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From Feminists for Life on Facebook:

As we continue our 50th Birthday celebration, we mark today's anniversary with particular joy in our newly post-Roe world. On August 21, 1974, FFL co-founder Pat Goltz testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Human Life Amendment, which has yet to be ratified. From Pat's testimony:

"Abortion has been presented as a solution to the problems faced by women with untimely pregnancies. The vast majority of these problems can be put into one category: discrimination. We are unilaterally opposed to discrimination based on either sex or maternal status. We reserve the right to be treated as equals, AND to be mothers at the same time. We will not accept the current either/or choice. Abortion is a non-solution. Each time a woman resorts to abortion, she entrenches discrimination. Each time she resorts to abortion, she removes her voice from the arena in which equality for women is being demanded and won. She allows some part of the male power structure to force her into a destructive act, in order to be treated with the dignity which is inherent in her. She may do serious damage to her own spirit...."

Read the rest here! https://www.feministsforlife.org/ffl-co-founder-pat-goltz-testifies-before-congress/

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“I spent a long time replaying the meeting, thinking of all the things I said and did wrong until I realised that the system is wrong, not the new mother who just wants to come back to work.”

She’s not wrong about the system. In the UK alone, an estimated 54,000 women are losing their jobs each year for getting pregnant and another 390,000 are experiencing negative and potentially discriminating treatment at work - numbers that have doubled in the last decade. And whilst the gender pay gap is closing (despite a slight setback due to the Pandemic) in general, for mothers, it continues to rise. In fact, statistics show that by the time her first child reaches 12, a mother is, on average, likely to be earning 33% less per hour than a man.

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reddit childfree people are lowkey kinda fascist. ‘we want childfree airplanes’ ok children and mothers/parents caring for children are still humans in society who deserve rights so put on your noise cancelling headphones and stop being an antisocial freak

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But ask new moms and 8 out of 10 will say they have experienced the memory loss and brain fog popularly characterized as “mommy brain.” Why then, are the studies not finding what so many women experience?

One reason, the authors explain, may be the peace and quiet of the labs where most studies are performed. Without screaming children and a long list of tasks to manage right in front of them, thinking becomes easier and moms perform just as well as women without children.

Another possible reason: “Mommy brain” is not real and people are just quick to judge. A simple slip of the mind in an often overworked and sleep deprived mom is promptly labeled as “mommy brain” by a society expecting women’s cognitive abilities to decline after having children. Women too may have learned to use the term to cope with the impossibilities of new motherhood. Laughing those off and calling it “mommy brain” may well be a cry for help by moms who don’t feel supported.

I wonder if the belief in “mommy brain” contributes to pregnancy/sex discrimination.

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Society is so used to isolating kids and parents from socializing that ANY event is just assumed to be childfree. It’s pathetic.

Also, this sounds so cool and I hope it continues to give people of all ages joy!

Some D&D party is out there playing the coolest campaign ever.

#anti natalism is a disease

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Certain aspects of what makes a woman a woman (or what makes a man a man) can be gleaned from scientific studies that go more than skin-deep. Gender-specific medicine (also called sex/gender-specific medicine or sex-and-gender-sensitive medicine in medical research), is a new field of science that seeks to discover exactly this: how male and female bodies differ in their disease development and response due to differences below the surface, from their hormones, to their brain structures, to their internal physiology, and even down to their DNA. In other words, gender-specific medicine recognizes (and aims to further discover) the inherent differences between men and women and the vast implications those differences have for how medicine can best treat both male and female patients

#women’s health #medical misogyny #sex specific medicine #gender specific medicine #I have to finish reading this later it is a HUGE article! #haven’t posted in a hot minute so have this

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“It started in 1971 when a young attorney named Sarah Weddington argued before the court that pregnant students, working women, and poor women needed access to abortion, rather than to challenge universities, employers, and society to address the unmet needs of mothers and their children. This anti-feminist sentiment was echoed in 1992 when the court determined in Casey that women were basically incompetent, telling women that they cannot succeed in the workplace and have children, implying that bearing a child is an “undue burden.” At Feminists for Life, founded a year before Roe v. Wade was handed down, we never considered having children an “undue burden.” It would be years later that our co-founder Pat Goltz learned from the great suffragist Alice Paul that we were not the first pro-life feminists; the first-wave feminists opposed abortion, too. Nor did we know at the time that during the latter half of the 19th century, the leaders of the women’s movement advocated for the protection of women and children from abortion, along with doctors (including the first women physicians) and the liberal media. Since then, we have widely shared our original research documenting how the first-wave feminists opposed abortion without known exception.”

— Serrin Foster, Don’t underestimate women

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“When we turned up at the clinic, pandemonium broke loose,” student Anna Broomall recalled. Awaiting them in the upper tiers of the amphitheater were nearly 300 male medical students — far more than were typically in attendance. The men began hurling epithets, catcalls, and other offensive language at the women. Some men insulted the women’s appearance while others spit tobacco juice on their dresses…

…During the last hour of the lecture, the male students rained down a barrage of tinfoil wads, paper missiles, spitballs, and tobacco wads upon the women. Throughout it all, the female students never flinched or retaliated, choosing instead to quietly listen and attempt to learn whatever they could amid such chaos. The women’s lack of reaction must have further incensed the men, for they surely hoped to show how fragile and emotional women were.

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Logged in for the first time in forever, why am I seeing posts from people I don’t follow and none of those I do???

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#pro abort hypocrisy #ableism

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#to look into #history

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"I would have helped Anne Frank" shut up you asked me how to report your neighbors to the cops for having more than four people in their backyard in May 2020

#kajsjfjfkffk #ranting

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Pro-choicers shut up forever challenge.

#tw eugenics #tw ableism mention #anti ableism #pro abort hypocrisy

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People will brag about breaking cycles and then not know how to take a deep breath and walk away.

Part of a longer thread about corporal punishment that I don't care about but this is one of the funniest contributions to that debate I've ever read

Getting kicked to death because mommy needs to unwind and self-care is fucking valid and um can we normalise stimming by beating your son for no reason? Can we think about how maybe beating your child is how some neurodivergent parents regulate their emotions? Can we have some empathy?

#just put your kid somewhere safe #and then #walk away #have a break #level out and return #9/10 you will return to a regulated child who is chill #now anyway

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#ranting #seeing this a lot in my rural area #rage

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“Jolán Roe” (Hungary 1968)

Hungary legalized first-trimester abortion on demand and second-trimester abortion in various circumstances in 1956. Before then, abortion was only legal in applicable maternal health indications.

The Hungarian abortion laws instated in 1956 permitted abortion on demand in the first trimester (and until 18 weeks for unmarried teenagers 16–20.) Later abortions were still allowed for medical indications. The law was later loosened even further.

As a whole, Hungary saw a significant increase in the rate of abortions, which at one point outnumbered the country’s live births. With this came a massive increase in conditions such as placenta previa, premature labor and other conditions, showing the effects of abortion legalization as a third variable for future obstetric complications. Some effects, however, were more direct. Despite then-stringent regulation to protect maternal health (trimester limits, requiring that all abortions be done in sterile hospitals by experienced obstetricians, and typically keeping abortion clients at the hospital until the day after the operation), women still died from legalized abortion-on-demand.

One case of this was a woman who was reported to an Obstetrical Register and noted in a case report years later. She was not given a name in the report but will be referred to here as Jolán Roe.

Jolán underwent a legal abortion in a Hungarian hospital in 1968. Even with all of the safeguards in place (which dramatically put the standards in most places with legal abortion today to shame), she outlived her baby by less than three weeks. On the 19th day after her abortion, Jolán committed suicide.

The study examining cases of maternal death in Hungary from legal abortion acknowledged and recorded her case, but chose to exclude her from their estimate of maternal deaths. Apparently this was because they didn’t consider Jolán’s suicidal ideation to be direct enough of a result despite now-abundant evidence linking abortion to risk of suicide. (This raises the question of how many women and girls may have been excluded from attempts to estimate complication rates if their symptoms were thought to be “indirect” or if they suffered mental health problems.)

Dozens of other women reported in the study died of various causes such as embolism, sepsis, peritonitis and anesthesia complications.

Others who suffered mental health problems and committed suicide after abortion include Stacy Zallie, Carol Cunningham, Arlin Dela Cruz, Sandra Kaiser, Jade Rees, Emma Beck, Ashley Barnett, Haley Mason, Ashli Blake, Charlotte Dawson, Laura Grunas, “Sandra Roe,” “Sylvie Roe,” “Stacy Roe” and Jiah Khan.

#maternal health #maternal mortality #birth justice #hungary

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“Can you define woman without excluding any woman?” Yes, I can, actually.

A woman is a person born with at least one X chromosome and with the absence of a Y chromosome.

It’s fairly simple. People with Turner’s syndrome (XO) are ALWAYS female, and people with Klinefelter’s syndrome (XXY) are ALWAYS male, because the presence of the Y chromosome makes them male. And this isn’t my opinion by the way, this is medical literature. We’re also talking about sex here, not gender. This includes any variation of chromosomes - for example, the extremely rare genetic disorder, XXXYY, people with this disorder are ALWAYS MALE, even though they have more than one (and two!) X chromosomes, because the presence of the Y chromosome makes you male.

I give any radfems and/or TERFs the right to use this explanation whenever some TRA trues to pull the “but what about (extremely rare genetic disorder) or (someone with no ovaries, a hysterectomy, etc). Because you don’t really need to define “woman” by external genitalia or even anatomy, because there’s one thing that all women have, no matter what. And it’s at least one X chromosome, and no Y chromosome.

#medical terminology #genetic mutation #i understand some ppl with these disorders may have a gender expression different from their biology #but this is about the biological sex #biological sex is real and has real ramifications regardless of social definitions #please start acting like it