So this is happening…
28. Professional Hot Mess/Social Worker/Tumblr Grandma. My mind is a messy place, but I'd like to share it with you.
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Not only if:
- They are “too young.”
- They have been raped.
- Their health will be affected.
- The child will be born into pain or suffering.
I am 100% for others in ALL SITUATIONS because they are not my situations to control. They are not my business but I am behind their choice 100%.
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Feministing: House GOP lets the Violence Against Women Act expire for first time since 1994
Jan. 3 2013
Here’s the sad truth: It is not all surprising that House Republicans have blocked the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) a final time, officially allowing it to expire until the next Congress. This is the first time since the VAWA was first passed in 1994 that it has failed to be re-authorized. The VAWA is normally a bipartisan bill that passes without controversy.
But not under these House Republicans. Given their track record for doing nothing productive for the American people they were elected to represent, it’s not surprising they would throw victims of domestic violence and sexual assault under the bus because they want to ensure no assistance is given to Native Americans, LGBT folks, and immigrants. Rep. Eric Cantor and his ilk are literally blocking the re-authorization because the updated bill expands access to help to certain types of people Republicans don’t want to help. Ya know, just like Jesus.
It’s also not surprising, because this is the same crew of winners that recently blocked funding for the disabled and for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
In short: House Republicans will do anything to pretend they are sticking to invented conservative orthodoxy and ideologies that don’t align with any pragmatic form of governance here on earth.
The expiration of the VAWA hits home for me personally. Everyone who reads this site knows, I’m a rape survivor. After my assault, I went to get free counseling at a rape crisis center. Funding of which is provided by the VAWA.
When I searched for free counseling and jotted down the numbers to call, hoping to get help in my time of need, I had to call THREE different places before I was able to secure an appointment. The first two were all booked up for weeks and in my traumatized state I pressed on knowing that I would need the counseling to process fully what happened to me.
All survivors know that the immediate aftermath is a particularly sensitive time, with feelings of guilt, blame, rage, fear, anger, confusion, denial, depression and sadness. In many ways, I think it is similar to the stages of grief.
It’s essential that these feelings be processed with the help of a professional. All survivors know that your family and friends, no matter how well meaning, may not have the capacity to help you process all of these complex emotions and the trauma associated with being victimized.
That is why the VAWA is absolutely necessary. And that is why the Republican failure to pass the re-authorization that was sent to them by the Senate in April is a failure that should go down in the history books.
Rape happens to Republicans. It’s a shame that partisan politics couldn’t be put aside to pass a bill that shouldn’t even be up for a debate. The election came and went and all of the pundits forgot about the “War on Women.” I’m here to tell you it’s not over, it continues on in earnest, and it won’t ever be over until elected officials stop pretending like sexual assault and domestic violence happen to someone else. It doesn’t happen to someone else; it can happen to anyone.
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YAY! Someone made a gif set of the video I posted before.Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s).
Damn. Get it, girl.
I love how in the last gif he’s like “oh, come on”
like the rest was fine but don’t call me impatient
omfg
this gifset!!!!
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No, but when a driver is convicted of drunk driving their license is often revoked or restricted. They may not get to operate more dangerous, risky equipment, even if it was their job. Guns may not need to be outlawed, but like driving cars, some additional guidelines might be life saving, especially given the events of the past decade.
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➜No, Mrs. Romney, hard is not having enough money to feed your kids.
Hard is working 80 hours per week and still not making it.
Hard is watching your wife suffer with cancer, and not having access to good medical care.
Hard is going to bed every night wondering if you will be killed by a US drone.
Hard is being an 18 year-old boy with no front teeth – no dental care – and trying to get hired for a job.
Hard is missing your father’s funeral because your boss won’t give you the time off.
Hard is being a little kid working in a toxic farm field.
Hard is being in prison – tortured because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Hard is being Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, or Lynne Stewart.
Hard is living in a country that has no nuclear capability. Those are the ones on the list for US military intervention.
Hard is being stared at because you are homeless.
Hard is living in a country that is being occupied by US Military Forces.
Hard is being an unarmed man assassinated in his own bedroom.
Hard is being the mother of the little boy who died from a tooth abscess because his Mom did not have money for a dentist.
Hard is knowing that no one in power is on your side.
Hard is always being on the wrong side of the desk.
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I was reading the newspaper at 3 years old with my dad because of Sesame Street. I love phonics to this day because of it. I still have that 1-2-3 4 5 6-7-8-9-10 11 12 song stuck in my head and to this day I can’t count without thinking about the tune. I was there when Mr. Hooper died and I learned about death from not just that show but the Mr. Hooper book. I learned “1 2 3 is ichi ni san” when Big Bird went to Japan. I used to sing Ernie’s song when I looked up at the moon. I used to watch the Sesame Street in the morning and the repeat in the afternoon when I was little. My favorite doll was an Ernie doll and I remember carrying him around forever. My favorite book was “The Monster at the End of This Book” with Grover, and my dad did a great Grover voice when he read it. The only memories I have of Sesame Street are good ones.
I learned to love learning because of Sesame Street. The only thing they’re indoctrinating people with is how to be nice to other people and act like a normal human being. Maybe if some of these Fox News anchors watched it they wouldn’t have turned out to be such awful people? Or maybe they did and they just decided to throw their hearts away long ago to Rupert Murdoch.
If you consider Sesame Street liberal propaganda you’re out of your microscopic mind.
Reblogging this for the comment.
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Courtesy of this facebook page. So excellent.
From the photos:
- “If you can’t trust me with a choice, then how can you trust me with a child?”
- “‘No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her success.’ - Susan B. Anthony, 1872
- “Would you kill your wife to spare your fetus?”
- “I don’t own a womb, and I don’t want to own anyone else’s!”
- “‘No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body.’ - Margaret Sanger”
- “Every baby wanted/ Every mother willing/ Pro-choice”
- “Legalized abortions were not the start of women having abortions. They were the end of women dying from unsafe and unregulated abortions. Don’t go backwards!”
- “This is not a theocracy. Keep your myth out of our government.”
- “Things that belong in a uterus: IUDs, babies, hormones. Things that do not belong in a uterus: religion, laws, men, ‘persons,’ misplaced moral outrage”
- “In Oklahoma, 3,429 children are already awaiting adoption (most recent statistic: 2009)”
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➜No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.President Barack Obama (via likespancakes)
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