone who has become pregnant stupid or an idiot. 

- A picture of an “aborted” fetus that is 16 weeks along or further.

- Anything about religion.

- Comparing abortion to the Holocaust, 9/11, slavery, or any other tragedy.

- Someone saying a fetus is not a fetus. 

- Photo of an obviously fake “aborted” fetus. 

- A link to any other anti-abortion website.

- “Fourth trimester abortion/After birth abortion.”

- “Abortion clinics are set in neighborhoods that are predominantly comprised of POC because genocide/eugenics!!”

 - Anything questioning the safety of abortion. 

Take one shot if you see

- Someone calling a person who is getting, considering, or has had an abortion a murderer.

- “Close your legs!”

- “Consent to sex is consent to pregnancy” 

- “Consequences”

- “Take responsibility!”

- A wall of text anti-abortion rant with poor grammar and spelling.

- Someone saying it’s hypocritical to be for abortion and against the death penalty.~~~ Take an additional drink if they’re against abortion, but for the death penalty. 

- Fetus in scare qoutes. 

- A meme.

- Anything tagged anti-feminism.

- “Human rights are more important than women’s rights.”

- “Bodily autonomy is bullshit!”

- “The body inside your body is not your body!” Or a picture that tries to convey that. 

- Anything criticizing pro-choice vegans. 

- A political cartoon.

- A link to any site with strong bias. 

- Anything about abortion regret or mental health.  

[ppaction]

What is Trump's "Gag Rule?”

The administration’s gag rule would have devastating effects for women and those seeking sexual and reproductive health care services.We can all agree that patients should have access to the best medical care and information possible. This rule would do the opposite and put women’s health at risk.What does the gag rule do?Donald Trump has said from day one he wants to control women. With a new gag rule, he and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar are now trying to make it official government policy.  

The Trump-Pence administration’s new rule would block patients from care at Planned Parenthood. It would also prohibit doctors, nurses, hospitals, and community health centers across the country from being able to refer their patients for safe, legal abortion.

In short, a gag rule would keep women from having full information about all of their reproductive options, and from getting the best health care possible.

Act now: Stop the gag rule

Everyone, regardless of their race, of their income, or where they live, deserves the best medical care and information available. Under this rule, they won’t get it.

What does the gag rule do?

We can all agree that patients should have access to the best medical care and information possible. This rule would do the opposite and put women’s health at risk.

The Trump-Pence administration's gag rule would do three things:

Impose new rules designed to make it impossible for patients to get birth control or preventive care from reproductive health care providers like Planned Parenthood.

Prevent health care providers across the country from referring their patients for safe, legal abortion.

Remove the guarantee that patients get full and accurate information about their health care from their doctor.

The gag rule is an attack on Title X, the nation’s program for affordable birth control and reproductive care that four million people rely on. Title X ensures people have access to contraception and gives them more control over their lives, health, careers, and economic security — and a gag rule takes that care away.

Why you should care, and what it means for patients

The administration’s gag rule would have devastating effects for women and those seeking sexual and reproductive health care services.

First, the gag rule would block patients from health care. Planned Parenthood health centers serve 41 percent of patients who get care through Title X-funded health services — yet this rule is designed to bar those patients from coming to Planned Parenthood health centers.

Preventing those patients from coming to Planned Parenthood would mean many are left with nowhere else to go, leaving them without access to birth control, cancer screenings, STD testing and treatment, or even general women’s health exams. But it doesn’t stop there. The gag rule would apply to 4,000 Title X-funded health care providers across the country, including community health centers, hospital-based clinics, and health departments.

Other health care providers have been clear — they couldn’t fill the gap if Planned Parenthood were no longer allowed to serve these patients. Already, in many counties, Planned Parenthood health centers are the only places that provide uninsured people or people with low incomes the reproductive care they need.

This would fall the hardest on people of color. Because of systemic inequities, many patients who rely on Title X for their health care needs are people of color, who already face significant barriers to accessing health care. Black and African Americans make up 21 percent of Title Xpatients, and Hispanic and Latino patients make up 32 percent. After being blocked from these health centers, including Planned Parenthood, many patients would have nowhere else to go for care.

The gag rule would limit women’s reproductive health choices. This is an attempt to take away women’s basic rights. Period. Under the gag rule, if a woman is pregnant and wants or needs an abortion, her provider would be prohibited from telling her where she can go to get one. Or if a woman’s pregnancy would severely affect her health — for example, she discovers that she’s pregnant after being diagnosed with cancer — she might not receive information that abortion is even an option.

It would have dangerous and widespread health effects.  We’re familiar with the consequences of a domestic gag rule because we’ve seen similar dangerous measures in effect. One of the Trump-Pence administration's very first acts in office was to reinstate and expand a "global gag rule," which bans overseas groups from receiving U.S. global health funding if they even so much as mention abortion-related services.

Evidence has shown that the global gag rule leads to increases in unsafe abortion, as well as unintended pregnancies, women dying from pregnancy-related complications, and infant and child deaths. It also leads to health center closures, which leave people with less access to care. We should be ending the global gag rule — not importing a version of it to the U.S.

How can I take action?

We can’t afford to let the Trump-Pence administration continue down this path of chipping away at our reproductive health care access. Now is the time to unite, show our power, and make sure everyone gets the health care they want or need, without politicians controlling when, how, or why.

SEND A MESSAGE: STOP THE GAG RULE

[comtesse-d-edessa]

I just heard some guy being like “ladies imagine how you would feel if you had no say in a child being born or not just because you had had sex with someone and now you were expected to be a father” (the idea being, if you ask a girl to get an abortion and she says no, you are relieved of any obligation to that kid besides perhaps monetary because you didn’t want it and she chose to have it.) besides the fact that legal abortion allows situations like this to happen, absolving fathers of all responsibility because ‘well you could have had an abortion but you didn’t so obviously you want to be a single mother’—

boo hoo fucking hoo. yes, dude, you had sex, the thing that makes babies, you knew protection is not 100%, and you let your hornyness overcome the fact that if there is a chance an activity can lead to pregnancy, and you don’t want to get a girl pregnant, don’t have sex. You had a say if a child would be born or not when you decided to have sex knowing (assuming you have taken sex Ed and are above the age of 10) that you could get someone pregnant. Your life is so sad and this is in no way a consequence of your own actions, poor baby.

The way abortion is used to treat women like objects to be used and disposed of makes me very sad!!

[that-catholic-shinobi]

It’s amazing that in nursing development clssses we don’t start with the newborn, we start with conception. We start at the beginning of life.

The lips are formed at 4-7 weeks. Heartbeat at 6-8 weeks.

The first trimester has some of the fastest and complex growth for the fetus.

[ravenhead1997]

[plannedparenthoodaccess]

Meet Planned Parenthood’s New President

The president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund is Dr. Leana Wen, who will be leading Planned Parenthood through its next exciting, challenging chapter — the first physician in nearly 50 years to lead our organization.

Dr. Wen's resume speaks for itself — take a look.

Planned Parenthood was founded in defiance of unjust laws that prohibited women from basic information about their reproductive health. And we were forged with courage and commitment. We were built for this moment in history, when our rights are under attack like we haven't seen in generations.

As an immigrant who relied on public health programs, Dr. Wen knows personally the vulnerability of not having access to care. As a practicing emergency room doctor, she sees the consequences of people not having access to basic health care every day. For more than 100 years, Planned Parenthood has never stopped fighting to expand access to vital reproductive health care so that every one of us can live full, independent lives — regardless of race, gender, income, zip code, or immigration status.

[notmypresidenttrump]

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a doctor will lead Planned Parenthood. Meet our new president, Dr. Leana Wen. #IStandWithPP | #Repost @plannedparenthood ・・・ https://www.instagram.com/p/BnopvVdF5nA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nf7lx9j7hlbb