God is Good 💙
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Psalm 28:7 KJV
Today I saw an ultrasound of an unborn baby at 13 weeks. It’s so cool to see how the unborn act the same as they do after they’re born. They hiccup, suck their thumb, dance around, turn. They can be so active in the womb, it’s amazing!
Do you also think it's "so cool" to force women and girls to be pregnant and give birth against our will?
There's nothing "pro-life" about your ideology; you don't care about the lives of the women and girls whose mass torture and murder you support in order to force us to produce unwanted children.
Anyone not authorized to be in my body is going to be removed, and idgaf if their death is necessary for that removal.
We do not force pregnancy on anyone. Abortion is forcing your body to birth a dead baby. We pass legislation to protect women and their babies. We have pregnancy centers and organizations focused on helping desperate mothers in need. We oppose murder of any kind. We also don’t support torture. We don’t force you to reproduce. Women and men make that decision when they choose to have sex, knowing there’s always a chance of reproduction occurring.
poll time!!
please reblog with your answer and country!!
i, for example, have fired a gun, and am from canada.
enjoy!!
edit to say: air rifles, bb guns, paintball markers, etc, DO NOT COUNT. only REAL firearms (as in gunpowder powered) count.
More than one. US of A.
reblog to hand a mutual a crisp fresh grapes
A useful article from King Arthur Flour (my beloved) on baking while disabled.
This genuinely might make me cry. I already deeply appreciate King Arthur for making the best GF 1 for 1 flour. And having good recipes. But an article posted by them from someone with disabilities about how to do the thing even with disabilities? That’s just genuinely lovely. I know that my bad there is low, but it’s low for a reason and hopefully stuff like this can continue to raise that bar for disabled people like me.
For what it’s worth, oh fellow anxious people who may look at this and think that it doesn’t apply to you, as someone who often struggles with anxiety, I also found these tips really helpful and actually already use some of them! When I get anxious, I can’t focus as well, and when I can’t focus, I forget things. Things like setting multiple timers, labeling, pre-measuring out my ingredients, and checking things off in the instructions have all been supremely helpful for me to use to bake well. These little hacks work around the mean goblins in our brains and shove them back in the ground where they belong
Can you give me some arguments about abortion and eugenics with black Americans in mind? My older sister is pregnant with her second child and everyone (our mom, her child’s father, our aunts and grandma) are pushing for her to have an abortion. She’s a great mom but she’s young and we’re poor. My moms also delivering ultimatums like she’s not helping her like with her son. I can tell she doesn’t want to but she feels a lot of pressure. I just want to help her feel supported and there’s another way.
Hello! I'm sorry your sister is being pressured into an abortion. That's horrible and completely unfair to her. Keep offering her emotional and moral support. I will link other resources to help support her and her children.
Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, was a known eugenicist who wanted to supply birth control and abortions to the black community because she believed their children would be burdens to the nation.
But Sanger's preferences went beyond race. In her 1922 book "Pivot of Civilization" she unabashedly called for the extirpation of "weeds . . . overrunning the human garden"; for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and the maladjusted"; and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races."
Sanger's own racist views were scarcely less opprobrious. In 1939 she and Clarence Gamble made an infamous proposal called "Birth Control and the Negro," which asserted that "the poorer areas, particularly in the South . . . are producing alarmingly more than their share of future generations." Her "religion of birth control" would, she wrote, "ease the financial load of caring for with public funds . . . children destined to become a burden to themselves, to their family, and ultimately to the nation."
Following Sanger's death in 1966, Planned Parenthood felt so confident that it had safely buried her past that it began boasting about "the legacy of Margaret Sanger." And it began handing out cutely named Maggie Awards to innocents who often had no inkling of her real views. The first recipient was Martin Luther King--who clearly had no idea that Sanger had inaugurated a project to set his people free from their progeny. "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members," Sanger wrote to Gamble. Had Dr. King known why he may have been chosen to receive the award, he would have recoiled in horror.
She also referred to people as "human weeds":
In promoting birth control, she advanced a controversial "Negro Project," wrote in her autobiography about speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group and advocated for a eugenics approach to breeding for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”
In the Black community in particular, abortion rates have become so high that abortion is a public health crisis. As Live Action News’ Danny David reported in 2016, “Relying on statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Guttmacher Institute, the team of researchers concluded that abortion is responsible for… 61.1% of black American deaths, and a shocking 64% of Hispanic/Latino deaths – making abortion by far the leading cause of death for blacks and Hispanics/Latinos.”
One of my favorite pro-life activists is Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical school.
She also argued that the abortion industry was targeting the Black community. “Blacks suffer more from abortion because what looks like help is actually striking against them,” she said in 1977. “Blacks are fewer. They will disappear sooner.” This prediction has been sadly prescient, as Black women get a disproportionate number of abortions, the highest rate among all women, and in some cities, like New York, more Black children have been aborted in recent years than were born.
I'd recommend you read that article about her. She's an inspiration in the movement.
Here are some black pro-life organizations:
I would urge you to call 211 to figure out what resources are available to your sister in your local county.
You can see if your local Catholic church has a St Vincent de Paul which will give your family free food upon request and help pay a bill if needed. I know Baptist churches also offer financial assistance, if needed. You can save money on bills by getting food for free from food banks, as well. Visit or call your local crisis pregnancy center about what services they can offer to your sister. I know many pro-life centers will give her free baby items and baby clothes, and I know some offer mother support groups.
Here is a master list of available pregnancy resources:
Make sure she knows she's not alone and there are people out there willing to help support her. Keep offering her support! You're doing great! I'm sorry your sister is dealing with pressure from family to abort her baby.
Let me know if you need any other information! Hoping you are able to find helpful resources to help her choose life.
-Sarah
https://letthemlive.org/ may also be of help!
Being coerced into an abortion will do far, FAR more harm than good. Let her know so many of us are cheering her on. If she ever needs donations or tips let us know!
Check for pregnancy related help where you live. There's programs where I live that take care of prenatals and other vitamins and even the potential cost of formula and diapers.
Is it the middle of August? Yes
Am I still listening to Christmas music? Also yes
"Go! Be an influencer!"
-Me to the apple I throw in a paper bag of avocados to get them to ripen faster
what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.
>password sharing is estimated to cost them several billion dollars
KEEP SHARING THEM PASSWORDS
Password sharing actually doesnt cost them anything, every time u share a password they dont have to pay u for that. Its free. They just use that language bc they say that not having everyone buy into their service is a loss of a customer they /never even had/ and are pretending they would have made money from those non customers
They aren't losing money, they're just mad they aren't making more money. Absolutely share passwords with friends and people you trust.
I wouldn't buy Disney+ even if someone else paid for my subscription, but if my mom wants to share the password to hers so I can watch oh, I dunno...THE WHOLE STAR WARS OR MARVEL ARCHIVE...then yes. I would watch.
I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person
Okay but there is some extremely funny environmental storytelling of this being originally posted by someone who’s marked red in shinigami eyes. Like hmm I wonder why this person is noting a trend of people going ‘oi this person’s a shit.’ Oh wait, because they’re very obviously a shit to a good chunk of the userbase because it’s very obvious when someone’s otherwise unremarkable username is in a bright red box.
why do so many people treat this goofy website like a war zone. I'm not running for office, you didn't have to reblog this lol
Laura Ingall’s original memoir Pioneer Girl has so many unintentionally funny moments that really should have been included in the Little House books.
Like, she’s invited to a party when she’s fifteen or sixteen and they spend the whole time giving each other electric shocks because the house the party is in has a telephone. Like that’s it, that’s what counts as party entertainment in De Smet.
It’s a comfort to know that sixteen year olds have always been absolute idiots.
love it when u fight w someone and they compliment you on something lowkey. just kiss me
And in these next 50 years you will eat so many delicious meals, laugh so many times with so many people you love, shout and scream and sing and cry and smile so hard your face hurts. And you will see such beautiful sunsets and feel fresh cold air on your face and feel warm and safe wrapped up in your favourite winter coat.
