Femalibetarian

cognitivedissonance:

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

One of the reasons Rick Santorum is doing so well in the Republican primary is that he is bringing back two of the Supreme Court cases that were decided decades ago, but that the Republicans refuse to accept as the law of the land.

Griswold v. Connecticut, (1965), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the “right to marital privacy”. […]

Roe v. Wade, (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with companion case Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state’s two legitimate interests for regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting the woman’s health. Saying that these state interests become stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the woman’s current trimester of pregnancy. […]

Republicans want to roll back the clock on decades of progress. And Rick Santorum is leading the charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade

All of this. On a side note, that cartoon of Santorum is goddamn frightening.

If the government can force women to have children, why can’t they force sterilization for welfare recipients with half a dozen children?

cognitivedissonance:

This is what I will imagine from now on with Rush and those embracing Bill O’s defense of El Rushbo.

This whole “debate” is painfully exhausting. And let me be clear, this is not a debate. This is a war against anyone who identifies as female. Period.

It crushes me to watch those of us who use contraception for any reason denigrated as sluts, whores, prostitutes, etc. I spoke with one woman who told me she broke down in tears at work listening to Rush Limbaugh lambaste Sandra Fluke for a third day. She was embarrassed. I don’t think she should be ashamed at all. 

I’m tired. I’m frustrated. I’m enraged. But until stone-age motherfuckers like Limbaugh and O’Reilly recognize why THIS IS NOT OK, I will keep fighting. Also, I know they never will recognize it, so I will never, ever stop. You want a war, we will give you a war.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

You did not apologize, Rush. Nor do you get it.

I’ve listened to your shit since I was young. In 15 minutes, it will be my 28th birthday. You have been on air spewing your hate since I was four. Bless your little Viagra-strained heart and the First Amendment, no?

Your verbal brutalization of Sandra Fluke, and your minions joining you… THAT was a step too far. 

As I wrote in my “Wyoming Monologues” piece, “Going Hungry”: 

I want to climb to the tallest building I can find and take the loudest bullhorn in existence, and read these comments to a crowd of women important to these men. Their grandmothers, sisters, mothers, wives, girlfriends, kindergarten teachers – I want them all to know what these men think is a legitimate debate tactic. I want these women to know that if they step out of line, they too could be labeled cunts, bitches, dykes, fat ugly cows. I want those women to turn to these men and shame them for their misogyny. I want them to feel pain, not sharp, but an aching hollowness – much like a hungry stomach.

I want to scream as loud as I have to for every single one of the inhabitants of the gutter to hear me: “This is a coup d’état, motherfuckers!”

Logically, I cannot do this, but I can continue to speak. We can continue to speak. And yes, I am angry, but we have every right to be angry when just one of us is subject to cruelty…

So to you hoping that just the right combination of slurs will unlock such devastation in a woman’s being that you no longer have to tell her to shut the fuck up: I want you to listen.

Your opinions do not define and delegitimize us women.

In order to extinguish our humanity, you disregard your own.

“This is a coup d’état, motherfuckers!”

You have been duly warned.

slitwristsandbrokenhearts:

This Thursday, the 1st of March, is Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD). Spread the word & draw butterflies! ♥

(via caffeinatedfeminist)