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| Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | 2:14 pm
[sofiesverden]
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FFL´s supporters in Latin America
Is there anyone here living in/comes from a Latin American country?
Have you spoken to people around you about Feminists for Life?
P.S. Hope this post is allowed | | Friday, August 29th, 2008 | 11:53 pm
[in_my_pjs]
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on purpose?
umm... so was the icon changed on purpose or was it an accident? a hack? i had the "pro-life feminism is a radical notion...." icon as an image on my lj & all of a sudden it's a cartoon woman & when i go to the site i see a cartoon woman. i have cleared my cache & restarted firefox. i'm confused!!!
so on XP it's still weird, but on Vista the icon is what it should be. wtf? | 3:31 pm
[maranta]
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FFL confirms that Sarah Palin is a Feminist for Life member Here's the press release from Feminists for Life about new VP candidate Sarah Palin: http://feministsforlife.org/news/ffl-member-sarah-palin-vp.htmI have seen a few comments around LJ already about her being in Feminists for Life. I think this is really going to help raise awareness about our cause. | | Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | 11:26 pm
[hbpen]
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| | Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 | 11:33 pm
[hbpen]
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"Insurance pays for Viagra but not the pill!" Anyone who believes that or has friends who believe that should check out the FactCheck.org story about a PP commercial about McCain. | 7:32 pm
[marauderthesn]
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Right to refuse medical treatment
I've read various accounts of women who got pregnant and were told by their doctors that, for some kind of health reason, they "had" to have an abortion. The doctors in these accounts make it sound as though it's a done decision, and I was wondering - are a lot of people not aware that they have the right to refuse medical treatment? It really seems like some of these women, who went on to have abortions and regret them, were unaware that they didn't have to have an abortion because the doctor told them they did.
Also, I think it's horribly unethical of doctors to present abortion as the only possibility, instead of saying something along the lines of, "If you continue the pregnancy there's an X% chance that blah blah blah and it's possible that we could try XYZ." Who the hell are these people, anyway? "You have to have an abortion"? If any doctor told me that I "had" to have any sort of treatment or procedure, I'd get a new doctor. | | Saturday, July 19th, 2008 | 9:48 am
[goodbyemyboy]
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We live in a misogynistic society. This is not our children’s fault so much as our own. When we flaunt abortion as the panacea for our inability to recognize motherhood as an important contribution to society and to acknowledge that mothers may have ambitions in life other than motherhood – ambitions that are not per se incompatible with motherhood but that are made so by a myopic outlook on motherhood and ambition – we effectively reinforce prejudices against mothers, children and families. This is the heart of my position against abortion. I am not “anti-choice.” I only firmly believe that choice in matters of pregnancy has effectively reduced the range of options available to women in society. And this occurred principally when we made childbearing a personal choice for which women alone are held accountable. Read the rest of the post; it's a good one. | | Friday, July 18th, 2008 | 9:19 pm
[goodbyemyboy]
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Nurse Accidentally Gives Wrong Woman Abortion Don't worry, she got cautioned for it. | | Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | 10:29 pm
[egothmaniac] |
So I think I've asked this before in this community but wanted to ask it again differently:
If you consider yourself to be an atheist/agnostic/humanist, what made you decide to be pro-life?
I say this as a Catholic who just grew up being taught abortion was wrong. As I got older, I learned more and was convinced of scientific and sociological reasons to be pro-life as well. To be honest, I don't know if I'd have the courage to be pro-life if I wasn't raised to be so considering the bad name some extremist give pro-lifers and mainstream feminism's focus on reproductive rights.
I am intrigued especially by people who either grew up with no specific religious teaching or later became non-religious and are pro-life (not because I think you have to be religious to be pro-life obviously!) Were you convinced by studying human development? Or did abortion just always feel wrong to you? Love to hear your reasons and stories! | 2:53 pm
[luna_glass_wall]
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| | Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | 4:43 pm
[goodbyemyboy]
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Abortion and Regret I recently found this blog post by a pro-lifer on women who say they don't regret their abortions. The testimonial that jumped out at me, and the poster, the most was this one: "It has been two weeks, and I haven’t cried in days, I have slept, and I know my baby is in Heaven, and one day when I know I can do it, and provide a better life, I will." I'm reminded of the quote from Frederica Mathewes-Green: "No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg." And I think I'm starting to understand why there's such a conflict between pro-lifers who want to believe that all women must regret their abortions and pro-choicers who want to believe that no woman ever does; maybe it's just a difference of definition. Maybe in a sense we're both right: women don't regret being out of the trap, to use Mathewes-Green's imagery, but they do regret having to gnaw off their own leg to do it. | | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | 4:25 pm
[rehenazelreyhan]
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Beauty Myth - a sweet morsel, had to share Today while reading The Beauty Myth, I came across a morsel that was so good I just had to share. The author, Naomi Wolf, is speaking about the signs of female aging, and how our culture treats it like disease: " You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your way. Or you could see that if a woman is healthy she lives to grow old; as she thrives, she reacts and speaks and shows emotion, and grows into her face. Lines trace her thought and radiate from the corners of her eyes after decades of laughter, closing together like fans as she smiles. You could call the lines a network of "serious lesions", or you could see that in a precise calligraphy, thought has etched marks of concentration between her brows, and drawn across her forehead the horizontal creases of surprise, delight, compassion, and good talk. A lifetime of kissing, of speaking and weeping, shows expressively around a mouth scored like a leaf in motion. The skin loosens on her face and throat, giving her features a setting of sensual dignity; her features grow stronger as she does. She has looked around in her life, and it shows. When gray and white show in her hair, you could call it a dirty secret or you could call it silver or moonlight. Her body fills into itself, taking on gravity like a bather breasting water, growing generous with the rest of her. The darkening under her eyes, the weight of her lids, their minute cross-hatching, reveal that what she has been part of has left in her its complexity and richness. She is darker, stronger, looser, tougher, sexier. The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.
Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged status depnd on it, it is an operable condition." Reading this gave me another opportunity to consider that fine vertical crease in my forehead - the one that appeared three years ago - and to ponder my stretchmarks once again. Evidence of pain and hard work carved onto my body. The more I read things like this, shared with such eloquence, the more I take the time to defy what the media is trying to force-feed me, I feel like these "flaws" really are beautiful, in a wabi-sabi kind of way. | | Monday, June 16th, 2008 | 6:58 pm
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| | Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 | 10:54 pm
[kerya]
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Need some bumper stickers?
I know, a girl can never have too many pro-life bumper stickers.. but I've got 3 from FFL that need good homes. If you're interested, comment here with your email (comments are screened).
The stickers are
- Women Deserve Better than Abortion
- Peace Begins in the Womb
- Feminists for Life | | Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | 1:11 am
[spacelover_it]
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First photo of an human egg during ovulation Nature is beautiful, that's all I wish to say after reading this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stmA human egg looks so better inside a woman then in glassware under a microscope. | | Thursday, June 5th, 2008 | 3:44 pm
[la_veuve_chibi]
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Wha? Female celebrities with brains?? From various wires: Kristin Davis says she’s nothing like her "Sex and the City" character, Charlotte York, obsessed with getting married. "When I was young, I thought, I never want to get married, because I lived in the South, and that was all anybody talked about," the South Carolina native said at an AIDS benefit in Los Angeles last week. "All I wanted to do was come to New York and do theater. I did not want to be relying on some man!" --- Ashley Judd says she decided to lend her voice against human trafficking after she "stumbled upon" the issue while visiting brothels, slums, hospices and other clinics in 12 nations to promote public health. "I know that the unheard are helped when they are heard. I know that compassionate listening helps me, and my goal was to help the U. N. help them," the actress said at a news conference this week at U. N. headquarters in New York. Judd also has used her celebrity to focus attention on HIV/AIDS prevention to young adults around the world. She has been serving as a global ambassador for YouthAIDS, an education and prevention program of the group Population Services International. "I do think that all of the issues are fundamentally connected. They all spring out of gender inequality," she told reporters. Current Mood:  optimistic | | Friday, April 18th, 2008 | 11:10 pm
[hbpen]
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This comm's icon...? Who made this comm's default icon? I want to use it. (I also want to slow down the text.) But I want to credit properly IF it's sharable by the creator... | 4:04 pm
[bodhi_tree_seed] |
| | Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 | 9:51 pm
[the_alchemist]
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Good quote
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." Theodore H White
I stumbled on this quote in someone's blog. It's a huge exaggeration, of course, but I think I will find it heartening next time I wonder whether my friends/acquaintances/social circle are right and having moral qualms about abortion makes me as evil/unthinking/unreasonable/stupid as they think it does. | | Friday, March 7th, 2008 | 11:33 pm
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