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Protesters outside of Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields Festival with some um...interesting signs
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Why do they always try and create the narrative that all Planned Parenthood does is abortions? It’s so insulting and hurts people in an era when healthcare is ridiculously expensive.
Same. It was a doctor at planned parenthood who finally listened to me about my symptoms and diagnosed me with pcos which led to me finally getting treatment that worked and improved my life after years of medical neglect and gaslighting by my primary care physicians.
Exactly! I had ovarian cancer at 15 and luckily was in remission by college but Planned Parenthood was an accessible and affordable option for me to stay on top of my OBGYN visits.
I had recurring, painful BV and UTIs from my abusive ex-boyfriend, and the number of times I fantasized about waxing poetically to the anti-choice protesters outside about my horrific discharge and asking them to pay for my antibiotics “since they cared so much”……
Between that and my ectopic, PP saved my life and I will donate to them over anything any fucking day of the week.
Right! I hear this brought up all the the time like its gonna be a gotcha for liberals/leftist but like... did they ever think of why minority women have more abortions? Have they considered how they could help minority women so more of them could keep pregnancies if they want to? Nah, that's too complex and nuanced. Better just ban it instead.
My FIL attributes issues with POC as their choice rather than often the circumstances of being oppressed by white people for thousands of years. He very much thinks “have they considered just not being poor” I’d imagine the people holding these signs have similar thought processes.
Right, like it isn't the minority women who are making the decisions here. It's framed like some white guys are out there forcing POC women to have abortions.
More like why are marginalized people gettting them. If I was 3x more likely to die having a baby it would impact my decision to stay pregnant. Not mention the systemic issues that have lead to disparities for earning potential despite being more educated. Add in environmental racism to that and you can see some the reasons why abortions in minority groups are more prevalent.
Why do people gloss over the dangers of pregnancy? Like at all. Period. For any group - but especially for POC.
I've had one (very wanted and tried for) baby who, if I had not been in a hospital environment would have killed me on the way out. Zero complications. And no interventions prior to the "oh shit" moment during 3 hours of pushing when my blood pressure was tanking and baby's heart rate was dropping. We could see his head, but his neck was twisted in a way that he couldn't get out.
That's when the midwife tapped out and I was introduced to an ob who told me I'd be going across the hall for a c-section immediately & they'd be putting me under on the way (no time to place an epidural.)
My baby was born blue, but thankfully recovered faster than I did. Lots of hemorrhaging for me & another hour or so of surgery before I got to wake up. I had burst blood vessels across my face and in my eyes from how hard I had been straining.
And I'll point out: I am white. I am financially secure. I am fit. I had regular prenatal visits. My husband and I took birthing classes & listened to podcasts & had a team we trusted. I had no pregnancy complications (beyond severe morning sickness). My risk factors for a C-section were low. It was not even on my radar until about 5 minutes before it was happening. If I had chosen a birth center or home birth, baby definitely would have been hurt or dead & I could have died.
Childbirth is one of the most dangerous things women regularly do. And that's not even considering preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, cholestasis, and higher rates of certain cancers that come as complications to pregnancy.
And how about the less deadly, but still considerable impacts to a woman's body from bringing a baby to term? Stretch marks, changes to breasts, tears/episiotomies, scars/scar tissue from C-sections, damage to pelvic floor, damage to core muscles... Things both cosmetic, but also functionally important for people who prefer to not pee a bit when they sneeze or risk hernias when bending over to tie a shoe. Oh and the hormones and how they impact weight.
Edit to add: I have chronic pain in one of my feet because of the way pregnancy loosened the tendons & now I regularly reinjure one specific joint from simply walking barefoot from my bed to my bathroom in the middle of the night. I will forever need constant arch support and physical therapy.
Imagine for even a second that a man would take on even half of these changes/risks every time he had sex. You think we'd still be talking about whether abortion should be legal? Why is it chill for women to take this on for the benefit of a child they may not want?
They care soooo much about minorities before they’re born, then as soon as they pop out the womb, they start complaining about DEI, supporting ICE, saying “all lives matter” etc etc
It’s ridiculous- what this ‘fact’ (or framing of facts) doesn’t take into consideration is just because you have an abortion, it doesn’t mean you never have kids.
Say the average person wants two kids in their life, they have an abortion at 21 and wait an have two kids at 31 and 33, the generation is no bigger or smaller than it would have without the abortion. If someone wants to have two kids, they’ll have two kids. Abortion simply allows that to happen at a time when the parents are in the best position to care for it.
I’ve had this convo 10 too many times with the ‘pro lifers’ who lean on this.
I was born in 98 and by the time I started elementary and finished, class sizes were increasing from 25 student being the max to 30. Graduating classes size also steadily increased each year until I graduated and I’m assuming it’s continued to grow
I guess maybe this could just point to a population growth in the area I grew up in and not necessarily the generation as a whole
70% of all furniture related crimes are committed by JD Vance. There's not a lot of furniture related crimes, but there's a big one that he won't deny, so I would say he definitely did it.
Even if it was, you'd be including abortions for missed miscarriages, which are a solid percentage of miscarriages (some might come out eventually on their own, but the risk is pretty high so most abort). This is a HUGE number per year, like 3-8% of all pregnancies.
They're likely going to quote figures that include all forms of pregnancy termination. IE: spontaneous abortion (missed miscarriage), terminations of non-viable pregnancies (ancephaly, ectopic pregnancy, Tay-Sachs disease), stillbirth. Honestly, like 1 in 5 first time pregnancies results in a missed miscarriage and many don't even know. It happens a lot. What's even more infuriating is mifpristone is not only used in elective termination, but also in helping pass a missed miscarriage. Many someone are able to expel the failed embryo on their own, but some can't. What's more, the longer it takes to occur, the more risk for complications (sepsis, hemorrhage, etc.). This also reduces the likelihood of requiring debridement and curettage, and while it's in most cases a low risk mildly invasive procedure, it's still worse than the alternative. This is the shit Republicans don't seem to know, or even be willing to discuss.
oh, you haven’t heard? all of their arbitrary rules aren’t for them, silly! they just foist them upon others. the rules would be far too limiting and imposing for themselves. 🤪
Imagine them saying they're pro-life bc they support women, then call a woman a "bitch", a word that has been significantly used to demonise women. These people make no sense😭😭
But they never want to bring awareness to the babies who are in foster care and who live in poverty and don’t have access to basic necessities and school. Js
Because those children have wants and opinions. Unborn babies don't have opinions. Makes advocating easy when the group your advocating for has no demands or requests
I was a bit confused at the message in that one. Is she saying that minority women should be forced into labour they otherwise would have opted out of? Like, that isn't the supportive message she thinks it is.
It's an attempt at a gotcha. "Oh, you're liberal? You like minorities or something right? Gotcha, they're being aborted too!" Completely ignoring why minority women are more likely to get abortions (less economic opportunities, less housing stability, worse birth and postnatal outcomes, etc).
It’s funny that they bring up female empowerment too. Because to be Pro-Life is to inherently be Pro-Choice. Like these ladies don’t realize that the right to choose is also the right to choose to have a baby.
My mom needed an abortion on a wanted pregnancy in the second trimester. Without it she would have died. She was still against abortion for years though; conservative logic I guess. She didn't view what happened to her as abortion, but as a miscarriage, because the fetus was already non-viable. She just viewed it as a miscarriage that needed assistance, which is what it was, but that assistance was an abortion.
She's come around now though and is even a registered Democrat. It just took some time. I think seeing all the craziness from the first Trump administration really opened her eyes to reality.
Over the years I have talked my very Catholic mom out of being rigorously pro-life. Now she's more like Clinton: safe, legal, and rare - and rare because we make birth control easier to access and support moms-to-be, and babies and children.
My mom is sort of pro-life, in that she would prefer the babies to live, because she just likes babies a lot. But i think she is pro-choice too since she respects people's choices. That probably sounds confusing.
Not at all. My mom is pro-life in the same way - she thinks no one should have an abortion. But she understands (now) that there are circumstances that make it a better option for the woman than carrying to term/giving birth/adoption/whatever.
Thanks for understanding. My mom is the sweetest person i know, and i don't think she thinks this stuff in a malicious or controlling way. I'm not really sure she knows much on the topic.
I was initially not going to post my prior comment because i was worried people would say something negative about my mom.
I'm not here to judge. People are complicated with complicated motivations. And unfortunately our current political climate seems to be trying to distill every issue down to black/white, good/bad, right/wrong, etc. The world isn't that simple.
I honestly don't care if YOU would never have an abortion or if YOU think abortion is wrong. Just don't impede other people from doing what THEY think is right for themselves.
In Ireland, a woman called Savita Halappanava was in a similar situation, completely wanted pregnancy but was miscarrying. She was denied an abortion and later died of sepsis. Her death caused massive outcry here and completely changed opinions on abortion, and now it’s legal here.
One of my great grandmothers tried to self-induce an abortion in the 1920’s and died. It was her 15th pregnancy and would have been her 13th living child.
The only anti-life aspect of her entire reproductive lifespan was her death.
I quote this story all the time - it’s especially sad since the abortion ban is due to Catholicism and this poor woman was Hindu. Her husband tried to argue this and no one cared, imagine losing both your wife and child due to a law based around a religion that isn’t even yours. It’s probably the most argument-proof pro-abortion case in existence.
You’re lucky your mom has come around. My mom is hard core pro life. She once told me that she’d be against an abortion if it was between my life and the fetus. Because of this my husband and I kept her out of the delivery room when we had our son. I love my mom but I’m pro choice all the way.
I don’t think they have the plasticity for that kind of abstract thought - they just think cute mamas should have round tummies then adorable babies with their rugged manly godly husbands - it’s childlike imagination
It's gross how much they are borrowing from progressive causes in these anti-progressive signs. "Minority babies lives matter too!" Probably written on the back of a sign that says "All Lives Matter" from their previous protest.
It's just more proof how disingenuous and loose their morals are.
Another giveaway to their true politics is the last sign that says something about how Olivia is losing her future fanbase... basically pleading "Don't you understand Olivia, that this will affect the MONEY? The most important thing??"
In Canada right now, there appears to be a more organized campaign of protestors like this. They stand at high traffic street corners with very graphic images of aborted fetuses. I live in Saskatoon and we always had a few religious types standing by hospitals with their signage but whatever is happening now seems to be more organized, has increased participants, and more funding behind it.
It’s all so performative. They don’t actually care about mothers and babies. They “care” until the birth and then they ghost - no follow through about what happens afterwards.
Weird how they aren't protesting for the need for Healthcare, food access, better education, and affordable childcare access for the kids who are already out there.
Well they gotta indoctrinate them young or else they may get wise & leave the cult.
I also wonder how many of them voted against things like any program for single moms, young families, the unhoused families, etc.?
Because you know they all voted for (R)s right down the ballot & we all know they're only interested in the unborn fetuses. Once they're born they don't really give a shit about them.
I got a cancer screening from PP, so yeah, they’re just some ignorant bitches that hopefully will never have to use the very necessary services PP provides, or supports.
The galling part to me is that every single one of these women would have an abortion if medically necessary. They would also pitch a fit if they needed an abortion and couldn’t have one due to their state’s laws.
I got pregnant during my master’s degree by a guy I didn’t know very well. (We met through a shared sport.) I was on the pill but no doctor told me that it would be ineffective due to my autoimmune disorder so PSA for the girlies there 🙃.
Anyway this guy begged me to get an abortion, though I was on the fence.
Turned out he was a Trump supporter and not so long after I had the abortion he begged me for, he was celebrating the downfall of Roe v Wade on social media.
TLDR: these people will always think they’re unique and if they need abortions, it’s actually ethical because they’re such a special flower.
ETA: I often share this in relation to my experience because it pretty much sums it up.
Not at all. I would never have known about his views except that my best friend (who let me move in with her and literally cradled me in her bed as I bled, watched a LOTR marathon with me, and ultimately got me to hospital when RPOC turned to sepsis) sent me his insta stories like “this fucking guy”.
Here's the great thing about abortions, if you don't want one, you don't have to get one. No one is forcing anyone to have an abortion. This whole debate is always so stupid because they're acting as if abortions are being forced on people. No they're given the option and they choose to take it for whatever reason, and that is for them to deal with as needed with their doctor(s) and family.
Yup yup. Some even said women will use abortion casually, I just can’t…when a woman decides to have an abortion, she has to go through so much physically and mentally, usually it’s the best and last choice for her.
I think we can all agree the world would be a better place with 33% more people. Compelling argument, folks!
Edit: actually it would be 50% more people, if the ones alive today are 2/3 of the total number we’re supposed to have. I never claimed to be good at math.
If we stopped funneling so much federal money into abortion, we could provide food, education, and healthcare for everyone.
Wait, what’s that? Less than $1 billion per year goes to Planned Parenthood, all of it indirectly, and virtually none of it for abortions? And that’s less than 1% of our annual defense budget?
It basically is. Like I put in my other comment, it only works if every abortion from 1997 to 2012 was prevented AND every person born between 1997 and 2012 still was born.
It’s some real butterfly effect shit. For instance, you prevent an abortion and the subsequent birth leads to the mother’s death — in our timeline, that mother has three children after her abortion. In the magical anti-abortion timeline, she dies, her other three children never exist, and the one person who was “missing” from our timeline gets to grow up without a mother. Obviously this is just one contrived hypothetical, but similar if/thens apply to every “prevented” abortion. You don’t restore the “missing” 1/3 of Gen Z; you end up with a completely different set of people.
yeah that was an interesting argument to me. like when you’re at a huge crowded festival surrounded by people your own age, how are you supposed to feel sad that there’s not more of them…? not the best way to reach people
Statistically, at least a few people at the festival have a parent who previously had an abortion. Those people would not exist if those abortions had never happened.
I looked it up and it’s some dubious math based on birth totals and abortion rates from 1997 to 2012. One key point it misses is: how many births only happened because of an earlier abortion (either because the person went on to start a family when they were ready, or because it was a life-saving procedure for a person who went on to have one or more babies).
It turns into a weird alternate reality conversation incredibly quickly. There’s no world in which 100% of those abortions didn’t happen and 100% of currently existing births also still happened.
Right?! Mine was because of a very wanted pregnancy that stopped developing, but my body wasn’t “passing”, so I didn’t go septic and DIE, but oooookaaaaaaaay.
But none of them give a fuck about the babies after they’re born and think babies in low income families deserve to starve and children should go without school lunch if they can’t afford it
They think the minorities abortion stat is a flex but it’s an indictment on our lack of maternal services, healthcare, and support once babies are born.
An abortion is never an easy choice. I commend anyone who has to go through that decision without support.
Abortion = women's healthcare and if you outlaw it you're just denying mothers healthcare when they need it most. See the increased maternal death rate in Texas since Roe was overturned, it's horrifying. Pregnant and dying because you can't get healthcare, possibly leaving your existing children motherless. Fucking hell
These people don't care about mothers or babies or families. They only care about control.
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This is why women need access to legal abortions.
If you can’t have a real conversation about racism & capitalism and how they affect all of our public sectors, then I really don’t want to talk about reproductive healthcare with you “pro-lifers”
These people holding up these pro-forced-birth signs genuinely look so evil to me. I'm trying so hard not to judge, but they support so much cruelty, suffering, and hate towards women and towards the exact same children/babies/fetuses whose wellbeing they pretend to care about.
They don't care what happens to these fetuses after they are born and once those unwanted babies grow up into unwanted children whose families can't get them healthcare or food due to cuts to Medicaid/food stamps, and they definitely don't care about what happens to unloved children who grow up alone into adulthood. The hypocrisy is just so upsetting. 😢 The people attending this festival really didn't deserve to be unexpectedly triggered by having to see these hateful signs from forced-birthers who support further traumatizing underage victims of rape & incest.
I try to get as many abortions in as possible but my schedule is already packed with turning children trans and doing surgery on them during recess, so it’s hard to have time for both. 😔
all of this energy could be going towards addressing the actual issues that lead many people so get abortions but then that would involve actually caring about vulnerable populations and not just making a cute and quirky sign about them
I’m glad they were peaceful but they were also stupid. This was a really cool festival Olivia put together and all the collaborators that I’ve paid attention to have done a great job. Really cool stuff and hopefully this inspires even more charity festivals.
If the argument was truly about the people who aren’t here because they weren’t born, then shouldn’t we all be having endless sex so we have as many children as possible? I could have kids, but choose not to, but by choosing not to I’m deliberately depriving my would-be offspring of a life. Every second you’re not having sex is murder!
Do they not realize that Planned Parenthood is a healthcare provider. They literally saved lives. There are Gen Z women who are alive today because of Planned Parenthood.
What happens when these women end up miscarrying and need medical intervention? What happens when they become pregnant after being raped? What if, what is what if?
Does having health insurance in the USA give people a morality complex?
womp womp waah waaahhhh if you want less abortions then we need to abolish the system of capitalism and fund full, comprehensive sex education and make all contraceptive devices and drugs free for everyone AND make sterilizing surgeries free and easy to access but none of these chucklefucks actually want less abortion they just want to waahhh waahhhhhh WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH with their kitschy silly signs and dumbass tiktoks while they 10000000000000% get abortions behind closed doors because Oh No You Don't Understand, Their Circumstances Are Different!!!!
3 of them will need an abortion in their lifetime.
And when that time come for their moral abortions, they will surely pretend they weren't smiling with these stupid signs.
Brainwashed pro-birth chicks. If they care so much about it, then they should go adopt every child in the adoption agency, as well as birth a whole colony themselves. Always talking about everybody else bodies but their own.
I’ll never understand the anti-planned parenthood stance from any angle. It is literally a wonderful organization that provides medical care to pregnant women and babies. It also does abortions, yes, but you’ve got to be kidding me, my planned parenthood OB found a lump in my breast, like they are saving lives, it’s medicine!! Just more evidence that they have no idea what they’re talking about I suppose. Sigh.
Do… do they think that people just get abortions recreationally?? The cutesy little phrasing on their posters is OFFPUTTING to me… also the fact that reproductive health = abortions only to them??? I??
4 is especially disgusting-the MINORITY MOTHERS are making a decision for their body and their future. But the poster words make it seem like it’s (ab*rtion) something being done against their will-when really the issue is that these anti choice people don’t want women to have this free will
The same people who get up in arms about abortion (which is necessary healthcare) are notoriously silent about helping and supporting living, breathing children who need healthcare, and education.
Oh wow the race disparity mentioned in pic 4 is so interesting. According to a study published in 2013 by Dehlendorf et al., “The documented disparities in abortion rates in the United States mirror other fundamental inequalities: people of color and those with lower income and less education fare worse across a wide range of health outcomes, including infant mortality, cancer incidence, and life expectancy.9–11 These disparities are related to systemic hardships experienced by disadvantaged communities, including decreased access to health care, higher levels of stress, exposure to racial discrimination, and poorer living and working conditions.9,12,13 Understanding the systemic nature of these disparities and their relationship to health outcomes provides an essential context to the consideration of disparities in abortion rates.”
Man if only we could address the underlying systemic issues contributing the reasons why WOC choose to get abortions. Welp, let’s just take away all women’s right to bodily autonomy instead.
I genuinely think we need to redefine what is "peaceful". Protesting in favour of state violence (forced birth, carceral punishment for basic healthcare) is not, in my view, "peaceful"
I see these dipshits all the time (not necessarily these specific ones, I mean people harassing you with anti-abortion propaganda) because I live in DC, and there are only two words I have to say to them. Fuck off.
The best thing that people can do to reduce elective abortions is to support comprehensive sex education, low cost health clinics, abundant access to health providers in all communities and free contraception programs (like those provided by Planned Parenthood!)
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