13-year-old self-aborts using pencil
The girl had no legal access to abortion in Pennsylvania, where her parents must consent. This is the direct consequence of anti-choice zealots: taking away what dignity, respect, and alternatives left were left to a 13 year old who is being controlled, manipulated, and raped by someone more than twice her age. Way to go “pro-lifers”, what an awesome accomplishment: empowering rapists like Michael Lisk over 13 year old girls, leading her to desperately jab herself with a pencil.
What happens when safe abortions are illegal.
“this girl needed a safety net, and she did not have one.”
She did not have one.
This is what anti-choicers are pushing for. This is what happens when people are desperate, and when the making of their own choices are criminalized. This was someone who was already likely felling like she was unable to talk to the people that were supposed to be looking after her, being a rape victim and all the social stigma and baggage that can come with that. And this scared fucking little kid had the option to birth another kid and deal with the shame that would undeniably get heaped on her for the rest of her life, or try what she did in a last ditch effort to hold on to what little semblance of a normal life she could. Take a long hard fucking look “pro-lifers”. This is exactly what happens when the policies you’re pushing for are put in place - people fucking die. End.
i don’t want to live on this planet anymore. this is why abortion should be safe an legal.
Also, as the statistics in the article point out, in Europe (where abortion is legal and contraception widely available), the rate of abortions among women is lower than the US.
(Source: pro-abortionorfuckoff, via thechocolatebrigade)
