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Jul 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
And the person who is carrying that unintended pregnancy is just a walking incubator?! Fuck this shit. Abortion is a human right that must be available to any pregnant person who wants it. Not only if there aren’t coaches willing to “raise that baby.”
People have abortions for various reasons, not just because there aren’t people willing to “raise that baby.”

Among those reasons: because they don’t want to be pregnant.

That’s why I had my two abortions. I did not want to be pregnant.

#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
I had two abortions because I did not want to be pregnant.

We are not walking incubators as the “put the baby up for adoption” crowd seem to think.

feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
I’ve written at least seven essays in which I make that point that must be the heart of demands for abortion on demand—safe and accessible for all who wants them.

I had an abortion because I did not want to be pregnant.

feministgiant.com

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Jul 27
Who has the guts to make an ad “I want an abortion because I don’t want to be pregnant.” This 👇🏽is awful. Reject these worst case scenarios, full of pain & trauma, for abortions. Stop appealing to zealots that your abortion is “good.” h/t @rerutled
I had an abortion because I did not want to be pregnant. That’s it. I was not raped. I was not sick. The pregnancies did not threaten my life. I did not already have children. I just did not want to be pregnant. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
In so many of abortion narratives, it is as if women were pleading for a mercy & forgiveness that belonged to no one to give; it was as if they had to prove they were “worthy” of the abortion feministgiant.com/p/essay-lies-s…
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Jul 26
Will it be #Eng women who bring football home at the #WEURO2022 finals this weekend? I don’t know. But I can guess that when they play, incidents of domestic abuse will not increase as they do when England’s men team play. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #Lionessess
“If England gets beaten, so will she.”

Researchers from UK’s Lancaster University who analysed domestic violence figures from England’s men’s games in 2002, 2006 & 2010 World Cup found that incidents of domestic abuse were 11 percent higher the day after an England men’s match.
More alarmingly: incidents of domestic abuse rose by 38 percent when the England men’s team lost and increased by 26 percent where England men won or drew, compared with days when there was no England match. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
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Jul 26
I wonder sometimes how much of a role The Handmaid's Tale played in making (white) Americans think that abortion would only ever be illegal (again) in a dystopian future, a world that looked nothing like their own, and so
easy to keep at arm’s distance. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
It has less to do with the book’s author, Margaret Atwood, and more to do with the inability of (white) Americans to imagine losing a right they’ve had recognized, albeit for less than 50 years.

The idea that a right could be revoked is so alien to so many white Americans.
The privilege of whiteness meant that for many in the U.S., there was something wrong with you if you were losing rights. And so banning abortion was the stuff of a dystopia they could keep at a distance, that they refused to recognize.
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Jul 26
"I am being attacked by the godless left because I said I'm a proud Christian Nationalist...The left has shown us exactly who they are. They hate America, they hate God, and they hate us," Marjorie Taylor Greene h/t @rerutled newsweek.com/marjorie-taylo…
These white supremacist Christian zealots have built a theocracy and still the U.S. will blather on about "religious freedom" because they are white and Christian and so often women and not considered dangerous. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
No matter how often those of us from authoritarian countries who know to be suspicious of state power, and those of us who have fought fascism -- be it via military rule/rule of religious fundamentalists -- warned & warned, white Americans arrogantly said it couldn’t happen here.
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Jul 25
When will US media finally say that this is a white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core? From abortion bans to “women must stay in abusive marriages.”

vice.com/en/article/93a…
The U.S. media don’t want to call them zealots, don’t want to call it a theocracy, don’t want to say they’re patriarchal, don’t want to say they’re anti-feminist. They tiptoe around all of this because these are white Christian people, ie “default.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
From Vance to Gaetz and a whole bunch of misogynist fucks in between

"Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb."

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Jul 25
Cis het men like Matt Gaetz act as if their penises and semen are some kind of reward or gift that anoints us super duper women or something.
When I write about my abortions, misogynist fucks like Matt Gaetz tweet @ me "You're lying. Nobody wanted to impregnante you," as if pregnancy is some kind of reward.

And yet, they oppose abortion because they also think pregnancy is some kind of punishment.

Which is it?
Abortion bans are intent on punishing us for daring to take ownership of our bodies and our sexual desire outside of the norms. They aim to police our bodies and punish us for sex outside norms. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
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