Sick and Wicked

mechinism:

brothasoul:

can we all just take a minute to imagine steve rogers’ face the first time he heard someone say “motherfucker” casually

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when npr talks about the “achievement gap” between low income kids and better off kids

mswyrr:

And they say stuff like how this gap is due to “lack of support at home.” That makes it sound like parents are just not choosing to be supportive or something. Like the problems are choices rather than economic abuse. ((shakes head)) The achievement gap is due to injustice. Structural violence. Everything else is a result of that cause, a system designed specifically to put masses of people under extraordinary physical and emotional stress, hunger, and despair.

I hear Republicans say that NPR is so left-y and I’m, like, not really! Not even vaguely. They’re firmly center of the road, if not a bit right. They only seem lefty because you swerved off the road altogether a long time ago and you can’t see reason from the weeds.

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rabbleprochoice:

bebinn:

Oklahoma Doctor Refuses To Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception

cognitivedissonance:

ThinkProgress reports: “An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim because the medication violated the health provider’s personal beliefs… ‘I will not give you emergency contraceptives because it goes against my believes,’ the doctor allegedly told the rape victim and her mother, Rhonda. ‘She knew my daughter had just been raped. Her attitude was so judgmental and I felt that she was just judging my daughter.’

Oklahoma law shields providers from offering the perfectly legal medication under a ‘conscience clause’ which could significantly hinder women’s access to contraception services.”

This is sick. You might have to carry your rapist’s child because MY beliefs say so? In what universe is that OK? Whatever happened to “first, do no harm” – and I mean the living, breathing patient in front of you, not a maybe baby conceived by a rape. The religious right whines about secularism intruding into their beliefs, but what is more intrusive than forced pregnancy?

This woman was luckily able to get EC at another hospital. Other people might not be so lucky.

I believe this physician’s medical license should be revoked, but thanks to conscience clauses this physician faces absolutely no consequences of their actions. I can guarantee the patients they refused to treat who couldn’t get emergency contraception from another party get to live with the consequences of that physician’s actions, though.

I am so fucking disgusted.

Love,

Rabble

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Say it with me now:

thisgingersnapsback:

• Dr. George Tiller’s killing was not justifiable homicide, it was murder.
• Blowing up abortion clinics is terrorism.
• Defacing and covering abortion clinics in graffiti is vandalism.
• Chanting “You’re next!” at doctors and clinic administrators is threatening them.
• Preventing patients from entering a clinic by shouting at them, distracting them, walking in front of them, blocking their way with your bodies, or preventing them from exiting their cars is harassment.

You’re not a good person if you in any way, shape or form support, defend, or ignore any of these actions. Stop deluding yourself.

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