“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. The human embryos that are destroyed in stem-cell research do not have brains, or even neurons. Consequently, there is no reason to believe they can suffer their destruction in any way at all. It is worth remembered, in this context, that when a person's brain has died, we currently deem it acceptable to harvest his organs (provided he has donated them for this purpose) and bury him in the ground. If it is acceptable to treat a person whose brain has died as something less than a human being, it should be acceptable to treat a blastocyst as such. If you are concerned about suffering in this universe, killing a fly should present you with greater moral difficulties than killing a human blastocyst.”
— Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian NationPro-life people
That exploit and use slavery for their agenda need to remember
Enslaved Black women had abortions
They used the knowledge they had of herbs to help each other have abortions. Some enslaved women were so proficient in their knowledge of herbs (knowledge brought with them from Africa) , they became to go-to women for abortions.
Its documented in some places in the Caribbean (and i think America), enslaved Black women were aborting so and had perfected it to such a level, there wasn’t enough children being born to be sold into slavery and some plantations were almost brought to their knees because of this. In response, plantation owners set up incentives like giving freedom to enslaved Black women if they had a certain amount of children (i think it was 7) but they rarely ever got freedom and they tended to continue to move the amount of children they had to have to get freedom
Another reminder: enslaved Black women sometimes purposefully had abortions not just so they won’t bring children into this world that would have to go through what they did, but to hurt the number of people being born into slavery and to bring down the plantations they were slaves on.
Fucking white idiots
Like your ass gives two shit about Black life
Pro-life congressman bullied his mistress into getting an abortion
current.comThe Huffington Post has obtained the transcript of a 2000 phone call made by pro-life Congressman Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, in which he pressured his former mistress to have an abortion.
In the call DesJarlais asks his lover to terminate a pregnancy.
“You told me you’d have an abortion, and now we’re getting too far along without one,” he tells the woman who he met when she was a patient of his.
They also discuss whether he will accompany her to the clinic for the aforementioned procedure.
“You told me you would have time to go with me and everything,” she says.
“I said, if I could, I would, didn’t I? And I will try,” he replies. “If I can [find] time, you’re saying you still will?”
Want fewer abortions? Give away birth control
current.com
If you want to lower the abortion rate, there is a simple and extremely effective way to do it without changing the law. You can see it in our number of the day: 61 percent.
That’s approximately how far the abortion rate fell among a group of women in St. Louis when birth control was simply given away for free. The drop in the teen birth rate was even more impressive: 81 percent.
This came out of a study by Washington University in which 9,000 women — many of whom were poor or uninsured — were offered a choice of contraceptives at no cost. Most ended up getting IUDs or other implants, which are the most effective options and are also usually quite expensive.
But the drop in unwanted pregnancies more than made up for the expense. That’s good news for all of us, because we may soon see similar results across the entire country.
The president’s Affordable Care Act now gives access to contraception without co-pays. So never mind trying to overturn Roe v. Wade. If you’re anti-abortion, stand up for Obamacare.
