UNTIL ANTI-CHOICE BIGOTRY ENDS

tehsunshine:

tehsunshine:

lilyofpeace:

I am a Catholic. I am pro life and against birth control. Let the attacks begin.

Those are your personal beliefs and you are allowed to have them. Now, if you believe that either of these things should be outlawed for all individuals just because you don’t like them, then we have a problem.

Feminists (typically) don’t give a shit when people with conservative views mind their own business. We care when you try to force your beliefs on us.

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We believe they should be outlawed because birth “control” is

• An Abortifacient.
• Abortion is murder, period.
• Also it is harmful to the human body. Did you know birth control actually stops your organs from working? I mean how anti-female is that? You are actually viewing your fertility as a curse, not something to be embraced. I don’t understand how anyone who calls themselves a feminist can be for birth control when they are actually against their own body.

I’m not sure what kind of bullshit ignorance-only sexual education you’ve been exposed to, but there is more than one kind of contraception. Barrier methods such as external and internal condoms, diaphragms, and sponges cannot possibly terminate any pregnancies as they serve only to block fully functioning spermatozooa from ever reaching the vicinity of fully functioning oocytes. Sterilization methods such as vasectomies and tubal ligation work similarly, creating a permanent physical barrier to fertilization.

Additionally, when used alone, these methods do nothing to disrupt typical cellular processes. Even individuals who have undergone a vasectomy or tubal ligation still produce fully functioning gametes and experience normal hormone levels, as their testes or ovaries have not been touched.

Now, I have gathered from your ill-informed rambling that you are referring to oral hormonal contraception when you say “birth control.” The first fallacious statement you made regarding oral contraceptives is the ridiculous idea that “the pill” causes abortions. Bullshit. The oral contraceptive pill (OC) works by preventing ovulation, which prevents fertilization should any rogue spermatozooa make it to the fallopian tubes.  This is the primary mechanism by which OC works. OC also serves to thicken cervical mucus, which prevents semen from making it past the vagina and into the uterus. The final way that OC may work is by thinning the endometrium, which could prevent implantation of a blastocyst in the rare instance that fertilization could occur.

I have heard feeble anti-choice and religious arguments against oral contraception for this reason. However, medicine is not on your side. Pregnancy cannot begin until eight to ten days after intercourse, and does not begin until a blastocyst implants into the uterine wall. OC cannot remove an already implanted embryo, and therefore cannot induce abortion. Additionally, the chances of OC failing enough to allow ovulation and subsequent fertilization, but still functioning well enough to reduce endometrial thickness to the point of preventing implantation, are next to impossible.

Your indoctrination against a very safe drug is thorough, and I congratulate those who have influenced you. However, you are wrong. Oral contraception does not “stop your organs from working.” This statement is very vague, and implies that ALL THE ORGANS cease to function the second an individual swallows their first pill. This is not true. OC does not even make the ovaries “stop working.” If this were the case, women* would cease to produce “female” hormones and would lose “female” characteristics over time. Obviously, this does not happen.

What oral contraception does is prevent ovulation by suppressing follicular formation in a manner similar to what your body does when it is pregnant (because, as you know, one does not typically ovulate while pregnant). While those untrained in science and medicine may argue “Oh, but that’s natural,” it must be noted that all biological processes have a molecular course of action, and that even something as common-sense and unremarkable as suppression of ovulation during pregnancy is still caused by a signaling cascade of cellular response. OC does the same thing.

It is also silly to argue against a form of medication by saying “it is against your own body.” Millions of people around the world ingest chemicals with the intent of changing the molecular responses produced by their own bodies. Psychiatric drugs (including SSRIs and other depression medications)? Against your body’s normal neurotransmitters. Erectile dysfunction drugs? Against your body’s normal hormone levels. Drugs intended to decrease cholesterol (ie Lipitor)? Against your body’s normal lipid levels. Without molecular manipulation, there is no medicine.

Many individuals also use oral contraceptives to correct hormonal imbalances, which cause things like severe acne, dysmenorrhea, migraine headaches, amenorrhea, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, endometriosis, or ovarian cysts. Are these individuals “working against their bodes” by attempting to regain control over hormonal symptoms?

Other religious arguments tend to revolve around the alleged risks of taking oral contraceptives. Fortunately, these myths have been debunked. While there are risks involved with taking OC (especially for older women* and smokers), these side effects are mild in comparison to the side effects of other prescription drugs. As anyone who has watched a drug ad on television knows, all prescription drugs can cause weird stuff to happen. OC is safe, and it doesn’t cause cancer.

Your final argument is actually pretty degrading to all human beings, particularly women*. When you argue that “fertility is to be embraced!” you are ignoring what makes us human: our ability to lead lives of meaning and purpose, and not to impulsively follow evolutionary instincts. By suggesting that all individuals should strive to reproduce at maximum capacity, you are relegating us to the status of other animals driven by the need to perpetuate their own genetic lineage.

Women* have other desires and goals than to be broodmares for the church. While there is nothing shameful or wrong about personally wanting to become a parent, it is disgusting to imply that we are good for nothing more than a perpetual cycle of gestation, birth, and child-rearing. Fertility is an amazing gift to some women*, but it is an unpleasant reality for others who either cannot or do not want to become parents. And the same modern medicine that has improved women’s* lives by decreasing the maternal* mortality rate hundreds of times over has also improved our lives by allowing us to choose if and when we become pregnant.

If you are truly hung up on what is natural for a woman* with regard to reproduction, I suggest that you immediately start having unrestricted PIV intercourse, then seek no prenatal care and give birth with no assistance, pain management, or antibiotics. And then hope that you and your child live.

Have fun!

That common moment when an anti-choicer pulls out teh science and then gets schooled by someone who actually knows what they are talking about it.

hollysaidgolightly:

poem written from the perspective of a fetus

The dear mommy thing was bad enough, now we have demon spawn fetus poets that are writing anti-choice poems from the womb.

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT FETUSES CAN WRITE POEMS UNTIL ANTICHOICE BIGOTRY ENDS. 

I pledge to give up giving up caffeine.  I need my energy to keep fighting the propaganda and disinformation that anti-choicers keep putting out.  Giving up a natural energy source would be playing right into their hands.  

No more quitting caffeine, until anti-choice bigotry ends. 

I will give up photoshopping horrible lies (in even worse fonts) onto photos of babies and spreading it as fact about abortion.

That’s right — there will be no more tiny feet, no more babies sleeping in the arms of their parents and no more smiling white blonde-haired blue-eyed babies asking you not to kill them.

I’ve never even been to my first PRO-LYFE rally and gotten to carry one of the signs with the bead babies on it — but I will abstain from doing so until anti-choice bigotry ends. :’(