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Things that will help lower abortion rates:
- Comprehensive sex education in schools.
- Cheaper/easier access to birth control, condoms, and other preventative methods.
- Openness and communication between parents and sexually active children.
- Openness within the community regarding Planned Parenthood centers and health departments that provide cheap/free sexual health services.
- Implementation of sexual and reproductive health services geared toward trans* individuals and their sexual/reproductive health.
- Networks of support implemented to counsel and assist pregnant persons who will have a hard time paying for prenatal care, hospital delivery bills, and after birth care.
- Systems set up within schools that help pregnant teens stay in school while also being able to take care of and raise their child(ren.)
Things that will not lower abortion rates:
- Banning abortion and implementing laws that make it harder to get abortions.
- Limiting birth control access, making birth control harder for teens to get, making birth control more expensive, ect.
- Promoting abstinence only sex education.
- No communication between parents and sexually active teens.
- Schools that expel pregnant students.
- Incomplete/inaccurate sexual and reproductive health services for trans* individuals.
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About “objectification” - what does it really mean?
Objectification isn’t “finding someone attractive”, or leering at them, or harassing them, although it can play into all of those things.
Objectification is literally seeing someone as a non-human object, like a cube, or a climbing frame.
Objectification is when you only acknowledge a woman when she has placed herself inside a plastic “object” shell created out of makeup, restrictive clothing, performed feminine behaviour and is in some kind of vulnerable situation.
What’s being acknowledged then isn’t a woman any more, it’s the exoskeleton/cage of “woman”.
If parts of a woman show outside of the cage - for example, stretch marks, or un-made-up eyes (made-up = fantastical = not real), or god forbid a defiant personality, it will either be forced back into the cage (oh, she’s so feisty! kitten got claws!) or, the woman having “failed” to present as an object, she will not be acknowledged as a “woman”.
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Do they really believe that abortion is murder? (a handy dandy chart, courtesy of Alas, A Blog!)
Almost none of their policies make sense if they really see no difference between the death of a fetus and the death of a four-year-old. However, nearly all their policies make sense if they’re seeking to make sure that women who have sex “face the consequences.” are punished. After years of seeing this pattern repeated again and again, it’s difficult to take them at their word.
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It occurs to me that people might not know wtf I’m even talking about, so: this is Thee Satisfaction. I mean what the fuck would YOU do if you walked into a cafe and they were just standing there looking at you like “what, we’re Thee Satisfaction”? Btw they look just as excellent and fabulous irl.
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