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Post by onelasttime on Jun 28, 2022 5:14:05 GMT
They really are going to go mid-evil aren’t they..
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 28, 2022 5:18:24 GMT
He may have a point…
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Post by naby64 on Jun 28, 2022 13:33:21 GMT
What. The Actual. Fuck?! Prayer at a football match?! The thought of this ever EVER happening here is just laughable. I am speechless. Every Friday night in the Bible Belt. My boys played and there was a huddle at the end of every game on the field. And at some point, I am not sure if they still do, a local pastor would pray for the safety of both teams before the game over the loud speaker. And I will put this out there, the players weren't required to be there but it was strongly, silently suggested. I am sure not all of them were listening to the prayer. "wonder where I can get the quickest burger" "where is the party" "Will Susan be there" "I am so sore and tired" |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 28, 2022 13:35:54 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Jul 2, 2022 19:18:18 GMT
I wish Any Coney Barrett knew the other side of adoption stories. Heartbreaking. And pro life advocates are not speaking up or advocating for birth mothers. After the baby is born, anti- abortionists no longer care about the birth mother,. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/07/01/teen-pregnancy-adoption-abortion/The people most confident in their helpfulness also tended to be the most destructive. My pastor asked me to get onstage at church and share my “testimony” — how God was working in my life despite my mistake — while I was still pregnant. The question of whether it is kind to ask a teenager to process that in front of a crowd was never raised. Pregnant teenagers were a spectacle to be pitied, advised, discussed and, over all, enjoyed.
At 27, I started writing about my experience and sharing it publicly. My inbox filled with notes from strangers, co-workers and even relatives. (I got pregnant when I was 16. When I was 25. When I was 30. I lost the baby. I got an abortion. I kept it. I kept it secret. I feel so lonely.) These women showed me that the cruelty I experienced during an unplanned pregnancy wasn’t an accident; it was a sport, and everyone knows the rules.
But my experience doesn’t need to be tragic to be instructive. It shows that the rosy “pro-life” view of adoption relies on giant, purposeful deletions — namely, of birthmothers and their experiences. It shows that a pregnant teenager can do everything right and still get kicked around by adults eager to do some kicking.
Lately more than usual, I’m thinking about my fellow birthparents. Our ranks could soon swell, and every story will be different. But each birthmother will walk away with a painful understanding that kindness and cruelty, grief and joy, aren’t easy to distinguish. I’m thinking of us this week, moving smartly and stealthily through church services and family dinners. When our pastors and relatives wax poetic, I’m grieving. And when smiling couples hold up signs offering to adopt our babies, I’m laughing.
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Post by casii on Jul 2, 2022 19:37:34 GMT
I followed Gabrielle Blair's Twitter thread about spinning abortions back around to men and her book is coming out in October if anyone wants to read it. I plan to order a few copies: Ejaculate Responsibly.Highlights from her Twitter thread include: F them all. Well I agree with her wholeheartedly, but let me tell you, I've never experienced such twitter violence from bros who had a moment before tweeted that if women didn't want to be pregnant, they just shouldn't be sluts or whores when I countered that men should keep their penis in their pants and consider vasectomies. The shoe on the other foot, or reproductive organ as it were, makes them big mad and gives them all the feels. |
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Post by casii on Jul 2, 2022 19:42:10 GMT
10 year old rape victim denied abortion in OHI can't even. The GOP are monsters. She was ultimately able to travel to another state to have the procedure, but the OH judge discouraged it and that state is currently trying to pass the same medieval restrictions they have in Ohio. Adding this from Beau of the Fifth Column:
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