"I mean, do a group of old white ladies govern what goes on with my balls? No. They don’t. But this is what happens in America. Old white men who believe in an invisible man in the sky get to say what goes on in all women’s vaginas. The last time I tried to make anything happen inside a woman’s vagina I didn’t even get past the whole “taking her to dollar-beer and bingo night at the bar by my house” thing. Swing and a miss, there. And hey – that was just one vagina. In their case, they are trying to control ALL OF THE VAGINAS. Who do they think they are? Prince circa Purple Rain?"

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Ned Hepburn of Death and Taxes magazine sums up the situation in Indiana, where all abortions past 22 weeks were banned last week.

You can see part of the state legislature’s chilling debate here, when a GOP rep says there can’t be an exception for rape or incest, because women might lie about being raped to get an abortion. Democratic Rep. Linda Lawson’s response, while tear-jerking, is priceless.

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Why do these thing keep coming back to cissexism? Not all women have a vagina, not all women with a vagina have a uterus, not all people with a vagina and/or uterus are women. (Not to mention not every cis woman with a vagina and a uterus is capable of having children in their lifetime). It keeps feeling to me like the opposition (to such laws) has the same target as the support - the idea that women only exist in the way that they can get pregnant, carry a fetus to term, and give birth. Like the opposition is as inconsiderate to the realities of women (as in, that women are not a homogeneous group) as the support.

(via moleend)