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i feel like i am watching a magical girl transformation

im still pissed off that birds get to spend their days flying about and cats get to sleep for 16 hours a day and im stuck dealing with capitalism and expectations

I am a survivor of the anti choice movement. By this, what I mean is, my mother was given no choice. She got pregnant with me at the ripe old age of fourteen. And she was told, verbatim, ‘you made your bed, now lie in it.’

Did anyone consider what sort of life they were setting her up for? Not for a second. Did anyone wonder what sort of childhood a kid born to a fourteen year old child might have? Nope.

No one cared about her. No one cared about the child they were forcing her to bring into the world. All that mattered was that she be forced to ‘pay for her mistakes.’

And that she did. And so did I. I was the mistake and I had to pay for it as well.

A little girl who needed help for the rape she had been enduring since she was nine years old, a little girl who thought sex was how you show love, a little girl who had no understanding of birth control or her own body past the fact that it could be sexually pleasing to a man, a girl who didn’t know that ‘no’ was an option was forced to birth and ‘raise’ a child.

She was abusive. She was and is an alcoholic. She suffered immensely and so did I (that precious unborn child - except I was born and thus no longer precious or important). My childhood sucked. My siblings’ childhoods sucked. All because paying for her mistakes was more important than her having a choice for once in her life.

I don’t know what she might have chosen. Her feelings on that changes based on the day of the week and how many empty bottles are in the trash can. But she should have been able to choose.

I hate when abortion survivors’ opinions on abortion are treated as if they are so much more important than anyone else’s. If their stories count for so fucking much, then mine should too.

So here it is. I am the child of a woman who should have had a choice.

You want to be a voice for the unborn? How about you shut the fuck up and listen to the people who actually have voices rather than just assuming you know what’s best? Don’t stifle real voices with imaginary ones.

Thank you so much for sharing this.

I was also born because my mother wasn’t given a choice and until I was 19 and I was pregnant with my daughter, not a week went by that I didn’t seriously consider taking my own life because of everything. I was 9 the first time I remember wondering if you could drown yourself in the bath. If it wasn’t for my baby sister, who loved me more than anything in the world and would have been devastated if I had killed myself, I would have. The anti choicers don’t care about people like us. They’ll cry “at least you had a chance to live” with no regards to the fact that we are the lucky ones who survived. So many others did not.

My mom wanted to abort me, but because she was a Christian, she thought it was wrong. She told me the circumstances at the time a few years ago, and she DEFINITELY should have aborted me. She was shamed and brainwashed into doing something that was extremely detrimental to her, both then and now. As a survivor and victim of anti-choice, listen to me. My vote counts.

#itsherbody

Reblogging for the contributions so far.

I hate anti-choicers so much

These are really important stories

My answer was:  Of course I love this child - that’s why I don’t want it to be born only to suffer.

My mom thought about having an abortion when she was pregnant with me, but for a variety of reasons ended up not having one (including religious pressure thanks to living in Alabama at the time).

As a result, she ended up staying with an abusive husband until I was five or six. Her life was utter shit.

When she finally left him, her life was better in that aspect but there were days when she had to feed me and couldn’t feed herself. As an immigrant there wasn’t a lot of opportunity for her.

If there was no stigma related to abortion, she could have gone home to Germany, reunited with her family, and led a happier life. But now she’s stuck.

These voices are important

These steps in San Francisco glow in the dark.

Watch: Samantha Bee takes on untested rape kits and the cops and politicians who want to destroy them.

If a girl feels uncomfortable hanging out with you alone, and you get so offended by that, it makes you angry, she probably made the right choice.

I know I’ve reblogged this recently but still so spot the fuck on.

“i will be famous so bring pen and paper and find me to receive my sign in advance”

confidence level: doyoung

Cr. @hypersnctvity on Twitter

Can we appreciate John Smith here for a second? He’s so into it.

when yr paranoia is rlly vague so its just like

when you wanna talk but you have nothing to say