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Because facts are important, and knowledge is power.

You know how anti-abortion folks love to stretch the truth lie about abortion statistics. They want everyone to believe that every abortion involves a fully-formed, living, breathing entity being ripped from the womb of some careless, unfeeling pregnant person who doesn't want to have the lord's gift of motherhood bestowed upon them. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of abortions take place early on, and almost half are medically induced (aka taking a pill in the privacy of one's own home). Here's some info directly from the CDC:

Similar to previous years, in 2019, women in their twenties accounted for the majority of abortions (56.9%).

The majority of abortions in 2019 took place early in gestation: 92.7% of abortions were performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation; a smaller number of abortions (6.2%) were performed at 14–20 weeks’ gestation, and even fewer (<1.0%) were performed at ≥21 weeks’ gestation.

Early medical abortion is defined as the administration of medications(s) to induce an abortion at ≤9 completed weeks’ gestation, consistent with the current Food and Drug Administration labeling for mifepristone (implemented in 2016). In 2019, 42.3% of all abortions were early medical abortions.

In 2019, 629,898 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas.

This bit is just me extrapolating a smidge of that data and applying it to a worst case scenario:

That's 629,898 pregnant people, more than half of them in their twenties, who would have been forced to bear a child in 2019 if abortion was illegal in all 50 states.

Some would have died attempting to obtain an illegal abortion, more would have died from pregnancy or birth complications. All of their lives would have been impacted significantly, their plans changed, their next eighteen years dedicated to raising a child. Well over HALF A MILLION women, forced BY A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY to give birth against their will, most of them whose own lives hadn't even quite begun yet.

You're heard it before, and now here it is again:

Literally.

Freddie Oversteegen, Dutch resistance fighter who killed Nazis through seduction, dies at 92

The Dutch resistance was widely believed to be a man’s effort in a man’s war. If women were involved, the thinking went, they were likely doing little more than handing out anti-German pamphlets or newspapers.

Yet Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus, two years her senior, were rare exceptions — a pair of teenage women who took up arms against Nazi occupiers and Dutch “traitors” on the outskirts of Amsterdam. With Hannie Schaft, a onetime law student with fiery red hair, they sabotaged bridges and rail lines with dynamite, shot Nazis while riding their bikes, and donned disguises to smuggle Jewish children across the country and sometimes out of concentration camps.

In perhaps their most daring act, they seduced their targets in taverns or bars, asked if they wanted to “go for a stroll” in the forest — and “liquidated” them, as Ms. Oversteegen put it, with a pull of the trigger.

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Spells and herbs and crystals and deities etc. are great. I work with all of these things. But there is a time and a place for these things. I know not everyone can afford doctors, medications, treatments, etc., but if I see one more post about how to cure cancer with turmeric and crystal therapy I am going to lose my damn mind. 

Did y’all think I was kidding?