Catholic Girls Deserve Better

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’" 

“Someday,” she said, “I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And they knew they would be remembered, loved and taken care of, and that someone would say a kind word over them when they died.“ 

–http://m.arktimes.com/arkansas/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel/Content?oid=3602959

If anyone is interested in reading her story or donating towards the memorial, here is the link

THE SOLUTION TO CAPITALISM IS NOT COMMUNISM

THE SOLUTION TO CAPITALISM IS NOT COMMUNISM

THE SOLUTION TO CAPITALISM IS NOT COMMUNISM

THE SOLUTION TO CAPITALISM IS NOT COMMUNISM

You can be against capitalism without romanticizing another economic idea which failed repeatedly and caused the death of millions of people, especially people of color.

This is coming from someone whose family is still suffering in North Korea. Do NOT tell me we should be living in a Communist society. You are justifying and romanticizing an ideology that directly affects millions of people of color today.

America has some of the weakest anti-pregnancy-discrimination rules in the world (the federal statute says that companies only have to give pregnant people lighter duties if they make similar accommodations for those “similar in their ability or inability to work); and this has produced an epidemic of workplace miscarriages among women who have frequently begged their supervisors for lighter duties, even presenting doctor’s written notes with their pleas.

Warehousing and logistics companies are among the worst offenders: Verizon/Nike/Disney contractor New Breed Logistics (a division of the $12 billion XPO Logistics) – one worker quit New Breed/XPO after her supervisor told her she should have an abortion if she didn’t feel she could perform her usual duties during her pregnancy.

Other egregious offenders include grocery stores like Albertons (which demoted a woman who was forced to work until she miscarried). The New York Times reports on documented incidents of supervisors requiring pregnant women to work until they miscarried in “a hospital, a post office, an airport, a grocery store, a prison, a fire department, a restaurant, a pharmaceutical company and several hotels.”

Legal movement to protect pregnant women from workplace conditions that induce miscarriages has been stalled by “anti-regulation” Republicans like Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.

The intransigence to protect the pregnancies of willing mothers is especially terrible given the brutal stance of the right on abortion: on the one hand, women who want babies are not allowed to keep them, while women who became pregnant by accident, or through rape, or whose health is threatened by their pregnancies are required to give birth to babies they don’t want or can’t safely deliver.

“I’m laying there, scared enough, not wanting this done, telling her I didn’t want it done. All of a sudden I smell something burning. If I could’ve moved my legs I probably would’ve kicked her.”- Brenda Pelletier on being sterilized against her will

Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state.

And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier’s experience appears not to be an isolated case.

At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years.

you know how you’re outraged about how hard it is to get a Doctor to agree to sterilize you even to save your life? 

listen. no one spends eight months being pregnant and then wakes up one day like “nah nvm let’s kill it”

people getting late term abortions WANTED the baby! they’ve already picked out cute baby outfits! they’ve painted the nursery a cute pastel color! they’ve made lists of names!

if they’re getting an abortion at eight months it’s because they HAVE TO. because the baby is dying or killing them.

Trialogo series By Gonzalo Orquin will finally be shown in New York after the Vatican threatened to sue the artist at the showing in Rome

The most common complaint I hear from men is that “we don’t have a choice if a woman decides to get an abortion!” Being the ‘rabid feminist’ that I am, I have a shit ton of problems with this statement.

You had the choice to have sex in the first place*

You had the choice to use protection*

Pregnancy is a nine-month long experience of discomfort

You are not carrying the baby

Labor is excruciatingly painful

Women are at the risk of dying during labor.

The postpartum experience is uncomfortable

Statistically, more men abandon their children than women

The social stigmas on mothers are crushing, far more so than those on fathers.

In the case of rape (1 in 6 American women are the victim of a rape or attempted rape) the compulsion to carry an unwanted baby to term prevents recovery

Roe v. Wade — the landmark Supreme Court case establishing access to abortion as a constitutional right — has been settled law for over 40 years, yet remains under constant attack. With President Donald Trump in office, we face potentially the greatest threat to reproductive rights in more than a generation. The Center for Reproductive Rights updated our 2007 report, What If Roe Fell?, in order to answer the question on everyone’s mind on the 45th anniversary of Roe: what will happen if Roe were toppled in your state, the day after?