Being a woman is constantly risking a parasite starting to grow inside you, eventually burst out of you and keep draining you for emotional attention for the rest of your life.

Whoever wrote this should be locked up

Women should be free to feel this way. An unwanted pregnancy is just that, a parasite. How can you promote individualism and self ownership and not be pro choice?

Because someone’s value of life is not dependent on their level of development or dependency.

And no, a pregnancy is a pregnancy. Parasitism is parasitism. They are two different biological concepts.

Excuse me?

These are parasites: They only steal nutrients to increase in size until detected & removed. If not detected, they remain inside & grow but rarely does the body reject them without meds. So it’s safe to say we don’t give birth to parasites. That’s the last thing they want.

This is not a parasite:

All nutrients passed through the umbilical cord go towards fetal development. And the end goal is birth and life beyond the womb, not to stay in the uterus permanently without ever leaving. There’s a purpose. Plus the maternal fetal relationship is structured differently from parasitism. Also despite all the nutrients that parasites take they don’t really develop much so they stay looking like this:

*shivers* Ugly.

Meanwhile pregnancy takes a tiny egg and turns it into something like this:

Need I add more proof: immediately after birth the cord is cut & in about a year most children can already feed themselves and by adulthood they can actually go and prepare their own food or buy it.

So yeah, pregnancy is nothing like parasitism.

Get the picture?

If I say scary words, that means I’m right, right?

I would love to have an actual debate some day that didn’t just use sensationalist terminology, political buzzwords, and emotions. 

Put a word inside my inbox

And I’ll tell you a fact about myself based off that word

I mentioned a few months ago about going out to an abortion mill with Sarah, who is pregnant, a mother of 5, a foster mom of multiple children, and an OB/GYN (so basically, an expert on all things pertaining to abortion). We spoke on ectopic pregnancies specifically. Here’s a recent post from her.

Had to repost as images because Tumblr refused to post 90% of the text, even in multiple posts.

is fulmetal alchemist a good first time anime?

ive never watched any anie (besides maybe an anime movie or pokemon or aggretsuko but that doesnt count) but ive never seen a full on anime series and i heard good things about fma:b

is it a goof first time anime? im curious about it. or should i go for some thing else im bored and i want to watch somehting

okay! im watching FMA: brotherhood (since u guys said that was the better version) should i watch the dubbed version? i dont normally like subs. but did the dub change anything drastically about it? (like a shitty 4kidz dub where they remove violence or the gays ™ or whatever.) is it ok to watch the netflix dub?

markiplier escaped the LA gangs and went into the anime world to hide

You will look back on this & hopefully be able to laugh at your Markiplier joke…

bitch the fuck are you talking about

ok what the actual fuck is this thing

WHAT THE FUCK

“i dont JUST gush over my daughter”

“i gush over my wife too!”

ok i change my mind i fucking love this guy

Yeah, that’s about the exact train of thought watching FMAB

It’s a great first-time anime because it’s only about 60 episodes, but it’s a pretty common one in the community, it’s a great story line, AND IT INTRODUCES YOU TO PAIN

I’m just tired of people pretending that women have to be hard all the time. That women have to lose their femininity in order to be of importance to the world. Can we go back to women being soft and strong in their own ways instead of trying to take over men’s roles in every aspect of life?

I am literally astounded by the number of pro-choicers recently stating “yeah I know a fetus is alive, but that doesn’t matter because I don’t want it in my body inconveniencing me and my life, so I deserve the right to terminate it.” 

Was I naive to think the debate would end when science finally convinced everyone of the life in the womb?  Was I naive to think, in this the age of human rights, social justice, philanthropy, and equality, that those same basic human rights would be applied to the human life growing in the womb?  

“It’s a life!”  “I know.”  “It deserves human rights!”  “I don’t care!” 

Where do we even go from there? Logic and morality simply hit the brick wall of the pro-choicers’ adamant refusal to let go of their “right to choose.”   

Hey, if you genuinely believe that men are trash, if you really think that men can’t love as deeply and as authentically as women, if you think that women are inherently better than men in any way, if you think men deserve any less love and compassion and kindness than women, or if you think that men should be excluded from body positivity and forms of support,

I’m really sorry you haven’t had good men and boys in your life. I’m sorry that something happened to you that made you believe these lies. I’m really sorry. But saying these things is untrue, hurtful, unkind, and cruel.

Boys and men can be as good and kind and loving and worthy as women. Full stop.

Another woman utterly failed by our society’s devaluation of women’s reproductive health. We can’t wait around for male doctors to decide what we need to know. This is why we need to take control and educate ourselves about our own bodies.

and here’s some comments i saw under the post. why is this a pattern?? why is this a recurring theme?? why is this information not common knowledge? what the fuck are doctors doing??

This is news to me so let’s share it so people will know!

Gross tmi: but i passed a pretty big clot after having my daughter. It was about the size of a baseball. It actually hurt worse because while 15 hours of labor opened my cervix, i passed the clot in 30 minutes. I knew it was a possibility because of my midwife and reading, but everyone Ive told after this (mostly other pregnant women) were shocked that this could happen.

In our culture, it’s much more common to do deep research about what family cars we want to buy than we do about childbirth when we ’re pregnant.

Tmi: I passed a huge clot after birth in the bathroom of my hospital room and called the nurse sobbing because I didn’t know it was normal. She treated me like an idiot, but NO ONE told me it was a possibility. And the pain associated with healing for the first couple of weeks after birth was worse than the labor imo. Again, I had no idea. They didn’t tell me a thing besides “sitz bath regularly and change your pads.” Before discharging me from the hospital.

I was most definitely told about this in school. Fucking hell, 4-6 weeks of bleeding? My periods were/are bad enough, why the hell don’t we get told this?

I didn’t know it could last so long, wtf? Is the bleeding inevitable after birth? 

Bleeding is inevitable after birth - your uterine wall is shedding a fuck ton of lining. It can last from three to six weeks (possible longer) and it tapers off.

More TMI - I passed a MASSIVE clot after my fourth birth. At this point I already knew this could happen - it’s normal. What I DIDN’T know, was that I had caused it.

My post birth contractions were so bad after the birth that it felt like full transition labor. And they don’t give you anything for the pain. So I used a hot water bottle, without the nurses knowing, and it caused me to bleed even more. I lost so much blood that by the first time they sat me up to go to the bathroom, I fainted. It took three more tries until I could sit up.

Anyway, that’s not the point. The point is, the next morning I passed a clot the SIZE OF ANOTHER PLACENTA I KID YOU NOT, and I know what is and is not normal. So I called for the nurse and through the door told her I had passed a huge clot, and her response was - “It’s not big. I know what big is.” She hadn’t even looked. So I rolled my eyes and said, “Yeah, no. It’s big, I’m telling you.”

So, sounding extremely put upon, she asked me to open the door. I did, and after a long pause she goes, “Okay, yeah, that’s a little big.”

YOU DON’T SAY.

The point I’m trying to get across is that this shit is so common - women not knowing this stuff is so expected, and it keeps getting reinforced. People don’t expect you to know anything, don’t teach you anything, and then make you feel like you’re totally ignorant and a burden for your lack of knowledge when THEY WON’T SHARE.

Fucking learn EVERYTHING you can when it comes to childbirth, girls. It is the single most empowering thing you can do for yourself. And if you missed something, that’s okay. But the more knowledge you arm yourself with, the more in control of your situation you’ll be.

A few post partum tips:

This is just a few things, but PLEASE feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions about ANYTHING childbirth/pregnancy/nursing related. I have four incredible kids. I’ve done it all - c-section, vacuume birth, episiotimy, stitches, with an epidural, without an epidural. I’m here.

Talking openly about your beliefs is not shoving your religion down other people’s throats. Believe it or not, that’s literally what religious freedom is, and if you antagonize and attack people for simply talking about what they believe to be true, you are the problem, not them.

reblog if you ARE CATHOLIC, if you SUPPORT CATHOLICS, or if you are SECRETLY a SMALL DRAGON.

how about all of the above

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cross yourself, then tag yourself

Hi, God has a plan for you. Even though you might have messed up a million times, you aren’t strong enough to mess up God’s plan. If you are genuinely trying to pursue Him, He will direct your paths. The things that you have struggled with in the past might be the very things He can use to encourage others through you.

“you aren’t strong enough to mess up God’s plan.”

Mary and the children

Mary loves children. Children love Mary.

no offence but angels with their 6 wings, blazing halos, multitudes of eyes, 4 faces + booming voices are 100 times more terrifying than any demon I’ve ever seen a description of. oh it’s a dude with horns. that’s chill. come back when you’re an eternal arcane wheel of fire and maybe i’ll be afraid of you.

I think these images are SO COOL and I’ve actually heard something about this! 

They say that demons are intentionally not too terrifying to start to lull you into a false sense of security, and then BANG! Demon stuff when you weren’t expecting it. But! God has no reason to lie, so when He sends an angel, they have to be all “BE NOT AFRAID!” because, like, why bother trying to contain God’s majesty?

They said something along the lines of “Demons start as compelling encounters, and lead to ruin, but angels start as terrifying encounters, but lead to peace.”