Tuskegee Study v 2.0
Passing laws that restrict access to abortion EQUALS withholding necessary healthcare from people, the same as withholding penicillin from people with syphilis.
Leah Torres
Not My Fourth
In these 250 years we should have learned a thing or two about protecting freedom and not revoking it, removing shackles of oppression and not locking them into place, and working toward a society that values all human lives instead of one that protects criminals with large bank accounts.
Unconscionable Practice
I have seen providers use their own religious beliefs to refuse placing an IUD for someone, or providing contraception generally, resulting in patients being subjected to forced pregnancy. Guess what? Their patients become my patients seeking abortion care.
Reject the Premise
What is the premise? The premise is that my body is someone else’s property. The premise is that the State has a right to my pregnancy, and therefore decision-making power that usurps my own.
My Body > Your Guns
Abortion is very much a self-defense issue. It is healthcare that treats a life-threatening condition that is not wanted.
Mifepristone is Safe
The American people deserve leaders who can interpret new information in order to make informed decisions, especially when it comes to a life-saving medication such as mifepristone.
abortion
Fetuses aren't People
This bears repeating: the pregnancy cannot exist without me, my body, my existence. The fetus needs my heart to beat to deliver the oxygenated blood that my lungs inhaled to my uterus and then to the placenta so that the pregnancy, too, may use oxygen for its physiologic processes.
autonomy
Autonomy is Freedom
History shows clearly that the states most insistent on enforcing the Jim Crow era of oppression were the same states that fought a war to protect their “right” to own other people and are presently the same states asserting their ownership of pregnant people.
abortion
Abortion is Healthcare
One hundred percent of abortions are medically-indicated because someone is pregnant and does not want to be pregnant. They do not want to incur the very real risks to health and life that pregnancy and/or giving birth carry.