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Abortion -- Pro-Choice Essay

The following essay is separated into six parts, addressing concerns and opinions about the abortion debate. Rude or hateful comments, propaganda, and spam will be hidden. I. The important definitions of “pro-life” and “pro-choice.” I feel this needs to be cleared up within the abortion debate. Misrepresentations of the pro-life and pro-choice positions is a root cause of abortion propaganda. A general summation of a pro-lifer's views: Life begins at conception. A fetus is a person. The unborn child is human. Abortion is not safe. Roe v. Wade should be overturned. The government should not fund abortions. Abortion sho

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Why Women Turn To Feminism

Because you do not love us as we want to love ourselves. Because of the scarlet letters you embroider on our chests as we sleep on yours. Because you pull the pigtails from puberty and squeeze mothers and prostitutes from the girls we really are. Because Disney fooled us: we awoke, sweet-sixteen, embittered with no kiss, no carriage, no prince. Because the heroines of our youth taught us the plastic passivity of our sex. Because we couldn't be factory-made beauty too. Because we have spent too long courting tears and making life-rafts of our pillows. Because we want the power to reject our presence, our affection - even our

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13 reasons to meme

~pansydiv (https://www.deviantart.com/pansydiv) tagged me in this 13 question meme post :'D 1. a song that helped you through a difficult time? i cant think of a recent one but Starlight and Resistance by Muse were my go-to's 2. something you're good at which isn't necessarily a "useful life skill" but makes you happy anyway? i can pick up accents/dialects pretty easily :p 3. aeroplanes: yay or nay? im 50/50, nay bc i have health issues that restrict me from flying often yay bc i love flying. in fact i plan to get a private licence in the future hehe 4. if you were an animal based on your personality.. which animal? i'm a stoned raccoon according to my

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Abortion -- Pro-Choice Essay

The following essay is separated into six parts, addressing concerns and opinions about the abortion debate. Rude or hateful comments, propaganda, and spam will be hidden. I. The important definitions of “pro-life” and “pro-choice.” I feel this needs to be cleared up within the abortion debate. Misrepresentations of the pro-life and pro-choice positions is a root cause of abortion propaganda. A general summation of a pro-lifer's views: Life begins at conception. A fetus is a person. The unborn child is human. Abortion is not safe. Roe v. Wade should be overturned. The government should not fund abortions. Abortion sho

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only the undefined are infinite

​limits not anymore. as we approach the start/finish line, i turn on an axis of my own making. i bleed into language like a storm lets rain, untamed, bound by none. when we're gone, they'll tell stories about us, and it will all begin like this. they are a definition unto themselves. derivatives on that first day of classes they asked me what my religion was— i smirked and said, differential calculus. because i wonder about the slope of your cheekbones, the curvature of your hands in every vase of flowers you've carried and all the notebooks you've filled up. there's nothing heretical about this, loving girls as much as boys

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sepulcher

your body is jerusalem, he’ll tell you coveted first, then plundered. – you’re my backwater bedroom martyr, he’ll tell you as he nails your wrists to bedposts, seizes your tongue like a white flag, pulls stones from your parapets – little sister, i’ll tell you the children’s crusade is lost: and you’ll kneel at his sword and know you were always his to take

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