The best possible expression to have when seeking a vasectomy

From Informed Consent by Rafiki

Women’s rights and bodily autonomy are under attack, but it’s important we remember the role medical misogyny plays in endangering our lives.

It’s not new, and it’s only getting worse.

When I wanted a tubal ligation, I was denied because I wasn’t married and thus couldn’t get my husband’s ‘permission’.

When I was told I was unlikely to survive a pregnancy, I asked again and again I was denied because I might ‘meet a man who wants kids.’

When I needed a hysterectomy, doctors sought the permission of my 22 year old boyfriend of less than THREE months. They asked him if he would leave me when I became ‘barren’.

Men who want a vasectomy do not have to jump through these hoops. Their body, their choice.

None of us should need a man to consent in order to get the care we want and need.

It’s archaic, patriarchal bullsh*t and we must keep calling it out.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/pregnancy-will-likely-kill-you-but

#NY Doctor Indicted in #Louisiana for Sending #Abortion Pills There

The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion & states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.

#law #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #MaleSupremacy #FarRight #extremism #Trump #SCOTUS #RoeVWade #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/health/abortion-louisiana-new-york-prosecution-shield-law.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

New Zine: How To Do It Anyway: A Guide to Self-Managing an Abortion at Home

"This zine is a love letter to anyone who finds themself hungry for the information contained in these pages, no matter the circumstances that lead to this booklet coming into your hands. This resource was diligently compiled and written with care by a few clinic workers in the midwest for the patients we can’t see anymore, in the wake of the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 2022."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/30/new-zine-how-to-do-it-anyway-a-guide-to-self-managing-an-abortion-at-home/

No time to wait to create a terror state for everyone with a uterus!

“A Safe Choice is a referral network of caring and experienced medical doctors who provide safe and effective medication abortions to women nationwide.”

Spread the word.

https://asafechoicenetwork.com/

A New Rallying Cry for the Irony-Poisoned Right

It took less than twenty-four hours after #Trump’s reëlection for young #men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered #regression: “Your body, my choice.”

#ReproductiveRights #WomensRights #CivilRights #BodilyAutonomy #MaleSupremacy
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/your-body-my-choice-a-new-rallying-cry-for-the-irony-poisoned-right

#GiftArticle

We’ve Been Underestimating the Scale of #Women’s #Fury

By Michelle Goldberg

On Saturday evening I was watching a movie w/my family when a text message made me gasp so hard that it scared them. “What happened?” my husband asked, worried. “Nothing bad,” I said, slightly overcome. “It’s just … #AnnSelzer has #Harris up 3 in #Iowa!”

#HellHathNoFury #RoeRage #misogyny #BodilyAutonomy #ReproductiveRights #WomensRights #HumanRights #WomensHealth
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opinion/women-polls-trump-iowa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU4.-Vul.T65utkaFMJyp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I'm not content warning this, it's just a #woman in her underwear. Also, that would be irony

This is #Tehran’s Islamic Azad University on Nov 2

She was assaulted by #Iran's #morality #police because her #hijab was "improper"

So she just stripped

She was arrested and I don't think it will go well for her. Iran's weak, insecure, moronic hangups over #women's clothing is vicious cruel and violent. They kill women for showing their hair. It's all so fucking stupid

I don't like to talk about politics on this account. There comes a point where we must. 4 days before the most important election in #US history is one of them. I would've liked to have posted this sooner, but I really didn't want to cut into my already disrupted October plans.

I have to post this now.

I think it's obvious at this point that I support Kamala Harris and the Democrats in this election, and I think it's obvious why, as a #queer and #disabled #transgender #furry, I would support the party that has given people like me more protections over the one that has openly tried to go after them.

I need not remind people of the years we've spent fighting against Republicans on #GayMarriage, #TransRights, #Disability protections like the #ADA, Pro-Choice issues even beyond abortion and #BodyModification into #BodilyAutonomy in general, and claims that #furries are trying to "put litterboxes in school #bathrooms."

This thread is not about any of those things.

READ ON.

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A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “#Crime” to Intervene in Her #Miscarriage at a #Texas Hospital

#JosseliBarnica is 1 of at least 2 pregnant TX women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the #FetalHeartbeat stopped.

#law #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensHealth #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveRights #AbortionRights #MaternalMortality #BodilyAutonomy #agency #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

"Whether the women like it or not" - Donald Trump

Do you think Amber Thurman in GA & Josseli Barnica in TX & their families liked being denied the standard medical care they should have received?

Trump thought he knew better. Now they're dead. Vote #VoteBlueAllTheWayDown