Police officer: I've been a police officer for over ten years and sometimes when I respond to a domestic call I say to the mother (who is the victim) 'how can you let your children go through this?'
Me: How many times in 10 years have a you said to the perpetrating father 'how could you put the mother of your children and your children through this?'
Police officer: *Silence*
And we wonder why survivors don't want to go the police and perpetrators feel permission to continue to abuse.... Gender double standards around parenting (low expectations for man as parents, high expectations for women as parents) is real and has serious, and sometimes, deadly impact. #StopBlamingMothers #StopIgnoringFathers @SafeandTogether https://t.co/LyazeZzB7e
@B33ds89@_nomadic_soul The trauma of circumcision is real for babies but that doesn't negate pregnancy and labour pain. If anything it should make you more empathic to the distress of others.
@DrCalumMiller Did you actually read the reasons? Lack of access to care, needing to raise funds to cover it, domestic violence, etc. These are all things that are SOCIETAL problems that should be addressed so women don't have to get later term abortions.
This is powerful. This is courage. This is heartbreaking.
Democratic senator @EvaBurchAZ announced on a floor speech that she needs an abortion. She shared her story and gave remarks about how cruel Arizonaβs laws are to women.
CNN aired a short clip last night, but itβs important for folks to hear all of her remarks. Please take the time & consider sharing.
@JessupShannon Hold and rock or walk with her for as long as needed. I didn't realize at the time what that might have meant to my mom, it was just something I did. But as a parent decades later, I realized why my mom was so thankful.
@JessupShannon My sister is 14 years younger than me. She had horrid "colic". My mom would get to breaking holding her (but she did) so as soon as I got home from school, I would take over if it was a bad day. I would put my headphones on, put my discman on (yes I'm old), and...