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This blog is pro-choice and believes that Women have an absolute right to decide what to do with their own body and should be given the absolute best when it comes to their health and safety.

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📢 Abortion is still legal in the United States, but legality isn’t accessibility. ✨ Increasingly, more women and people are managing their abortions on their own without a doctor. There are a variety of reasons someone may choose to do so, including not being able to access in-clinic abortion care, cost, fear of safety or need for privacy. ✨ As we move closer to a post-Roe future, now is the time to educate yourself and your community about self-managed abortion with pills 💊 . The number of people turning to self-managed abortion is increasing, 📈 and knowledge about abortion can be empowering! 🍎 📚 📍Here’s what you need to know: -It’s MEDICALLY safe and effective to take the abortion pills 💊(misoprostol and/or misoprostol+mifepristone) to end a pregnancy in the first 12 weeks without a clinic or doctor supervision. -It’s LEGALLY risky ⚖️ - at least 20 people have been arrested for self-managing their care. ✨ 📚 Here are some resources to explore & learn more (and accounts to follow!) ✨Step by step instructions and information about self-managed abortion with pills is available from Reproaction, the World Health Organization (YUP), and Aid Access. ✨ Plan C has a report card of online abortion pill retailers! ✨If someone needs help or has questions about how to use the abortion pills, they can contactWomen Help Women 💻 ✨If someone has questions about their rights, they can call ☎️ If/When/How’s hotline atreprohelpline.org ✨If someone needs judgement free advice (or just needs an ear to listen!) they can call All-Options at 1-888-493-0092 ☎️ ✨ Before you @ me, I wouldn’t be sharing if I didn’t think it was necessary. This is community harm reduction. In the meantime, continue fighting like hell - contribute to your local abortion fund💰 and get involved! ✊️ Quote from @abortion_embroidery on Instagram!

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interesting

So, heartbeat bills aim to make seeking an abortion a prosecutable offense - a felony nonetheless. And felons cannot vote, differed adjudication or otherwise.

I think I see what's going on here.

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is it not misandry

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In April of 1967, Kathrine Switzer, a journalism student at Syracuse University 💁🏼‍♀️ entered the Boston Marathon under the name “K.V. Switzer,” while wearing a bulky sweatsuit. At the time, the Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) did not allow women into marathons. 🏃🏻‍♂️ Women lobbied the organizers of the Boston Marathon for years to change the policy. To further the effort, many women also “illegally” ran the marathon several times prior to 1972 to change the rule. 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏿‍♀️ Switzer was the first woman to officially enter AND run. Once discovered, the marathon tried to forcibly drag Switzer out from the race, but Switzer finished.🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

The AAU did not formally accept woman in long-distance running until the fall of 1971. 🍁 Women officially started to compete in the Boston Marathon in 1972. Nina Kuscsik, who was one of 8 women who ran that year, won the marathon. She was the first woman champion in the marathon’s 74-year history. 🏆🥇 Added bonus? All 8 women who started the race, completed it. 💪 In 1975, Kathrine Switzer returned to legally run the marathon, and finished second place. 🥈

Art by Liberal Jane Illustration

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importance of strong female leads in media

Leslie Knope, Sabrina Spellman, Katniss Everdeen, Hermione Granger, Jessica Jones. These kick ass women are just a couple of strong female characters who have helped to empower girls around the world. Female empowerment is more needed than ever. 75% of girls struggle with self esteem issues such as body image that more often than not lead to depression and suicidal habits. And while we push these girls to feel good about themselves and confident in their skin, is this truly possible without a solid image in media of what female confidence looks like? Whether in the industries of literature, TV, or music, we should provide images of strong women, strong women of every race, every sexuality, every religion. Setting examples of women helps dismantle misogyny as well as they set a precedent of women’s capabilities. All we need is strong women in the media to show young girls that women truly can do anything.

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when it feels like you’re in gender 101 again but you’re really just at work

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What happens when someone can’t afford abortion care? Across the county, local abortion funds are there to make abortion access a reality. If you didn’t know, the majority of abortion funds are powered by volunteers, who answer calls, drive folks to appointments, and provide funding and support for pregnant people. Abortion funds fill an important need in our communities and we love that they exist!! This month is the National Network of Abortion Fund’s Bowl-a-Thon, an opportunity to #fundabortionbuildpower. If you’re able, make sure to donate!

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“Gentlemen — let’s face it — charming as women are — they get to be a drag if you are forced to associate with them each and every day,” a Yale graduate 👨‍🎓 wrote to the school’s alumni magazine 📝 in the 1970s. This quote speaks volumes on the fight to make Ivy League universities admit women. • • • It wasn’t until 1977 that Harvard merged with its affiliated all-female college, Radcliffe, and started admitting women. Yale and Princeton didn’t begin admitting women until 1969. Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia didn’t offer admission to women until 1971, 1972 and 1981, respectively. Other Ivy Leagues had different policies, the University of Pennsylvania began accepting women on a case-by-case basis in 1876, and Cornell notably admitted its first female student in 1870. • • • Thirty years later, in the early 2000s, women accounted for half the undergraduates at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, and are beginning to be named presidents of Ivy League universities. 👩‍🏫 

Art by Liberal Jane Illustration

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Issues Project - Looking into the work ‘Slut’.

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“Reproductive rights are human rights.” And that includes access to safe and legal abortion. (Image is transparent)

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This Saturday we March for Our Lives

Join one of the 828 sibling marches planned in conjunction with the main march in Washington DC. Find one near you.

And make sure you’re registered to VOTE.  Find out how here.

-Art in collaboration with Tumblr Creatrs (@creatrs) and our friends at Kanvas

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Keep abortion legal, work to make it accessible. 

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Help raise awareness on this Trans Day of Visibility by reblogging with a sexual health story. Together, we can help empower everyone in the transgender community to own their sexual health!