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Chuck Winder, Idaho state senator, suggests women use rape as an excuse for abortion right before the Idaho Senate passed a bill which requires women to have an ultrasound prior to obtaining an abortion. The bill makes no exception for victims of rape, incest, or medical emergencies. (via rcabbasi)

Women just love lying about a rape, don’t they?

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as a woman, i lie about rape 5-7 times a day JUST FOR FUN

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I’m seriously beginning to suspect that Republicans don’t know or understand that women can actually hear what they are saying - or in this case read it. Or that we do actually vote these days. 

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I’m actually convinced Republicans just think women are stupid and cannot understand what they are saying. That, or they just really fucking hate women. I’m thinking its the latter.

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 ”Do you know we can hear you right now?” face. 

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cajunboy:

uproxx:

‘Lucille and Mitt’ Is The Lucille Bluth/Mitt Romney Mashup Daymaker The World Has Been Clamoring For

I want to cuddle with whoever came up with the idea of marrying Lucille Bluth with Mitt Romney.

countrygramma:

“You can’t leave a child behind that was never picked up.”

Photos from Southern Humboldt Unified School District’s protest of the California budget cuts, which removed public school buses from the state budget. Thanks in large part to their efforts, SB 81 was passed in February 2012, which is a stop-gap measure to provide transit funding for the rest of the 2011-12 school year. 

Photo credits Becky Crossland & Lisa Gribi

“You can’t leave a child behind that was never picked up.” X10000

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ihopericksantorum:

I hope Rick Santorum gives Mitt Romney his heart for Christmas, and the very next day he gives it away.

This may be the greatest sentence ever constructed. 

huffpostcomedy:

funnyordie:

Women’s Health Experts Speak Out with Nick Offerman, Tim Meadows and Judd Nelson

Male experts agree: No one knows more about women’s issues like birth control than middle-aged men and the Republican party.

This is beautiful.

Offerman at the end… flawless. 

stfusexists:

jessicavalenti:

My new favorite politician. Oklahoma Senator Judy Eason McIntyre holds a sign at a pro-choice rally yesterday that reads, “If I wanted the government in my womb, I’d fuck a Senator.” (It’s too bad, though, that the mainstream press seems focused on this particular sign rather than the fact that so many people came out to protest the awful personhood bill.

Can we please clone this woman and just have her represent every district? Please?

She’s got my vote. 

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— JON STEWART, The Daily Show.

Yep, conservatives.

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Secretary Hilary Clinton’s LGBT Speech at Geneva (via suupjared)

Can I get an Amen?

redhead-monster:

Okay, forget everything I have ever complained about or told you to do, politically. Forget if you don’t read political posts. Stop. WATCH/READ THIS RIGHT NOW.

For those of you who for some reason cannot or do not want to watch the video, allow me to summarize. Right now there is a law that has passed the Virginia legislature that would mandate a trans-vaginal ultrasound for anyone seeking an abortion. No exceptions.

Now that in and of itself does not sound so scary, right? Wrong. A trans-vaginal ultrasound is not a normal type of ultrasound. It is an ultrasound that is taken by sticking a probe into a woman’s vagina. And it is completely and totally medically unnecessary. The Republican legislators who have passed this bill admit to it being completely medically unnecessary. It exists for the sole purpose of discouraging women from getting abortions.

I honestly could care less what your personal views on abortion are, but here’s something we have to get straight right now: no matter how you feel about abortion or why, this is government-mandated rape. Think I’m exaggerating? Let’s look at how rape is defined by the federal government of the United States of America:

“The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”

(source)

Let’s re-iterate here: there are no exceptions. It doesn’t matter if you are getting an abortion one week or eight months into your pregnancy. You will be forcibly probed. It doesn’t matter if you are aborting for personal reasons or because it’s a medical necessity for either your safety or the safety of your child. You will be forcibly probed. It doesn’t matter if you are fourteen or forty. You will be forcibly probed. It does not matter if your child is the product of incest or even the product of rape. You will be forcibly probed.

Now, I don’t live or vote in Virginia. Technically, there is nothing I can do about this. But currently this bill is on the way to the governor’s desk, and the only hope there is of it not becoming law is if Virginia citizens contact the Governor and tell him about their opposition to him signing this into law. (Contact information is here. Please note that calling generally carries more weight than e-mailing does.)

Please re-blog this story. E-mail it to everyone you know. Tell them to e-mail it to everyone they know. Eventually, some of these people we all know should be from Virginia, and if you are from Virginia, you need to let your voice be heard now. Regardless of if you think life begins at conception, there is no justification, ever, for the government mandating the rape of women.

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Alabama State Senator thinks raising teacher pay is against the teachings of the Bible (via desertmar)

Who would have believed an Alabama Republican would have a sensible explanation of why our legislatures suck?

They pay too well, so they attract greedy people who shouldn’t be there.

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And this is why the sheer number of teachers I know who vote Republican simply astounds me.

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I think I pulled a muscle trying not to punch the stupid off my screen. 

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Kris Broughton (via azspot)

BAM.

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Burn

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I believe that calls for a Michael Scott “BOOM ROASTED.”

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notafraidofruins:

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corycorybobory:

Oklahoma Senator Proposes Making It Illegal For Men To Ejaculate Except Into A Woman’s Sexual Organs

Life imitating art aka Legally Blonde:

Don’t worry, she’s joking. But she’s joking to make a really good point.

The controversial Senate Bill 1433, which is one of the “personhood laws” cropping up in conservative states is seeking to define life as begining at conception, and that “the unborn child at every stage of development (has) all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state.”

That makes it really hard to get an abortion.

Perhaps inspired by the Virgina State senator who proposed a mandatory rectal exam for men looking to recieve erectile dysfunction drugs, if women had to have an ultrasound to receive an abortion,  Oklahoma Senator Constance Johnson– our new hero – added an “Every Sperm Is Sacred” amendment claiming that:

Any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman’s vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child.

High five, lady.

Satirical law is fun.

I love satire. I love people who use it to protect uterus-bearing individuals’ rights. I love black women. I love black women using satire to protect uterus bearing individuals’ rights. There is nothing not to love about this.

omg what a badass.

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veggielezzyfemmie:

Mitt Romney’s unleashed some pretty tough anti-birth control talk this campaign season. He’s stated repeatedly that he believes that life begins at conception, and that the morning after pill is murder. Interestingly enough, Mitt Romney’s gigantic stock portfolio contains a fair amount of money actually invested in companies that manufacture birth control and the morning after pill. I suppose now’s as good a time as ever to thank Mitt Romney investing in the technology that has enabled me to have so much premarital sex. 

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Reblogging to highlight hypocrisy.