Another joint project between @Ali_Davis and myself: a reminder what is at stake this November.
As someone who has friends and family directly affected by the ability to choose what happens to their body, volunteered at Planned Parenthood and watched first hand the tactics used by anti-choicers to deny women their basic rights to proper medical care, the current attempts to overturn and push back women's rights in the United States frightens and angers me.
Ali, a brilliant comedian and commentator, approached me to help make a simple design to remind and rally those who want to champion women's health and body rights. After our success with the transvaginal probe branding (Nothing, I mean, nothing sounds weirder than your name said on national television), I jumped on the chance.
There are two versions, both open for use under the creative commons license, on Tumblr:
The current Republican nominee for president has said he supports life beginning at conception, and has picked a running mate that has supported banning all abortion, even in cases of rape/medically dangerous.
This is on top of a wave of right wing legislation supporting denying women access to affordable medical care, and stripping them of equal rights and pay. It's a danger zone out here.
Erm. How can someone be allowed to try for such a role when they believe such horseshit? I know people should be allowed to believe what they want, but its like these guys don't understand that women like to chose what happens to them. Its medieval.
But but but THIS IS POLITICS. Not religion. Politics is about people. Religion is about faith. They're different. How can he be allowed to combine them and get away with it?
This argument is stupid because abortion is legal according to the supreme court. Thus, no changes on it can be made. People may have their views but they cannot in any way ban abortion as the highest court has deemed it legal...
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This is on top of a wave of right wing legislation supporting denying women access to affordable medical care, and stripping them of equal rights and pay. It's a danger zone out here.