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Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook

Resources for people seeking access to healthcare

• Amnesty.org - Basic facts about Abortion

• Gynopedia - a nonprofit organization that runs an open resource wiki for sexual, reproductive, and women's health care around the world

• Guttmacher Institute - a primary source for research and policy analysis on abortion in the United States.

• National Abortion Federation - The mission of the National Abortion Federation is to unite, represent, serve, and support abortion providers in delivering patient-centered, evidence-based care.

• National Network of Abortion Funds - connects you with organizations that can support your financial and logistical needs as you arrange for your abortion.

• Planned Parenthood - A Comprehensive Guide for Unplanned Pregnancy

• RAINN - National Sexual Assult Hotline

• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice - a network of ministers and rabbis that refer women to abortion providers they had researched and found to be safe

• Texas Equal Access Fund - provides emotional and financial support to people who are seeking abortion care.

• Women’s Reproductive Rights Assitance Project - helps bridge the financial gap for women who seek an abortion or emergency contraceptives.

If you need help getting an abortion go to these sites

• AbortionFinder - With more than 750 health centers, AbortionFinder.org features the most comprehensive directory of trusted (and verified) abortion service providers in the United States.

• Afiya Center - their mission is to transform the lives, health, and overall wellbeing of Black women and girls by providing refuge, education, and resources. They act to ignite the communal voices of Black women resulting in our full achievement of reproductive freedom.

• AidAccess - consists of a team of doctors, activists, and advocates for abortion rights that help people access abortion or miscarriage treatment. They send the pill worldwide for $110/90€

• Bridge Collective - provides practical and responsive abortion services to Central Texas

• Buckle Bunnies Fund - provide practical support for people seeking abortions. Help with transportation, funds to help with hotels, lodging costs and emergency contraceptive funds to actually go towards abortion.

• Carafem - helps with abortion, birth control, and questions about reproductive healthcare. They do consultations online and send abortion pills in the mail.

• Cobalt Abortion Fund - provides direct financial assistance to individuals seeking abortion care. Our mission is to work toward reproductive freedom for all people and to provide financial assistance without judgment or question to people who seek an abortion but are unable to pay the full cost.

• Colorado Abortion Providers

• Faith Aloud - compassionate religious and spiritual support for abortion and pregnancy options

• Frontera Fund - makes abortion accessible in the Rio Grande Valley (Texas) by providing financial and practical support regardless of immigration status, gender identity, ability, sexual orientation, race, class, age, or religious affiliation and to build grassroots organizing power at intersecting issues across our region to shift the culture of shame and stigma.

• HeyJane - Modern abortion care, without the clinic, Get fast, safe, and affordable abortion care from home. Chat with a medical provider within 36 hours. Medications are shipped daily.

• International Consortium on Emergency Contraception - Emergency Oral Contraceptive Doses for Birth Control, U.S.

• Jane’s Due Process - helps minors in Texas with judicial bypass for abortion, navigate parental consent laws and confidentially access abortion and birth control. They provide free legal support, 1-on-1 case management, and stigma-free information on sexual and reproductive health.

• Justice Empowerment Network - focuses on abortion access in South Dakota

• Kentucky Health Justice Network - helps w both abortion care and gender affirming care in Kentucky

• Lillith Fund - the oldest abortion fund in Texas, serving the central and southern regions of the state with direct financial assistance for abortions.

• Northwest Abortion Access Fund - provides funds to help folks in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska

• Plan C Pills - provides up-to-date information on how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pills online

• Planned Parenthood

• Westfund - focuses on Latino and low-income communities

• Women on Web - an online abortion service can help you do a safe abortion with pills.

These sites offer access to abortion pills, even in Texas. Please be safe and be aware of clinics (e.g. Crisis Pregnancy Centers) that give out dangerous misinformation on abortions and pregnancy.

Also, check out r/auntienetwork, r/prochoice or r/abortion for support

Weird. It's almost as if Republicans don't believe women are people.

I’m Australian, and am willing to mail Plan B/birth control to anyone who no longer has access to it.

European doctor defies FDA orders to stop sending US women abortion pills by mail

ABORTION IS IMMORAL, EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO MY MISTRESSES

I'm sorry you regret your abortion.

Proof that 'life' was never what this was about...

Cartoon: The ladies will just love Georgia's new anti-abortion law

Place your left hand on the Bible and raise your right hand, sir.

I've said this before but I think it's even more appropriate now. If male Congress members think it's okay to regulate women's bodies, they must agree to be regulated themselves. They need to answer these questions under oath before running for office:

1) Have you ever had sex out of marriage?

2) Have any women with whom you were involved use birth control? What type? How long? Did you use the missionary position? What other positions?

3) Have any women with whom you were involved need to have an abortion?

4) How often do you masturbate?

5) Explain the different parts of a woman's body involving her uterus, menstruation, ovaries, and how they function.

6) Explain whether you believe women are only hosts to the fetus or are they individual entities with the ability to choose what they will do with their bodies.

7) Are women equal to men? Explain.

It's not about babies. It's about control.

Self-Managed Abortion Care Becomes Urgent as Threats to Roe v. Wade Mount

Truthout has the article.

Because they said no.

Sounds silly, right?  Well...

Sunday funnies

A young Dutch man may be the one to clean up our oceans.

Neoliberalism is at the root of our problems today:

After Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took power, the rest of the package soon followed: massive tax cuts for the rich, the crushing of trade unions, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services. Through the IMF, the World Bank, the Maastricht treaty and the World Trade Organisation, neoliberal policies were imposed – often without democratic consent – on much of the world. Most remarkable was its adoption among parties that once belonged to the left: Labour and the Democrats, for example. As Stedman Jones notes, “it is hard to think of another utopia to have been as fully realised.”

To the old men’s fusty opinions about uteri:  shut up.

Twelve months of Donald Trump by Tom Tomorrow.

Tom Brokaw's take down of Donald Trump is making the rounds again.

Letter from a very tired Christian.

Decide to save humanity.

Mischievous writer takes on rumpus at a motel.

Russian mother, baby, officers, and bears.

Abortion has been around for centuries

Ancient Romans, Renaissance women, modern day advocates and then....

Then, the politician and "morality" advocate Anthony Comstock began his crusade against birth control, sex workers and eventually abortion. In 1873, the "Comstock Law" outlawed contraception and abortion with limited exceptions for health. With the passage of this law, women lost what had been their common law right.  

"Anthony Comstock was the main anti-choice person who, in the late 1800s, starting burning books and made it illegal for anything to be sent through the mail having to do with sexuality," Ault said. "He later jailed Margaret Sanger [for defying the contraception prohibition] and was on her case until he died." 

By the late 1920s, some 15,000 women a year died from abortions because safe, legal procedures were nearly impossible for most to obtain. According to 4000 Years for Choice, dangerous self-induction methods included using knitting needles, crochet hooks, hairpins, scissors and buttonhooks. With the death toll rising, physicians in the 1930s began providing abortion care through underground clinics and in subsequent decades individuals and doctors banded together to work around and protest the prohibition.

Norway saves the planet and other stuff

Thank you, Norway!  Helping keep the Brazilian rain forests alive.

Kate Beaton.

Joe Hill, who should never be erased from history.



Library books that people try to censor most.

Myth Surrounding Alleged Iranian Nuclear Facility Begins to Unravel

Bill Nye and women's reproduction.

When and Where to See the Super-Rare Supermoon Lunar Eclipse

The evils of microbeads.

Gadgets, Gaza, and Good Grief, Oklahoma!

Masai rebel woman fighting for women's rights.

How bad it actually is in Gaza.

Gadgets that are listening to you, a little too well.

It's snowing on the east coast.  That's that white stuff you see in the pictures.  And an explanation on why it is so cold.

Women's reproductive rights the worst it has ever been since Roe v Wade.

Robert Reich: This Very Bad Deal Will Make Wall Street Richer and Bust the Rest of America The truth about the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Oklahoma decides it doesn't like history unless it lies.

What religious fanaticism will do to women's rights if carried to the logical end.  And Men's Rights activist isn't any better.  And what 50 shades of crap does to relationships. Update:  and more.

Jeb Bush is using the same people that Georgie did for foreign policy.  Remember, Jeb was an original signer of the PNAC.  I'd like to see him explain that away.

A star hit and run with our solar system 70,000 years ago.

Our presidents.

Morse code and Macbeth

Morse code

So now that we've poisoned enough people, we can finally admit that oil dispersants are bad for us?

What young people need to know about porn.

The 1% are becoming aware the peasants are getting restless.

Women's right to choose.

The water wars of the near future.

Ian McKellen does Macbeth's soliloquy .

Abortion

Treat abortion like any other medically comparable procedure.

Update: What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Abortion

Meh? Really?

To the Supreme Court apparently yes.

Imagine the hysteria if Hobby Lobby were run by religious Muslims....

Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court but there may be a silver lining....

Is your state trying to force you to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term?

Plan B available on Amazon.

The War Against Women Continues

Every day.

Why is virginity so important?

Myths that some conservatives still believe about women.

Santorum thinks his religious beliefs trump women's rights.

But sometimes women fight back:  revenge against a revenge porn instigator.

The post-Roe world

Amanda Marcotte:

They don’t really want you to never have your abortion, but they think you need to work harder for it. To quote Dr. Minto, “Women are forced to crawl around like goddamn criminals,” and that’s roughly what many people think they should have to do in order to get an abortion. The idea that it’s a major hassle but that you get to have one anyway is the point—a sort of state-mandated penance and shaming period for you. This is the reality of how things play out. We know this because of how many anti-choice policies amount to telling women to work harder and endure more shaming: Ultrasounds, waiting periods, etc. And we know this because this is the logic underpinning clinic protest. They pretend it’s to talk women out of it, but it’s mostly to make sure women can’t go in without assholes trying to shame them first.

Becoming a survivor rather than a victim.

Where the right-to-lifers want us all to live

On Wednesday, National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) announced a lawsuit has been filed in federal court seeking the immediate release from state custody of a pregnant Wisconsin woman who was involuntarily detained at a drug treatment facility despite no evidence she was using drugs while pregnant. 

Alicia Beltran, a 28-year-old pregnant woman confided in health-care workers about her prior use of painkillers and her efforts to end that use on her own during an early prenatal care visit. On July 18, Wisconsin law enforcement officials arrested her under a 1997 Wisconsin law, which gives the state the power to forcibly detain any pregnant woman who “habitually lacks self-control” and poses a “substantial risk” to the health of an egg, embryo, or fetus. 

[snip] 

NAPW notes in its announcement of the lawsuit that Beltran “was forcibly taken into custody by law enforcement when she was 15 weeks pregnant, put into handcuffs and shackles, and brought to a court hearing. Although a lawyer had already been appointed to represent her fetus, Ms. Beltran had no right to counsel—and therefore had no attorney—at the initial court appearance. Then, without testimony from a single medical expert, the court ordered her to be detained at an inpatient drug treatment program two hours from her home.”

Attorney Linda Vanden Heuvel, who represents Beltran, explained in a statement that “[l]ocking up Ms. Beltran, under the Wisconsin law, does not serve the best interests of Ms. Beltran’s future child and most certainly tramples the rights of Ms. Beltran, a woman who was not in fact using any controlled substances at the time of her arrest and who is committed to having a healthy pregnancy.”

Women of the Net

Celebrating your geekness.

Fighting misogynistic trolls who hate women.

Refusing to break down and cry when in court.

Twitter is attempting to deal with online threats to women.

Who actually has power?

Plan B should be available now to everyone.

Because the wimmen folk are stupid and need help.

Wednesday weirdness, women and wimps

Poor Florida. Giant African Snails are invading. We need to find out if they're edible...

A hedge fund CEO who supports privatization of public schools wants to "help" with the teachers' pension funds...

Overuse of fertilizer is killing us... on the other hand, it allows us to feed our ever burgeoning population.

Anyone remember bash.org?  Best hits.

Women should know their bodies belong to them.

Ramping Up Renewables: Energy You Can Count On

Gabby Giffords speaks out about the senators who "filibustered the bipartisan gun background-check proposal".

The Republican War on Women continues...

Kansas Senate Prepares To Kill Reproductive Rights, Republicans Mock Rape Victims while France... France Makes Contraception and Abortion Free

Update 4/5: But amazingly there is a federal judge:

Judge Orders Morning-After Pill Available for All Ages 

A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger. In his ruling, he also accused the federal government of “bad faith” in dealing with the requests to make the pill universally available, and said its actions had been politically motivated.