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The Supreme Court’s draft had commented that there’s a “low domestic supply of infants” but yet there’s simultaneously an active push to distract from our stillbirth rates in the US.
1 out of 160 babies are stillborn in the US. That’s 47,000 infants a year. For black mothers/gestational parents, that rate increases to 1 in 80. Stillborn babies are wanted and their parents face insurmountable grief from these losses.
Parents like me who have lost children to stillbirth had presented a bill called the Shine for Autumn Act to Congress last year that would require monitoring of stillbirth statistics in the US in hopes to reduce the rate of preventable stillbirth, and all of the dissenting votes in the House were Republican, including big name pro-lifers:
As well as the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2022, which was introduced on March 9, 2022 and aims to add stillbirth and stillbirth prevention to the language of Title V, the largest piece of gestational health legislation in US history- which is likely to face the same dissent when it comes to a vote.
Let these facts continue to radicalize you. There aren’t any protections currently in place for infants transitioning earthside from the womb, and there isn’t any intention from these extremists to put them in place. Parents who have lost babies to TFMR and/or stillbirth are screaming from the rooftops, begging the government to save our wanted children and they’re clutching their pearls over some embryos smaller than an eraser head.
This has never been about babies. It’s about control.
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war and hate on planet venus
suck my blood and kill my penus
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GOD I wish the minimum wage was a living wage.
I’m not flipping burgers, I’m cleaning litterboxes and doing basic vet care like checking weights, administering medicine, bathing, using IVs, keeping records, making lists, doing photography, and way way more. But the point is even if I was just cleaning litterboxes… I love the work. I wish I could pay rent. Shouldn’t I be able to clean litterboxes and feed cats who were rescued from the streets and do that fulfilling wonderful work without wondering where I’m going to live?
Shouldn’t someone be able to flip burgers, make art, clean up trash, care for the oceans, teach your children, or rescue animals without being forced to choose between their job and their bills?
What if I don’t WANT to climb the ladder and use my degree and search for high stress high pay jobs in order to live? What if I want the high stress job of seeing a kitten crashing below survivable temperature and bringing them back from the brink of death, knowing that I’m the only thing standing between this homeless, unwanted kitten and an early grave?
Shouldn’t that be enough? Shouldn’t I be able to afford food and rent by doing that?
I don’t want to work at a vet office that can give me steady pay increases. I want to work here, with cats who have no owners, nursing them back to health and helping pick their forever home. I want the infrastructure to support me in doing that. I want the laws to say I can and have programs in place to make it so my shelter CAN support me. I want rent to reflect wages. I want wages to reflect rent.
I want to help the world and be able to survive doing it. I want to thrive doing it. I want that for everyone.
More than that; we should have a universal basic income so that people can do what they love without worrying over whether it will let them afford food and rent at all. Shouldn’t people be able to be artists, to be writers, to be stay-at-home single parents who put all their energy into raising awesome kids? Shouldn’t the ability to live a happy life be guaranteed completely independent of what work you’re doing or how much measurable profit you’re producing by the metrics of capitalism?
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sableleatherywingsopeninthe711:
sableleatherywingsopeninthe711:
there is literally so much drama happening inside of a lava lamp
Yeah I’ll reblog that
as if you had a choice
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Such a large part of therapy depends on having some control over your life! Therapy isn’t just talking to someone and they make everything go away. They give you tools to master your problems! And if you can’t use them, they aren’t of any use. And it’s the same for meds! If they let you be more productive or creative but you have no outlet for that, the end result is the same. If your meds help you see the positives but there are no positives to see, you won’t notice the difference.
Sometimes you get the wrong tools. Sometimes there’s no space to use them. Sometimes the hardware store sucks. Try again with different tools, in different locations, at a new store.
THE SAME GOES FOR MEDICATION!! I tried meds as a teenager and they were powerless to help much due to my living situation being horrible. I thought that meant medication didn’t work for me. Now that I’m out of that situation and trying agajn I can really see a difference.
I don’t know if any of you had the same experience as me, but I tried therapy when I was a teenager living in an abusive household and thought it was a waste of time. Ultimately my biggest problems (dad) were beyond my control and no amount of coping would make them better. Now that I’m an adult with actual control over my life and don’t live with my dad anymore therapy is MUCH more helpful.
If any of you had bad experiences with therapy when you were younger it may be worth it to try again now.
Also if your parents are part of the problem, they likely will be the one picking your therapist. Which means that, like me, you might end up going to a bunch of Christian “counselors” who recommend prayer and reading your Bible, or other unhelpful types. So therapy not working for you as a teen does not mean it won’t ever work for you.
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eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.
no one needs to add “sounds fake but ok”, “no”, “well, not me”, “impossible”, etc. to this post. and i’d rather you not.
one day you think: I want to die.
and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book.
and I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun
I want a cleaner kitchen
I want a better job
I want to live somewhere else
I want to live
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idk I think this new era of Disney systemically poaching non-white cultures to be made into Representation Movies all directed by some white guy named like Laird Bannister III is kinda fucked up and sinister
For everyone saying “we need more movies that are LatAm people telling their own stories!” I have great news that every country south of the United States has its own film industry
love the implication that c*nada doesn’t have its own film industry
I was talking about Latin American countries specifically but also you’re right it doesn’t
As someone in Animation from one of said Latin American countries: yes we do! We DO have industries! But the combination of imperialism, colonisation and multiple social and economic crises has left us in a state where THERE’S NO MONEY. Our industry is used mostly as outsourced labor for giants such as Disney. No, your favourite movies and series aren’t fully made in LA. A lot of the bulk of the work is made by us! We’re the cheap, overworked labor that doesn’t even get mentioned by name in the credits!
‘‘But Ami! What can we do?’‘ Because of many reasons, we ALSO don’t have access to fundraiser platforms, we’re geo blocked by kickstarted, indiegogo and such. Buuuuuuut we ARE still pushing and pulling! We ARE still getting out as much work as we can! Check out this incomplete list of animation studios! Support this latin american fundraising website, idea.me ! Spread awareness of Global South countries’s state of cheap labor exploited by the first world! Support collectives like Third World Artists Collectives and its website with resources! We’re here!
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You had my interest but now you have my attention
