If you're really pro-life you'd be pro-choice, because "education about contraception" plus "access to easy, legal, and safe abortion" has been proven to reduce the number of abortions. "Pro-choice" does NOT mean "pro-abortion," it means you're in favor of education and the right of uterus owners to choose if they keep a baby or not.

Also remember ( Read more... )

People keep telling me the USA is a first-world nation. These people are either delusional or have no fucking idea what the difference is ( Read more... )

Electricity is vital in our modern world. I know of nobody, save perhaps homeless people, who don't rely on it for their everyday life. It keeps our cold food cold, and our frozen food frozen. A great many people have electric heating, and rely on electricity to keep them warm in the cold winters. Most people these days cook either with microwave ( Read more... )

Things I think ought to be considered basic human rights ( Read more... )

I felt this bit from a meme post deserved its own post ( Read more... )

While I agree with the sentiment of #bornthiswayfriday, that gay and trans people are born this way, and it's not a choice, I also can't help but feel like this argument isn't going to convince the real hard-line anti-GLBTs that we should be accepted. After all, there are lots of people born with deformities, deformities that get corrected when ( Read more... )