#pregnancy resource center

[thatonebasicfan]

imagine using a fictional character to push anti-choice bullsit. you clearly don't understand the reasons why women get abortions and don't understand why a fetus is usually not capable of having their own autonomy. if you're ignorant on a topic, stop running your mouth. and stop weaponizing fictional characters to push your harmful and outdated point of view. it's people like you who make it so hard for women in this world. this fandom doesn't deserve to be filled with your hate

I understand why women get abortions because 1) I am a woman 2) I have made friends and know a lot of women who have had abortions 3) I have an IQ over 70.

I also have read a lot on why women choose to get abortions. And a lot of the time it seems to be that the woman had unprotected sex with a man, and got pregnant. And because a lot of companies don't want to pay paternity leave, they often will encourage women to get abortions.

There are other cases where it's different, like a woman who is lower income, a teen who had sex with her boyfriend, or even, in the very small minority of women who were raped. I'm those situations the women are scared, and the pro abortion ppl just run around like chickens with their heads cut off screaming that if the frightened girl doesn't get an abortion, her life is over.

But allegedly "pro choice" ppl don't support things that give a woman a choice, like pregnancy resource centers, which help low income women and teens get things they need throughout pregnancy, for often no or very little cost. There are stories of pregnancy resource centers raising money to build or buy houses to women who can't afford it. Plus, they will offer give support and try to help the rape victim.

And what do pro aborts do? They burn them down.

Stop pretending like I'm an idiot when you say I'm "weaponizing fictional characters" like bitch, they aren't REAL. This may be a new concept, but you can IGNORE posts, and guess what? You can even filter tags on Tumblr if you don't want politics in the fandom content that you view. Also, you can BLOCK people of you don't want to see their content

And I'm not the idiot wanting to harm women, I think women should be encouraged to carry firearms so she can defend herself, and I don't want men in the woman's locker room.

#asks #ppl will accuse me of harming women assuming I'm a dude #like no #im a girl #and one that isn't trans either #im an authentic woman #abortion #fandom #women #guns rights are women's rights #pregnancy resource center #pregnancy

[prolifeproliberty]

Support your local pregnancy center this Christmas!

Pregnancy centers are busier than ever supporting moms and their babies during the Christmas season. If you’re looking for an opportunity to give to a great cause, please locate your closest pregnancy center and ask them what they need (you can call, email, or find their social media). They may have a wishlist of items they need more of, like diapers, baby clothes, formula, and so on. Monetary donations are also always helpful, of course!

If you don’t have a pregnancy center near you, my nearest one is currently in need of more diapers. You can order items off their Amazon Wishlist and have it sent straight to them.

Let’s make sure our pregnancy centers have the support they need so they can support families in need this Christmas!

#Christmas #charity #donation #pregnancy center #pregnancy resource centers

[raz-b-rose]

Hey @staff can you please help spread more of the resources available to women who are in the midst of an unplanned pregnancy?

Only linking women to abortion donation sites, leads them to think that their only option (or choice if you will) is abortion. Because all you have is-

After all these all exist for women

We have this mental health helpline, this post, and this post full of help for women in need.

Giving them clothes, food, medical care, and can even help with housing and financial stress. Connecting them with whatever resource needed, helping them through whatever decision they decide.

We also offer post-abortion care (mental and physical) unlike most PP, with no judgment, because we care about women regardless of their choice.

If you could be unbiased and show the women on this site that there are other resources available to them because they are scared, stressed and feeling hopeless. Show you're pro women by truly giving them the knowledge they need to survive.

The goal here is to educate these women so as many lives as possible are saved. Please and thank you. 

#pro life #pro women #abortion #pro abortion #anti abortion #anti pro life #pro choice #roe vs. wade #roe v wade #pregnancy resources #pregnancy resource centers #pregnancy #helping women #help resources #resources #pre abortion #post abortion #pre birth #post birth

[sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway]

pray for me, I'm going to the local pregnancy resource center to ask them what large project I can organize for them.

#prayer request #Prolife #Pregnancy resource centers

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

“It’s in the tens of thousands of dollars,” said Becky Sheetz, CEO of Life First (which operates two Pregnancy Resource Centers in Virginia), when asked how much her organization is spending on security.⁠ ⁠ With ongoing violence and with the rhetoric surrounding PRCs continuing to heat up on Capitol Hill, pregnancy center staff are increasingly finding themselves having to divert valuable resources away from helping vulnerable women in need in order to bolster security measures for their buildings.⁠

Source: washingtonstand.com⁠

#Pregnancy Resource Centers #fire bombing #vandalism #leftist radicals #domestic terrorism #The Washington Stand

[aceofstars16]

Nothing like seeing a zine and being like “eh I’m probably not going to order it, I need to save money and don’t need more things anyway” then seeing what the profits are going to and almost gagging because now I am *definitely* not ordering it

#I do not advocate killing babies or supporting anything that aids in murder thank you very much #now if it was a pregnancy resource center #that would be a vastly different story #pro life #just for the tags

[beautiful-monsters-raging]

A site centered around false abortion clinics in the New York area. To encourage boosting, I'm going to take it in all the major NYC-centric fandoms I can think of.

#crisis pregnancy centers #pro choice #abortion resources #anti fetus fingerbangers #pro life shitheels #daredevil #jessica jones #the defenders #luke cage #iron fist #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #captain america the first avenger #spiderman #hawkeye #fantastic four #the punisher #iron man #misty knight #nyc #ghostbusters #doctor strange #moon knight #miles morales #peter parker #watchmen #nick fury #cloak and dagger #spawn #the magicians

[duking-out-life]

A Prayer for America's Young Women

A prayer for America's young women

Each January marks the anniversary of the Roe Vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States. Even though that decision was recently reversed, abortion is still legal and very much alive in many states. Thankfully, my home state of Tennessee is not one of them, and we can celebrate that the blood of innocent babies is no longer spilled upon our soil. But that doesn’t mean…

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#Abortion #abundant life #America&039;s young women #care-net.org #Encouragement for Life #inspiration #motherhood #Pregnancy resource centers #unplanned pregnancy

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Maybe you’ve noticed: there’s been a shift in how people and movements that are anti-trans present themselves, and it feels designed to make them more palatable to people who would otherwise recoil at arguments that position trans people as threats. They don’t hate trans people! They’re very concerned about them! Think of the risks! Think of the children!! If that language sounds familiar, it’s because the anti-abortion movement uses this same playbook. Just like a crisis pregnancy center might advertise itself as offering pre-natal care, counseling or free pregnancy tests, an anti-trans provider might offer “gender exploratory” therapy or claim to offer valuable information on the “harms” of transition. Just like reporters being too willing to parrot unsubstantiated, anti-choice claims to the greater public, anti-trans groups are using places like the New York Times—and the fact that many people within those spaces were already held anti-trans beliefs-- to spread misinformation and position their “experts” as the reliable voices on trans care. Quite contrary to articles that claim people are being rushed through transition, accessing gender affirming care remains difficult for most people, especially young people. There are a limited number of places that provide it (and, due to transphobic violence both digital and physical, some of the places that used to aren’t able to anymore), waiting lists, and a dozen other barriers to access. Not to mention that plenty of elements of transition, especially physical transition, require at least a letter from a therapist. And now, on top of that, you have healthcare providers and resources who seek only to discourage or pressure all trans and nonbinary folks into not transitioning. This is a recipe for trans folks, or the people helping them access care, to walk right into a trap, and enables ongoing, anti-trans bias more broadly. Here's a guide from Scarleteen co-director Sam Wall to help trans people, and especially, adults in the lives of trans young people, to identify legitimate — and illegitimate — sources of trans care.

#trans #trans resources #trans healthcare #transition #transgender

[unbidden-yidden]

By the way, for anyone who is still confused about messianics and why I have such a problem with them (as do the vast, vast majority of actual Jews - one of the few things we can virtually all agree on) think about it like this: they are like the Crisis Pregnancy Centers of the Jewish world.

CPCs deliberately market themselves in ways that imply that they provide actual medical care, pregnancy resources, or information on abortion, only to get their clients in a vulnerable situation and then accost them with forced-birther bullshit and massive guilt trips to convince them to keep their darling baby that I'm totally 100% sure will be the next Mozart if you only gave Jesus a chance!

Messianics do this by marketing themselves as observant, devout orthodoxim with deep Torah learning, mystical insights, and a unique perspective on living a life of mitzvot....... who happen to believe Yeshua was Ha-Moshiach, and worship him as a god, but this totally isn't avodah zarah because Yeshua told them so! Also *toot toot* the shofar to bring in our Sunday Sabbath!

It's fine to want to keep an unplanned pregnancy and it's fine to get an abortion. It's not fine to try to trick people into making a major decision that could ruin their lives.

Similarly, it's fine to be a Xtian just like it's fine to be a Jew. It's not fine to be a Xtian playing offensive dress-up as a Jew to trick Jews into worshipping Jesus.

[perplexedhedgehog]

Hey, I've seen a lot of people saying that you should support smaller-scale abortion facilities instead of spending on Planned Parenthood because, according to them, PP already has plenty of money.

While I totally support donating to local abortion care facilities, I think it's really dangerous to be spreading around misinformation about Planned Parenthood, so here are a list of reasons that Planned Parenthood is a really worthwhile resource right about now:

Planned Parenthood has a large legal fund and they know how to use it. Not only will they work on-the-ground to provide reproductive health services, they will work on the legislative level in every state to fight the legal battles that are about to become very fucking necessary. Donate directly to abortion services, yes - but if you want to protect the legality of abortion and the right to privacy in the doctor's office, Planned Parenthood's legal team will fight in the places where you, as an individual, cannot.

I've heard some people saying that Planned Parenthood actually does damage to the reproductive justice community because they "take up all the talking space" and then they'll say "well, abortion is only a small amount of what Planned Parenthood does" thus stigmatizing abortion. While I can't speak for every PP facility, in my experience during my volunteer trainings, THIS IS MISINFORMATION. Outside supporters of PP will say this ABOUT Planned Parenthood, but at my volunteer trainings the workers actually had us do spoken activities to de-stigmatize abortion for anyone who needed it. We were given multiple "abortion is good, actually" talks.

On that note, the things PP does aside from abortion are actually very important. One thing they do is distribute INFORMATION on a widespread scale. This information will often focus on important things to know about pregnancy health, when abortion might be needed, and communicative campaigns to spread abortion stories with specific participants' consent in order to de-stigmatize abortion and spread awareness.

A number of smaller "Pregnancy Crisis Centers" disguise themselves as abortion providers, but are really fundamentalist Christian centers in disguise. These centers will abuse and psychologically torture people who were planning on coming in for abortions. However, a Planned Parenthood is always what it says it will be. I support Planned Parenthood because I know exactly what my money is going to when I make donations.

If you do know of a smaller abortion facility that needs funding, by all means, donate! (Also if you go on PP's website you can choose a PP facility to fund directly, if you don't want your donation to go into their large legal fund.) But if you're supporting a smaller center, do make sure that they really are a legitimate abortion provider before you donate.

Let's not spread misinformation or be divisive, people! That will only hurt reproductive justice, in the end. If you want to support small-scale abortion care centers, absolutely do that. It will be very much needed in the coming months. But you can do that without dunking on Planned Parenthood and all that they do for reproductive rights, justice, and healthcare. It is entirely possible to be supportive of both.

#reproductive rights #pro choice #abortion #planned parenthood #roe v wade #sara.txt #pro-choice

[raz-b-rose]

The more stories I hear about people who started off pro-choice but then became pro-life, the more I believe that hearing pro-life arguments was only part of the reason. The other part is that the more unhinged pro-choicers, such as the ones who have been harassing churches, screaming at bystanders and tearing their clothes off, have been scaring many of their supporters away.

I agree that the pointing out the faults in their arguments is part of it. I think experiencing seeing a child first hand is the second most important (ultrasounds, graphic evidence pictures, ect)

The deplorable, childish, vile behavior of what is supposed to be people on the side of women would be a huge loss in motivation with standing with such people.

It would cause a lot of people to question what they really believe. After all, would people who are really pro-choice allow burning down resources for women choose to keep their child?

Pro-aborters would. Those who simply want to kill children would.

That is not giving women a choice, thats fear mongering and emotional manipulation.

I know a lot of people don't know this, but if by some chance a woman still chooses to abort after her appointment at a pregnancy center, they give her resources and help for post-abortion trauma. No judgment, just help.

Now thats, pro-women.

#raz answers #raz speaks out #pro life #anti abortion #pro abortion #pro choice #pregnancy resources #pregnancy resource centers #pro women #helping women

[lcrtl]

Warren's bill appears to be little more than a way to further prop up the abortion industry by scaring women away from people who are trying to help them.

#pregnancy resource centers

[kaijutegu]

Are you angry/scared/worried about potentially losing Roe vs. Wade? Do you want to help?

A lot of people are REALLY WORRIED about the leaked Alito draft, and for good reason. If Roe vs. Wade is overturned, many states will enact trigger laws that revoke the right to safe abortion access. But that doesn’t mean that safe abortions won’t be possible. They’ll just be harder to access.

Fortunately, we aren’t powerless. There are things we can do to help preserve the right to abortion and, if Roe falls, help people get the abortions they need.

Here are some actionable things you can do to help!

Donate to your local abortion fund.

This is a financial commitment, obviously, but these funds are vital to helping people access abortions. There are different types of funds. Practical funds help with transportation, housing, and other practical needs. Clinical funds help with paying for the procedure. Both types of funds are necessary and helpful!

If you’re in a state with protected abortion access, see if there’s a practical fund in your state that you can donate to. These funds make it possible for people for other states to afford travel and lodging in your state. You might also want to consider donating to funds in states or regions that have trigger laws, like the Yellowhammer Abortion Fund, which helps people in Mississippi, Alabama, and the Deep South.

To find an abortion fund in your state, you can google “abortion fund + your state” or open up this google doc that’s a maintained list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-aDTsZXnKhMcrDmtcD35aWs00gw5piocDhaFy5LKDY/preview?pru=AAABgKwRCFs*fZxkvUyYtHx7T4KXmRnOLA

There’s also https://abortionfunds.org/, but as of right now (2 May 2022, right after the SCOTUS leak happened), their website is down. Too much traffic!

Volunteer with a hotline.

As of writing this, a lot of abortion fund websites are completely overwhelmed. Lots of people are rightfully upset and looking for some way to help. Many of these funds have hotlines that you can help out directly from your own phone! Google “abortion fund + your state (or your region) + hotline” and see what comes up. These hotlines are going to be SWAMPED soon and many orgs are going to be onboarding volunteers very quickly to help deal with the onslaught.

Donate to grassroots causes. 

I love Planned Parenthood as much as the next gal, but donating to them isn’t actually going to help as much right now as donating to an abortion fund. Smaller, grassroots networks are going to be more effective at allocating resources to the people who need it most. Independent clinics are also going to need substantial help. Independent clinics provide the majority of abortion care in the US, and many are the only clinics operating in hostile states. Check out https://keepourclinics.org/ if you’re interested in donating.

Make a list of resources.

There are a lot of people out there who aren’t going to have the time or energy or emotional bandwidth to deal with this dumpster fire. If you have the capacity to do so, then maintain a file somewhere with the following information:

- any abortion funds that serve your area with their contact info- email and phone and links

- any abortion hotlines in your area

- national care hotlines, ESPECIALLY RAINN because this is going to be really, really hard on survivors

-a list of crisis pregnancy centers in your area, clearly marked with their names, contact info, and primary links. Make sure that these are highlighted in a way that separates them from the actual abortion providers because these centers are highly predatory and manipulate people who are distressed and confused. If somebody has access to that list and know who’s operating in an area, it might help them avoid these places!

Have this file ready to go so that you can share it with people who are overwhelmed!

Help the safe havens.

Losing Roe feels inevitable at this point. It might not be, but the world is terrifying. However, some states are safe havens and will maintain abortion access, regardless of what SCOTUS eventually decides. Practical access funds in these states will need help because they will help people traveling from unsafe states to safe states. Refer to this map: https://reproductiverights.org/maps/what-if-roe-fell/

Look for funds in states that are blue or yellow. This means they have expanded access or protection if Roe falls. But be sure to hover over and look at the summary of the protection– for example, Florida has abortion protection, but they just passed a 15-week ban. That’s basically protection in name only!

If you’re not sure which practical fund you’d like to support, I highly suggest the Midwest Access Coalition. MAC is based in Chicago and helps people from all over the Midwest come to the city for reproductive healthcare. A lot of the Midwest is really hostile to abortion, so MAC can help a lot of people. But there are many, many others!

In the coming days and weeks, there will be more to do. There will be marches, protests, and other organized action. But right now, tonight, these are things you can look into doing.

#abortion #reproductive rights #reproductive healthcare

[bulldyke-rider]

In another universe, people are saying men were designed to work and then die because their body strength and small, quick and easy contributions to reproduction makes them ideal for being worked to death.

But I had to be born in the one where every variety of woman believes, in some form, men were built to overpower us.

Coulda been born into a world where men haul lumber and then we kill them off when they become useless, but instead, I was born into a world where even feminist women cry about not being as good at weightlifting.

Coulda been born into the world where women's bodies were seen as the centers of creation and men were seen as empty and incapable of creation. Coulda been born into the world where men are seen as existing for women, less valuable. The world where a man is killed for not giving his wife a daughter. The world where all gods are female, or a world with no gods because women are right there being the creator. Coulda been born into the world where man is divorced from God and has to go through his wife rather than the other way around because woman is closer to God in heaven by being God on earth. The one where women outliving men in harsh conditions is testament to the fact that it's better for men to die than use up our resources. The world where women are seen as natural leaders by leading their children. The world where lineage is purely matriarchal. The world where only the most fit and good looking men even get the chance to reproduce because male's role in reproduction is an expendable cheap resource, so you only need the most fit men. The world where women are choosing partners because of this. The world where men are the ones questioning their worth because their looks have been called to question for thousands of years, not ours. The world where women are described as "visual creatures" with our superior color vision to back it up.

Or I could've been born into an equal society where we don't get philosophical about muscle mass and pregnancy and small physical differences.

But no, had to be born not only into a world where men have warped the value of women, but also the world where like every woman buys into it and believes the bullshit.