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scowly brow spinsterStassa Edwards
1/23/16 1:09pm
I appreciate that there is a typical, “wrong time, wrong circumstances” abortion story included here. While dramatic partner abuse or fetal abnormality stories are valid, they are often the only types of stories offered in support of abortion. The vast majority of abortions are for women who are accidentally pregnant and don’t want to be, and so choose to terminate the pregnancy.

People who say “abortion is not birth control” are wrong. Abortion absolutely is birth control. Abortion is not contraception, which most women would surely prefer. In absence of contraception, abortion controls birth.

And the decision to abort is a right that does not need to be justified to anyone but the woman herself. Full stop.
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  scowly brow spinsterscowly brow spinster
  1/23/16 1:28pm
  Forgot to add at the end of the first paragraph that it is dangerous to paint ourselves into the corner of abortion being exclusively for the short list of “rape and incest survivors, women whose lives are in peril.” Every woman deserves to make her own decision based on all her life circumstances, without interference from god bags or the state.
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  Sqarrscowly brow spinster
  1/23/16 1:37pm
  Yes.
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weebleswobbleStassa Edwards
1/23/16 1:00pm
This one, about a woman who went into preterm labor at 15 weeks and was denied an abortion, is incredibly powerful and well done. It’s a side of the abortion debate that not a lot of people think about

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  NamiChatiweebleswobble
  1/23/16 1:08pm
  Oh fuck. Thank you for posting that. That really isn’t something people really talk about in abortion debates. What a horrific experience to have had!
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  Sqarrweebleswobble
  1/23/16 1:09pm
  Devastating.
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Socks Are My Favorite ClothesStassa Edwards
1/23/16 12:16pm
As if Elizabeth Banks weren’t already one of my favorite people in the world. This is great!
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  LizSocks Are My Favorite Clothes
  1/23/16 12:59pm
  I saw her video on Facebook, and made the mistake of reading the comments. Not only did people think that it was -her- personal story (reading is hard, y’all), but those who did usually also berated her for being “selfish” for thinking she’s more important than the fetus of the abusive boyfriend. It was a tidal wave of ignorant, typo-riddled forced-birthers and MRA assholes telling her to “leave her whore legs closed.”
  
  I love Elizabeth Banks. She is a goddamn treasure. A TREASURE!
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  Socks Are My Favorite ClothesLiz
  1/23/16 1:10pm
  I wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’m not. I’m reading the comments on FB like this.
  
  GIF
  
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SqarrStassa Edwards
1/23/16 12:04pm
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Pardon?

This is so, so important.
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  Stassa EdwardsSqarr
  1/23/16 12:09pm
  Very important. Very fixed.
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  SqarrStassa Edwards
  1/23/16 12:11pm
  Derp. I didn’t mean the typo was important. Derp-derp.
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The Noble RenardStassa Edwards
1/23/16 12:06pm
Retta! The best. She is just so amazing.

So glad to see a project like this.
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  cannolicanoe1The Noble Renard
  1/23/16 12:23pm
  I absolutely adore Retta. Want to see her more places.
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  CicsThe Noble Renard
  1/23/16 12:47pm
  I want Retta to be my aunt, I feel like she would just make the best aunt ever
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Glaux GirlStassa Edwards
1/23/16 12:45pm
I'm not the only one who's moved to the point of tears by these, right?
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  SqarrGlaux Girl
  1/23/16 1:10pm
  No. Not at all.
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  Ruffian9Glaux Girl
  1/23/16 1:59pm
  Nope
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OvariesOfDiamondStassa Edwards
1/23/16 12:19pm
I love this! My love for Elizabeth Banks just grew and I love the other ladies narrating the stories of the women who got abortions. The first story is telling. The friend cared enough for Rebecca. The pro lifers essentially say that babies are the most important thing and women aren’t important at all. It’s not about the babies. It’s about controlling women.
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  TampaBeeAtch (misplaced witty subname)OvariesOfDiamond
  1/23/16 5:17pm
  Not only that, once the babies are born, these are the exact same people that scream about ‘Welfare Queens!!!” and slackers taking their tax dollars.
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  PersnicketyPantsOvariesOfDiamond
  1/23/16 10:28pm
  It’s not about the babies. It’s about controlling women.
  
  Bingo. Scratch beneath the surface of most “pro forced birthers” and it comes down to they anger at the idea of women having sex with whomever they please without “suffering the consequences”.
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sybannStassa Edwards
1/23/16 3:00pm
These made me cry - but anti-choicers are not likely to be swayed by any real woman’s story. They’re too fixated on the fictional being in the sky who throws thunderbolts at dirty, dirty, sex-having sluts. You don’t appeal to ignorance, prudery and superstition with reason. I wish you could.
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  SiriOnFiresybann
  1/24/16 5:45am
  But i bet some people who aren’t sure can be persuaded. Or children of pro-lifers that are starting to think for themselves.
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  sybannSiriOnFire
  1/24/16 10:03am
  We can only hope.
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TampaBeeAtch (misplaced witty subname)Stassa Edwards
1/23/16 5:25pm
I really, sincerely hope, that like “The Vagina Monologues” this becomes a grassroots movement that is performed across the country and helps ‘normalize’ abortion discussion like ‘TVM’ helped normalize women discussing their own bodies and experiences. I did a performance of TVM and it was transforming! The diversity of women and even men in the audience. Their initial reaction to the stories and performances, watching them become visibly more relaxed throughout the performance (it is best done not on a stage with lights, but in an open format where the performers and audience can all see each other) was fabulous. I had so many different women come up to me after the performance to thank me. My favorite was when I was outside having a cigarette before leaving and a group of 70-80 year old women came up to me, thanked me, joked about how freeing it was, talked about their struggle in the feminist movement in the 70s and 80s. I would love to see this open up that kind of camaraderie and dialogue in small community settings.
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cannolicanoe1Stassa Edwards
1/23/16 12:17pm
This is fantastic, and so, so important.
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  germankiwigalcannolicanoe1
  1/23/16 1:02pm
  I was just about to write the exact same thing!
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