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this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] put on the best talent show this towns ever seen

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anime tree

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(yo, tratando de conocerme)

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Melvyn Petterson - Cat Study (1992)

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The Adelitas during the Mexican Revolution, circa 1915.

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Autobiographical ink doodle

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I think part of the reason it’s so hard to discuss abortion’s importance for any woman’s life is because we would have to actually talk about how much harder having children makes your life.

We discuss mommy penalties on working moms, but always under the assumption that the child was wanted.

We don’t talk about the woman with the unplanned pregnancy, crying in her bathroom alone at night cause she can’t get her baby to sleep and also she has a big conference call tomorrow.

We don’t talk about the resentment a 20 year old feels after dropping out of college and moving back home to raise a kid she never planned for, watching her future slip away, knowing it’ll be years, decades likely, before she can finish her degree (if she’s ever able to).

Families with planned pregnancies already struggle to find childcare. Do you honestly think a young single mother has an easier time juggling a job and a baby, all alone?!

We think of it as selfish for choosing an abortion to complete college of move further in your career, but there are scores of men out there who simply dip out and disappear when they find out their One Night Stand is pregnant. They face relatively few consequences.

No suburban mom wants to admit that she knows she would encourage her 16 year old daughter to get an abortion if she fell pregnant, but we all know that’s precisely what would happen cause mom doesn’t want her daughter to lose her future to diapers and 3 am feedings.

But I do think these are conversations that need to be slowly introduced, one on one, to women who are on the fence.

Answer me honestly; if your kid was pregnant in college, what would you tell her to do?

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Henri van der Stok, Cat 1880 - 1946

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Listen, there's no secret mankind won't one day know and perhaps regret knowing

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