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The man was former senator Rick Santorum aka this guy:

And here’s the link:

Anti-abortion lawmaker: Rape and incest are the “will of God”

A male Republican lawmaker has suggested that rape and incest are not simply crimes that often devastate their victims, but sometimes also the “will of God,” according to the Huffington Post. 

Sometimes, he said, God will “bring beauty from ashes” — a baby.

While defending anti-abortion legislation that would bar women from terminating pregnancies on the basis of a Down syndrome diagnosis or “genetic abnormality,” Oklahoma Rep. George Faught was asked about the bill’s omission of typical exceptions: rape and incest. 

According to Raw Story, when Rep. Cory Williams asked Faught if he saw rape as “the will of God,” Faught replied:

“Well, you know, if you read the Bible, there’s actually a couple circumstances where that happened. The Lord uses all circumstances. I mean, you can go down that path, but it’s a reality unfortunately.”

West Sumatra, Indonesia

Two snails perch on the head of a frog in west Sumatra.

What a spectacular jump. 

Trump to visit grave of Andrew Jackson, one of the most racist presidents in US history

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit Andrew Jackson’s tomb in Nashville, Tennessee, to pay tribute to the seventh U.S. president on his 250th birthday.

“They say my election was most similar to his,” Trump told a crowd of auto workers gathered in Michigan shortly before his planned trip to the Hermitage, Jackson’s Tennessee home, to lay a wreath on the former president’s grave.

Here’s a doggo blowing bubbles. It’s downright legendary. 13/10 would watch on repeat forever (vid by Kent Duryee)

While recent campaigns aim to bring awareness of child sex trafficking, recent research has suggested that the public’s understanding of sex trafficking is misinformed. A research report, Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade: A National Study by John Jay College and the Center for Court Innovation, contested the myth that youth engaging in the sex trade(s) were all victims of sex trafficking. This two-year long research project showed only 10% of approximately 300 interviewed minors in the NYC sex trade used “market facilitators” (e.g., pimps), and 70% stated they had sought services specifically for youths at least once and could not adhere to the regimented guidelines of the service agencies (one-half of the 1,000 minors interviewed nationally did not access services). A whopping 95% of NYC youth stated they exchanged sex for money purely for financial support.

If we apply these empirical findings through a social justice lens, it clearly shows that youth are using prostitution as survival mechanisms due to the fact there are minimal resources made available to them other than state/city sanctioned programs that leave little recourse for them to determine their future outcomes. When we spend millions of dollars annually on awareness campaigns looking for pimps that aren’t there, additional millions annually on youth programs for shelter and services not utilized, and have contributed millions in taxpayer revenue to fund program-specific street outreach/trafficking, we must ask ourselves why the estimated 3,946 NYC homeless youth engaging in prostitution did not seek these services out.

The answer is simple: if minors are caught prostituting, most are arrested, pipelined back into a system that has more than likely failed them repeatedly, or sent back to environments that are dangerous and abusive. A similar study in Atlanta found no shelters for youth at all despite the heavily funded claim that the city was an immense hub for child sex trafficking.

gofundme takes up to 7.9% of everything people donate you + $0.30 per donation

that means that if 10 people help you raise $1000, you’re losing $82 bucks

gofundme doesn’t allow fundraisers for abortions but let darren wilson open a fundraiser after he murdered mike brown

instead, try using http://www.youcaring.com/ which is not only free but also pro-choice and not fucking racist to my knowledge

they can stay free because they ask everyone who donates to a cause whether they’d like to donate $1 to the website to keep it running

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