MR to John Oliver for his bit on Last Week tonight regarding abortion laws
Posted Feb 23, 2016, 4:00 AM UTC
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The 13 year old rape victim who was effectively forced to motherhood made me so mad.
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I cried thinking about it
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Me tooooo. :(
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To make it even sadder, Texas is one of the 31 states where a Rapist can sue for custody/visitation. I've been crying off and on all day thinking about that poor, poor girl.
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If you haven't seen it and live in the US, here is the official YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRauXXz6t0Y
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I don't suppose you know of any mirrors?
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I wish I did! Have you tried Googling Last Week Tonight and your country?
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u/fanzybellz helped me out with a proxy. ^_^
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Fantastic! That was the best I could do before I got coffee in me ;)
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https://www.solarmovie.ph/tv/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-2014/season-3/episode-2/
It's the whole episode though.
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I love this guy
Edit: Oh god I read the comments on the video, now am super angry and sad
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I read the top comment, upvoted and stayed away. The comments in r/entertainment over TSwift giving Kesha money after her verdict were all the comments I could handle for the day.
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Those comments made me sad. And this video made me sad. I'm pro choice and the SO and I had the chat of "what if I got pregnant this early in our relationship "... and it makes me sad to think I with many others may not really have a choice in he matter at this rate.
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Lordy I can only imagine
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You should get the AlienTube plug in (for Chrome? It might be out there for more browsers). It hide the YouTube comments and only shows reddit comments.
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It is often better, but not always. It really depends on what sub the video had been linked from. Some of them can be just as bad.
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Oh cool, thank you. Nothing makes me angrier faster than a YouTube comment section
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Thank you for sharing this. As a girl born and raised in Texas, it absolutely breaks my heart to see this. Though I don't know what I would do if I got pregnant, I don't feel it is in my say to delegate whether someone else could. And for God's sake, women will find a means to get abortions even if it does mean finding something around the house. I'm glad Obama has been working to get rid of abstinence-only education. I think above all else, if we had a comprehensive program and education about contraception, this issue would be so much smaller. I was given a very minimal education about sex in schools and had to learn most on my own with tons of research.
It sickens me to think that all this is done for "women's health", but I call complete and utter bullshit. If those that passed these laws even cared a little, they would want women to have safe, clean access to these procedures. I honestly can't believe this is still an issue. They think they are doing us a solid when in all actuality, they are shortening the leash they have on American women.
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The part that tipped me into a crying rage was when the nurse was describing a conversation with a woman who could not travel the large distance required to get to a clinic and asked: "What if I tell you what I have in my kitchen cabinet and you tell me what I can do."
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I feel the same. That part of the story came right after the one that got me crying, so I was already upset by then.
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I feel like what is so flipping frustrating is that I do all the things! For almost a decade now, I write! I march! I vote! I write checks and STILL they find ways to keep chipping away at access to safe and legal abortion. I'm so tired of begin on the loosing side of this awful war, I don't know what else to do. They're going to make it illegal in my lifetime and there's nothing I can do to stop them. :(
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I just wrote a long final paper about fact and fiction in the information that women receive about abortion's health risks. I'm so glad the doctor brought up that there is no supported link between abortion and breast cancer!
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The gif is something different. I found it while trying to find something appropriate for the post. But, if there were ever a gif to be this sub's mascot, I think this is it!
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Anyone have a link where I can watch this in Australia?
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Will fanzybellz' comment here work for you?
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I don't live in the US, and I have almost unrestricted access to an abortion if I need/want one.
I feel so sad for you American ladies. I get so angry when I read and hear about the arcane restrictions you have to endure. I want to make these law makers see sense! I want them to take a look at themselves and step back and realise what they are doing.
It's 2016, how do women not have complete bodily autonomy yet?! How can we not make decisions about our reproductive health without middle aged men stepping in and telling us what we can and can't do?
Do pro life protesters realise that they really aren't saving a life? Do they protest for paid parental leave? Do they protest for more affordable health care? Do they protest for a liveable minimum wage? Do they protest for more affordable higher education? They don't, they protest so an unwanted child can be born into a world that has all of the issues above.
Good luck ladies, I hope that whatever happens, you stay safe and have the right to make the decisions you need to.
I'd love to know how many pro-lifers are currently raising adopted unwanted children.
The most frustrating part is how many "pro-lifers" actually get abortions.
I read somewhere that the pro lifers don't really see it as protecting a life as much as they see it as punishing sluts, which I think it's largely fair.
In that context of makes sense that they get abortions in a twisted sort of way. They don't see themselves as sluts for getting pregnant but rather misfortunate young women in a bad situation.
Is easy to judge an abstraction, in this case The Slut, its much harder to judge a real person.
"The only moral abortion is my abortion"
That's what makes it so frustrating! It's like people who don't realize that they aren't in traffic, they are traffic. There's no such thing as a special snowflake, we're all just here doing our best to be happy. I wish more people could look beyond themselves to realize that. :(
Ditto, I'm not in the USA and i get so worried that the whole world will turn into The Handmaids Tale over abortion rights.
Up until he got kicked out, I honestly thought Tony Abbott would introduce something similar to these laws. I went into work the day the news broke that he'd been voted out dancing!