abortion classic or dud?

feminist. Fuck mah typos lately.

well yeah I have absolutely no defense for therape bit

the fetus rosary, that is kind of badass

the _ rape

It may be different in different countries. In US goth clubs / dance it wouldn't be unheard for someone to appropriate controversial religious jewelry. As long as it's "pretty".

Oh dont get me wrong, its the same here! I guess it was just the assumption all goths would go one further and think aborted fetuses (or, as I saw, rape jokes) are "edgy" and hilare.

Anyway sorry for the derail :)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/santorum-suggests-abortion-causes-breast-cancer/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fox_fns_santorum_cancer_120205c-615x345.jpg

sobering to get these reminders of how reckless & mercenary these guys are, in between bouts of being amused seeing them butt around on-stage

x-post - Ugh. That's such a tired false claim that has been repeatedly proven wrong. :[

I think it's one of those cases where they are wishing and hoping that if they repeat it enough it will become true.

I don't even get the hypothesis there. If abortion makes breast cancer chances go up, wouldn't miscarriage or having a baby? It's just so out of left field

You've never heard that one before?

The idea is that God is punishing the sinner. They were telling people as recently as the Eighties that having your breasts stimulated during sex would cause cancer.

I don't even get the hypothesis there. If abortion makes breast cancer chances go up, wouldn't miscarriage or having a baby? It's just so out of left field

It's a distortion of actual medicine though: carrying a pregnancy to term appears to lower the risk of breast cancer. Therefore, by stupid person logic, having an abortion "increases"a woman's chance of cancer. It's a willfully dishonest and cynical misappropriation of data.

I have heard it before, but it just never fails to make me facepalm

x-post - Yeah and also iirc there were several conflicting and inconclusive badly done studies way back when on induced and spontaneous miscarriage that muddied the waters.

Cue Nelson laugh:

http://jezebel.com/5882633/komen-posts-job-listing-for-position-that-looks-suspiciously-like-karen-handels

http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/17158470884/laughing-to-keep-from-crying-of-the-day-rep-john

All time Nelson laugh, folks:

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/komen-official-quits-planned-parenthood-dispute/4da84e62a7d24064878b39df920b2821

They should have fired her last week, this is too little too late.

But but but the birth of a wonderful new website!

http://karenhandelkomen.com/

While I appreciate your raising a possible severance package, I respectfully decline.

See, it wasn't about the money...wait.

the extracts i read from the resignation letter read like flagwaves to anti-choice orgs, exercising some indignance & sudden pride. blarg.

Yay victimization complex

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/06/poor-womens-health-as-political-bargaining-chip/

I like this.

Nicole otm

not parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=nZix2Nm0fKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZix2Nm0fKw

Really glad I forgot my headphones at home today all of a sudden.

gggggggrrrrrr makes me want to stab people in the face

it's really more funny than anything

omg 3:20 i'm dying

okay I got to "vagina fruit rollups" and had to stop

OK, what?

can someone summarize that for me, I'm on iphone

PP wants to turn your kids into sex addicts to sell them condoms and abortions, much evidence therein

yeah, well, a-duh!

I still want to know about vaginal fruit snacks.

thx goole

I still want to know about vaginal fruit snacks.

fructose + vagina sounds like a microorganism meltdown to me tbh

I couldn't watch the whole thing, but 3:20 is definitely LOL funny.

hating on humans knowing that the clitoris is pleasurable is just the saddest thing

i'm surprised it had the 'subtlety' to try to slyly infer anything, when it's elsewhere so brash, but the "an intimate pose with what appears to be an adult man" thing is so deeply awful

super.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/16/oklahoma-senate-passes-personhood-act-effectively-banning-all-abortions/

that author either didn't do enough research on this bill or the bill is so obviously unconstitutional that it'll be enjoined before it takes effect. i'm actually just as inclined to believe it's the former

yeah that thing was cartoonishly awful

ugh, Virginia.

hate living here tbh

Asked once about abortions in the case of incest, Marshall replied that sometimes the incest was voluntary.

“The woman becomes a sin-bearer of the crime, because the right of a child predominates over the embarrassment of the woman,” he said.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

ha that's refreshingly clear tbh

christians who claim to believe abortion is murder, but don't take up violent acts to stop it,* are they hypocrites? like it seems that if you feel murder is happening, you are ethical obligated to do whatever you can to stop it. is it that they don't really, really feel like it's murder (aka, it's like calling your opponent a Nazi - you know they aren't but you're using that language for rhetorical effect)? or is it that they do but they feel threatened by the state? maybe some feel guilty about not taking more drastic actions? i'm really curious about this, but it seems to be a huge ethical disconnect to me...

* nb I know some do, but they are in the minority, the vast majority do not

thinking about this tonight bc slate republished this tucker carlson article:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/02/rick_santorum_prenatal_testing_and_abortion_tucker_carlson_s_classic_essay_on_prenatal_testing_and_the_abortion_of_down_syndrome_babies_.4.html

which i don't find compelling at all as an argument against abortion, but obviously it resonated w/ someone (at slate) pretty significantly that they went out of their way to republish it

"Read Tucker Carlson’s classic essay"

WHAT NEW TYPE OF TROLLING IS THIS?

On the other hand: http://open.salon.com/blog/sarah_gale/2012/02/19/why_rick_santorum_would_have_killed_my_daughter_1

A woman writes about how an amniocentesis saved her daughter's life 6 months into her pregnancy. Without prenatal testing covered by insurance, they'd never have been able to afford the test and her baby would not have lived even 24 hours.