This post is about two Twitter Lists that come off my @RebelliousVal account, which exists in conjunction with the @RebelliousMag publication of Karen Hawkins. More on that in the tweets below!
My When Help is Needed Twitter List began with wanting to have a list of the organizations that help survivors of sexual assault, in response to the 2014 Chibok #BringBackOurGirls kidnapping of teenage female school students in Nigeria, a list I initially compiled, in a way, in a May 2014 Typepad blog post, Organizations committed to healing women impacted by violence. The list became all the more important to have when the following month brought an especially insensitive and thoughtless column on campus rape by George Will, to which I responded with my June 2014 Typepad blog post, Reader feedback for ‘Colleges become the victims of progressivism’. The list itself has expanded to include organizations addressing other forms of abuse, and so the list is described as, “Orgs that help survivors of sexual abuse and assault, domestic violence, human trafficking, suicide”.
The Roe v Wade 1-22-73 Twitter List covers some of the same organizations as “When Help is Needed”, once I noticed the growing push to eliminate the law that ensures the medical procedure for ending a pregnancy is accessible and available to every American. Despite the fact that the law doesn’t force anyone to have an abortion and that anyone pregnant can freely decide to carry a pregnancy to term — not a right in every country around the world — the United States is full of men, those for whom it is impossible to become pregnant and who have completely different bodies physiologically from women and therefore usually have no idea of the many various complexities of pregnancy and how difficult and sometimes impossible it can be for a pregnancy to be carried to term — for BOTH valid medical or non-medical reasons — but are still completely comfortable writing laws seeking to end this medical procedure for anyone pregnant, in open defiance of basic female medical science and ignoring the body agency of the individual — apparently now only allowed for men in the U.S. Constitution? — and without knowledge of obstetrics and without accounting for the vast variety of circumstances that can result in a pregnancy, which clearly can come from non-consensual as well as consensual sexual intercourse, and think that re-defining abortion as murder will somehow not bring about the dangerous outcomes that ran rampant in the decades prior to Roe v Wade’s passing, which included privileged members of society still having access to the medical procedure, while those without such privilege would usually DIE, by either their own hand in an ill-informed and fatal attempt to self-abort or by the hand of an inexperienced/unethical/unlicensed abortion practitioner! We had stopped the madness in 1973. And now we must do it again here in the 21st Century, with the many men — and even some women! — who think they know better, that ridding the USA of safe, accessible abortion will somehow make this country a better and so-called “holier” place. In reality, it just makes this country a more dangerous place for women. This is the same historical amnesia that is fueling the movement against vaccines. The late 20th Century fixed and healed so many things; why are some in the early 21st Century so doggedly determined to destroy so many of these solutions and reverse this social, medical, economic, and cultural progress??
See both lists as they automatically update below. And also see the Wakelet below them for saved articles and news stories.
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Seven years ago @ChiefRebelle had an idea her sister could be a social media asset to her monthly online periodical @RebelliousMag and created @RebelliousVal! Val came up with a plan (see below) and The Tweets Continue!!
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— Rebellious Val (@RebelliousVal) April 9, 2019
