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How you give birth is part of being pro-choice too

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What’s up with all the labor and delivery stigma and mom shaming with progressives? It’s like, ok do anything you want for the first few months of pregnancy–vacuum that baby right out if you like! But as soon as you’re in the third trimester you’d better be “breathing” that baby out into a bathtub surrounded by candles or you are a terrible mother!!What’s really bizarre about it is all the people who barely know me, have 0 idea about my medical situation, 0 medical training/background, and 0 interest in having kids themselves are suddenly very keen on explaining to me how I should give birth, and making all sorts of crazy assumptions about people based on how they give birth (e….

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"When body size becomes something that must be cured, at any cost, so that we can, as so much ad copy…"

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“When body size becomes something that must be cured, at any cost, so that we can, as so much ad copy promises us, ‘look—but most importantly, feel—our best,’ we will buy the magic beans; we will run until we decimate our knees; we will give up carbs, and then saturated fats, and then vegetable oils, and keep on giving up until we’re living on air—because there are no trans fats or pesticides in air (right?). This delusion is the engine purring in the heart of some great machine that sucks in human insecurity and spits out money.” – Laura Bogart, My body doesn’t need a cure: Sizeism, classism and the big-business hustle of the clean-eating industry                             (via endangeredbodiesnyc)

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"It’s okay to be unsteady. You’re not doing a ‘bad job’ at recovery and it’s not a ‘setback.’ It’s…"

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“It’s okay to be unsteady. You’re not doing a ‘bad job’ at recovery and it’s not a ‘setback.’ It’s all part of the process and it’s totally, 100{7920e18cf5186565893a18d1f69fa52bf2806dc683a7bfcea51d671d2f7d8125} fine. Every journey that’s worth being on is a little messy.” – @samdylanfinch We are here for you 24/7 at 866-488-7386. You are amazing and you are never alone. (via thetrevorproject)

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I’ve always heard about how pregnancy and childbirth “ruins” a woman’s body from the man’s…

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I’ve always heard about how pregnancy and childbirth “ruins” a woman’s body from the man’s perspective. How she gets stretch marks, pregnancy weight, saggy boobs, and a “loose” vagina. It leads you to believe that the worst thing about pregnancy and childbirth are these shallow things and that these shallow things matter at all. I do feel like my body is ruined by pregnancy. Because I am 38 weeks pregnant and completely disabled with a pregnancy related vascular condition. I’m laying here on my side. I can’t sit up straight for very long even. I’m in pain.20{7920e18cf5186565893a18d1f69fa52bf2806dc683a7bfcea51d671d2f7d8125} of pregnancies are so disabling they result in bedrest. Nearly a third end in a serious surgical intervention–the cesarean section–requiring a long healing time. Yet, there is no …

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“Why do women get postpartum depression anyway? I mean, they have a baby…

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“Why do women get postpartum depression anyway? I mean, they have a baby now!”“Why do women need maternity leave? They can bond with the baby after work”Umm idk because there is a giant tear running from their vag to their butthole and they’re cramping and bleeding for several weeks while their uterus contracts back down from 800 times its normal size and they can’t take a shit and hemeroids and urinary catheters because their ripped up vulva is too swollen to pee through and cracked, bleeding nipples, and a crying infant that needs to feed from said cracked nipples 12 times a day and needs its diaper changed about that much too.Do people not get that childbirth is horrifying? Like, just…