K's Mumbo Jumbo

Sep 11 2012 ∞

The Maternity Leave Myth

girlwithalessonplan:

wiinga:

stfuconservatives:

Hey, American uterus owners: want to be completely put off by the idea of ever procreating? Then read this expose in the NY Post about how many women have gotten screwed by our country’s Stone Age maternity leave policies.

In Canada, you get 50 weeks of paid maternity leave. In England, you get 20 weeks paid. In Mexico, 12 paid. As a matter of fact, 178 countries around the world mandate paid leave for creating a totally new human. In America? Twelve weeks, unpaid, and only if you’ve worked for the company for at least a year, and only if your company has more than 50 employees. And they *technically* have to give you your job back, but as this article proves, your employer can probably find a way around that.

So hey, pro-lifers: where are your voices on this? Where are your rallies and signs to support new moms, instead of expecting ones? Where is there a single pro-life legislator fighting to make it easier to have a baby and keep your job? Where are the “family values” politicians when it comes to actually having a child and raising it?

Going through this right now. Why can’t I have a baby AND a job?

Yep.

Sorry. This pro-lifer is too busy caring about the murder of babies to spend time getting you free money for not working. Its funny how the same people who grouse about men making more or getting promoted sooner have no issues with giving a woman a very long, extended paid vacation after birth but you don’t hear them campaigning for the fathers to have those same benefits.

We do..

But I have a very important question for you. Why is it that you view the important bonding time between infant (that you are so busy being all for) and parent as the parents wanting free money? Why is it that you are only campaigning for the fetus and not the rights of parents to give that baby the best ever start.
Shut up you fucking hypocrite

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Sep 10 2012 ∞

nikosnature:

batatonia:

religiousragings:

abaldwin360:

commonsenseslut:

I’m in a really pissy mood today, so I wasn’t going to post anything, but this just grabbed my attention. Once again: I’m in a pissy mood so this will be a pissed off post:

This man genuinly thinks of himself as intelligent, genuinly does. And then he goes and answer a question like this. Yeah, let’s take out a woman’s fallopian tube so that we can avoid the horrible thing that is abortion, because abortion is horrible because it’s called abortion! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

Okay, I’m going to stop there, because that’s about as nice as I can be today, lol.

What is this fuckery???

So, remove the fallopian tubes so it’s not “technically” an abortion?

This is some ignorant shit.

WTF kind of ignorant, double-think fuckery makes someone think that this is acceptable? Let’s perform unnecessary surgery, causing unnecessary damage to a woman, so we don’t have to use the evil fucking A WORD for it? FUCK YOU, NIKO!!!!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a good screenshot of this guy on my dash.

Well, given the high density of the responses I received for this comment, I wasn’t planning on defending it. But there seems to be some confusion about the principle of double effect. Here’s the wikipedia page. Happy learning!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_double_effect

No. Just no. Women deserve health care that is determined by medical professionals. NOT SOME RELIGIOUS IDEA. Not all pregnant people are Christian. Not all pregnant people are willing to die for an already forgone conclusion (that the fetus will not survive).
That the ignorant MAN needs to redefine my health care, that is not acceptable. Period. Stop trying to defend your sexist hate.

(Source: damnsoprochoice)

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Aug 14 2012 ∞

Woman walking into an abortion clinic gives Flying Spaghetti Monster pamphlet to anti-choice protester. Anti-choicer assaults her. Woman calls police, gets abortion, then blogs about the experience.

stfuconservatives:

sunshineuncertaintyprinciple:

I am in awe of this flawless human being.

Read the whole post. This lady is perfect.

(via stfuconservatives)

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Aug 07 2012 ∞

So they don't want to teach accurate sex education in schools and they don't want schools to be the site of birth control distribution, but they want to kick kids out of school if they're pregnant. Tell me again about Americans and their "love" of children.

(Source: sonofbaldwin, via pissykitty)

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North Carolina Republican Calls Planned Parenthood A ‘Murder For Hire’ Organization | Addicting Info

justinspoliticalcorner:

Earlier this year in January, North Carolina GOP state Rep. Larry Pittman openly called for publicly hanging abortion providers, proving just how fanatical Republicans are in their anti-abortion stance. Pittman is now making headlines again for attacking Planned Parenthood and calling for the organization’s utter destruction.

In response to an email from Planned Parenthood pleading with lawmakers not to throw women’s health under the bus through massive budget cuts, Pittman refused to be moved, calling for abolishing Planned Parenthood and referred to it as a “murder for hire” organization.

⁠”[Planned Parenthood] is a murderous organization…getting wealthy on murder for hire. It deals out nothing but deception, death, personal devastation, and moral degradation. Never will I agree to give that bloody, indecent, immoral organization one penny. I will not be satisfied until it is outlawed.”

Planned Parenthood, of course, doesn’t make a whole lot of money on abortions considering the procedure makes up only 3% of the total services performed by the organization.

Clearly, Pittman hates women’s health and his remarks not only prove that Republicans have a deep seated hatred for a woman’s right to choose, they prove that the only goal Republicans have is to completely abolish women’s health services. Planned Parenthood does far more for women than provide abortion services. If Republicans succeed in abolishing the organization, millions of women will be deprived of the care they need to prevent and treat cancer, prenatal care that keeps pregnant women and babies healthy, and contraception services that actually prevent the need for abortions in the first place. Killing Planned Parenthood puts millions of lives at risk every single year and could actually increase abortions. And since abortions would have to be done illegally, that’s even more death that could have been prevented.

But Pittman, like many other Republicans and anti-abortion fanatics, seem to think that women are incapable of choosing to have an abortion, that it must be Planned Parenthood making all the decisions.

H/T: addictinginfo.org

Planned Parenthood saved my health more than once.

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

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Aug 04 2012 ∞

Wait Wait Wait

andigreyscale:

crudivore:

Anti-lifers are always saying that the unborn cannot be compared to the already born…

…yet they say that no one has the right to use another persons body against their will.

I assume that “no one” includes the already born as well as the unborn, right?

Your inconsistency is showing…

The above does not make any sense.

You’re ignorance is showing…

“Anti-Lifers”? Not even close. Stop that tired bullshit.
We support fully and totally the pregnant persons right to chose how best to actually live their life. We know that we don’t know what is best for that ALREADY ALIVE person. But they do know what will be best for them.

Now onto your incredibly horrible non-argument. All your argument does is show that yes, the fetus has no right to use a body without the owner of that bodies permission. If I am pregnant I am not using the fetuses body. I am supporting it.

(via andigreyscale)

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Aug 01 2012 ∞

(Source: sleeping-in-dumbledores-beard, via wswni-deactivated20121106)

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Jul 30 2012 ∞

prolife4ever:

I am so sick of seeing “I hope you get raped” and “You should have been aborted” messages sent to pro-life blogs. I know all you pro-choicers don’t feel that way, but I see it way too often from immature people who refuse to acknowledge that they’re still talking to a person, whether or not it is behind a computer screen. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You can’t accuse us of being hateful when you are saying things like that.

-Amanda

Yes, we can accuse you of being hateful. Because we are not killing doctors, or bombing clinics or harrassing women on the street.

I was harrassed by the nurse in recovery after my LIFE saving abortion. That, dear Amanda, that is hateful. I get messages from the “pro-life” side daily telling me the same things you are complaining about.

When you take away my right to bodily autonomy, I will get angry. I will fight back.

And here is a little tip for you, the messages are usually trolls. Welcome to the internet, now get out of my uterus.

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Jul 20 2012 ∞

wswni:

OI fuckwit! See the word CHOSE? That means she had a CHOICE.

My mother is completely and utterly 100% PRO-CHOICE.

She CHOSE to have me.

Not all pregnant people get that choice. Both my birth mother and my brother’s birth mothers were denied that choice. They were forced to remain pregnant. My brother’s birth mother suffered horrible emotional trauma from that experience.

I have heath conditions that will never leave me, because I did not receive adequate medical care, because I was a desperately unwanted,but forced pregnancy.

Pregnant people who do not have the choice to abort suffer greatly. The fetus does not suffer in an abortion. But a fetus can suffer greatly from prenatal neglect.

There is more life involved in a pregnancy than just the fetus. And that life has more potential.

(Source: checkmateprochoicers, via wswni-deactivated20121106)

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Jul 12 2012 ∞