This is why I am pro-choice. This is why I am a feminist. This is what I stand for.
Culturally-diversified biracial girl with
a small diamond nose ring and a pretty smile poses besides the words “Women Deserve Better”.
and I almost let her non-threatening grin begin to infiltrate my psyche until I read the unlikely small print at the bottom of the ad: Sponsored by the US Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities and the Knights of Columbus
On a bus in a city with a population of 553,000, 4 teenage mothers on the bus with me, 1 Latina woman with 3 children under 3 and no signs of a daddy.
One sixteen year old black girl standing in 22-degree weather with only a sweater a book bag and a bassinette, with an infant that ain’t even four weeks yet tell me that Yes …. Women do deserve better.
Women deserve better than public transportation rhetoric from the same people who won’t give that teenage mother a ride to the next transit. Won’t let you talk to their kids about safer sex Have never had to listen as the door SLAMS behind the man who adamantly says, “That shit” ain’t his leaving her to wonder how she’ll raise this kid.
Women deserve better than the 300 dollars TANF and AFC will provide that family of three or the 6 dollar an hour job at KFC with no benefits for her new baby or the college degree she may never see because you can’t have infants at the university
Women deserve better than lip service paid for by politicians who have no alternatives to abortion though I am sure right this moment one of their seventeen year old daughters is sitting in a clinic lobby sobbing quietly and anonymously praying parents don’t find out or will be waiting for mom to pick her up because research shows that out-of-wedlock childbirth doesn’t look good on political polls and Daddy ain’t having that.
Women deserve better than backwards governmental policies that don’t want to pay for welfare for kids or health care for kids or child care for kids Don’t want to pay living wages to working mothers, Don’t want to make men who only want to be last night’s lovers responsible for the semen they lay.
Flat out don’t want to pay for SHIT but want to control the woman who’s having it. Acting outraged at abortion. Well I’m outraged that they want us to believe that they believe that women deserve better.
The Vatican won’t prosecute pedophile priests But I decide I’m not ready for motherhood and it’s condemnation for me These are the same people who won’t support national condom distribution to prevent teenage pregnancy. But women deserve better.
Women deserve better than back-alley surgeries that leave our wombs barren and empty. Deserve better than organizations bearing the name of land-stealing racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains with no money to give these women while balding middle-aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people’s babies
So maybe women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into office Propaganda and lies to get into panties to get out of court to get out of paying child support
Get the fuck out of our decisions and give us back our voice Women do deserve better Women deserve choice
Sonya Renee - What Women Deserve
I will forever reblog this poem
Chills. This is perfect.
Important. Important. Important. So fucking important.
