“You think IUDs should be illegal?” Reid pressed.
“I don’t think they should be legal, “Hawkins replied. “They put women at risk and they kill children.”
“What about the birth control pill?” the unrelenting Reid asked.
“I do not think it should be legal, I think that shouldn’t be legal,” Hawkins replied before trying to change the subject.
“Kristan, Kristan, Kristan,” Reid said holding up her hand. “I just want clarity. You think that the pill and the IUD should be illegal, right?”
“In my ideal world, yes,” Hawkins stated. “But I don’t think that’s something we’re working towards in the pro-life movement. In the pro-life movement we’re working towards abolishing abortion. That’s why we want Planned Parenthood’s money to go to health centers which don’t do contraception.”
“We’ve gotten some real clarity,” Reid said as she concluded the interview. “I think the American people have gotten quite a bit of clarity on what your movement wants to do.”
Margaret Sanger is rolling in her grave. The fight is never over. Now we will have to fight for birth control. Basic birth control. Do not take anything for granted. Fight for it.
What. The. FUCK???
Reproduction freedom is economic freedom…and well….just basic freedom…Everything people with uteruses do is tied to whether or not we have kids. I couldnt be doing what I want in life if I was constantly knocked up. I couldnt have my job, the ability to travel and see new things, to partake in the economy, to even just sleep in or enjoy my hobbies. All these things I mentioned are my choice, and I have every right to them. Every human has the right to choose their own path in life. Birth control, and easy affordable access to it, is basic freedom. Keep this in mind if u ever think its not a big deal. This is my life. Its not a fucking game. This is basic human rights.
Conservatives keep saying that reproductive rights activists are overreacting when they say birth control may be under attack with the new government, and yet here we are with political groups casually suggesting that it ought to be made illegal.
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No, you stupid fuckwits. It should not be made illegal. You want to know fucking why?
Because regardless of whether or not some people with uteruses are having sex, we still need birth control to regulate disorders like PCOS. What’s that, I hear you asking? It’s this syndrome that affects 5 to 10% of people with a vagina in the US alone, which is to say around 5 million of us. It causes infertility, and leads, if it’s untreated, to things like diabetes, heart disease, hair loss, and, oh yeah, fucking endometrial cancer because it causes people to not have their period, despite their uterine lining building up every month as normal. If left for too long, the uterus will start doing what mine did, and growing polyps that can eventually turn into tumors. Fortunately in my case it was caught early and didn’t develop into cancer, but it very well could have, and I now use birth control to keep that from happening again. Making birth control illegal, you goldstar A plus fucking ignorant evil bastards, will make it impossible for people like me (again – there are five million of us) to stay healthy. You will, in short, be killing us, not because we dared to have a healthy sex life, but just because you fucking can. Pro-life? More like pro complete and utter willful ignorance. You make me fucking sick (literally!)
Anti-choice advocate admits to Joy Reid her ultimate goal is to make birth control illegal
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