Source: Pew Research Center

Share who say abortion should be legal or illegal in all or most cases (2017) Source: Pew Research Center

61% of Americans believe that fewer than 24% of women in the U.S. will have an abortion in their lifetime? Source: Vox / Perry-Undem Poll, February 2016

62% of Americans believe giving birth is less safe or about as safe as an abortion. In fact, getting an abortion is much safer than giving birth. 0.27 per 100,000 women die from abortions, whereas 17.8 per 100,000 women die from giving birth. Source: Vox / Perry-Undem Poll, Februrary 2016.

Abortion Mortality Rate: 0.27 per 100,000 women Birth Mortality Rate: 17.8 per 100,000 women Source: CDC, 2011.

State-by-State Impact of Overturning Roe Executive Support for Abortion Sources: Center for Reproductive Rights and NARAL Pro-Choice America

State-by-State Impact of Overturning Roe Legislative Support for Abortion Sources: Center for Reproductive Rights and NARAL Pro-Choice America

State-by-State Impact of Overturning Roe Protections/Ban of Abortion Rights if Roe is Overturned Sources: Center for Reproductive Rights and NARAL Pro-Choice America

State-by-State Impact of Overturning Roe Unconstitutional Restrictions on Abortion Sources: Center for Reproductive Rights and NARAL Pro-Choice America

Our Bodies, Our Rights. Reproductive Health Is a Human Right. One in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime. Sixty one percent of abortions are obtained by mothers. We need safe and healthy communities including an elimination of stereotype based services. We need culturally competent providers who speak our languages. HIV and STD and AIDS information and services. We need drug and alcohol treatment services. Artist: Meredith Stern, 2014

GOP: Abortion is bad. Women: Ok. We'll use birth control. GOP: That's bad too. Women: ... GOP: I mean, if ya'll could just like die that'd be ideal! ~ @ejdickson [Image of a page from the book The Secret History of Wonder Woman": "In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has 'the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception': If a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex.'"]

Americans Views on Abortion, by Religious Group - % of U.S. adults in each religious group who say that in all or most cases, abortion should be...legal/illegal Source: Pew Research Center

"Think of the life of the child! (when you make her have a baby at 14)" ~ Sarah Silverman

[click on this image to find a short clip and analysis of recent attempts to control women's sexual and reproductive behavior]

"Mike Huckabee has decided to end his presidential campaign but I think he should be forced to carry it to full term." ~ Bryan Donaldson (@TheNardvark)

Guerrilla Girls demand a return to traditional values on abortion. Before the mid-19th century, abortion in the first few months of pregnancy was legal. Even the Catholic Church did not forbid it until 1869."

Reporter: "What do you think makes a woman want to have an abortion?" Representative Jim Buchy: "Well, there's probably a lot of ... I'm not a woman so I'm thinking, if I'm a woman, why would I want to get ... some of it has to do with economics. A lot of it has to do with economics. I don't know, I have never ... It's a question I have never thought about." Rachel Maddow: "Why would a woman want an abortion? 'I have never about it,' says the man who is doing his best to ban abortion in…

Is the so-called “pro-life” movement really about reducing abortion rates – or is it just about shaming people? This comic reveals the truth.

Share with your friends...

"Instead of saying abortion should be available at least in cases of rape, we should say, abortion should be available at least in cases where a pregnant person doesn't want to be pregnant." ~ Lizz...

In the dedication to her new book, My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem wrote the following dedication to a doctor who illegally performed an abortion for her: "He said: 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.' Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death: I’ve done the best I could with my life. This book is for you."

"You can't stop abortion" Photo credit: Liora K.

"It's a choice you made. Don't take it out on the baby!" [click on this image to find a short clip and analysis of efforts to control women's sexual and reproductive behaviors]

Untitled,1998, This painting comes from a series on the topic of unsafe abortions and was created in response to a Portuguese referendum on hugely restrictive abortion laws. The artworks influenced public opinion, helping a change in the law to protect women’s rights. Artist: Paula Rego

Abstinence-only-until-marriage programs are statistically ineffective. Studies show they reinforce gender stereotypes, undermine pubic health programs, violate adolescent human rights by withholding accurate medical information, and they don't actually delay sexual activity. Source: Guttmacher Institute / Did You Know?

High Teenage Birthrate Associated with Abstinence-Only Education and Low Income Source: CDC.gov / SIECUS.org / Census.gov

States where Sex and HIV Education, If Provided, Don't Have to Be Medically Accurate Source: Guttmacher Institute

We're a ragtag team of three public sociologists hell bent on promoting video & pop culture to teach sociology. Visit us at www.thesociologicalcinema.com.

We're a ragtag team of three public sociologists hell bent on promoting video & pop culture to teach sociology. Visit us at www.thesociologicalcinema.com.

Increased funding for abstincence-only programs threatens sex education in the U.S. Appropriations by fiscal year (in millions) Source: Guttmacher Institute

Sex Education in the States

"Abstinence" By Asaf Hanuka

Tags: abortion/reproduction , historical sociology , government/the state , politics/election/voting , theory , violence , weber , civil liberties, democracy, melissa harris-perry, social contract...

Employees should have the right to choose what forms of contraceptives their health plans provide, based on their religious beliefs. (40.1% strongly disagree) Employers should not have the right to prevent certain forms of preventative healthcare, including contraceptives, from being provided in their health plans based on their religious beliefs. (37.4% strongly agree) Source: S. Culp, / Reuters

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.

The GOP's Idea of Birth Control Experts. Really? Raise Your Hand If You've Ever Been Pregnant.

Panel Chosen to Discuss Viagra Distribution

Tags: abortion/reproduction , discourse/language , gender , government/the state , inequality , contraception, feminism, fertility, slut-shaming, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2012 Length: 2:44 Access: Hulu...

"I will not be your father!"

The Princess Bride: I can't control my reproductive health because of my boss's religious beliefs. Vizzini: Of course! That's called "Freedom of Religion" Inigo Montoya: You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Tags: abortion/reproduction , discourse/language , gender , government/the state , inequality , contraception, feminism, fertility, slut-shaming, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2012 Length: 2:44 Access: Hulu...

The only thing better than contraception is patriotic contraception.

[click on this image to find a clip illustrating the cultural ritual known as a "purity ball," during which time girls take a pledge of abstinence (i.e., "purity") in front of their family and friends. How might Foucault make sense of purity balls?]

Tags: abortion/reproduction , discourse/language , gender , government/the state , inequality , contraception, feminism, fertility, slut-shaming, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2012 Length: 2:44 Access: Hulu...

Tags: abortion/reproduction , discourse/language , gender , government/the state , inequality , contraception, feminism, fertility, slut-shaming, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2012 Length: 2:44 Access: Hulu...

Percent distribution of women aged 15-44 years, by whether they are using contraception and by reasons for nonuse and methods used

Broad Consensus on Contraception Coverage, But Public More Divided over Wedding Services for Same-Sex Couples, Bathrooms for Transgender People "If you had to choose, which comes closest to your view?" Source: Pew Research Center

Artist: Will McPhail

Air National Guard members Terran Echegoyen-McCabe & Christina Luna recently posted to FB several breastfeeding pic while wearing fatigues—which they do all the time on Fairchild Airforce Base in Spokane, WA. Their pics have prompted an outcry. There are no military rules against breastfeeding in uniform; yet one FB comment compared the images to “urinating & defecating.”

Image No: ND-1-92 Title: Inuit woman nursing two babies, Alaska. Date: [ca. 1903-1908] Format of original: glass negative : b&w ; 8" x 10" Photographer/Illustrator: Lomen Brothers, Nome, Alaska / Dobbs, B.B. Remarks: Photograph caption reads "Mikininnie kow kow". Woman wearing beaded necklaces and bracelets; has Tattoo/markings on chin. Pot/container in front of woman. Subject(s): Inuit - Children / Inuit - Social life and customs / Inuit - Women / Inuit - Beadwork / Tattooing Order this…

"Nursing?! This is a shopping mall! We can't allow women to brazenly display their breasts!!"

"Billboards of half naked female-bodied people everywhere: but breastfeeding in public is very offensive."

"Protest against discrimination of breastfeeding, June 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark" Women Working for Women is a project for public spaces that recovers the women's historic memory through portraits of female personalities who have forged change and fought to improve the situation for their gender. The project also includes visual registers based on press images of the female memory in public protest. Each image is the result of an investigation - Artist: Women Working for Women

Lysol's "Love-quiz...For married folks only," 1948 Could This Marriage Have Been Saved? A. Yes...had the wife taken heed of her husband's increasing coolness, known the secret of thorough feminine hygiene, kept herself lovely to love.... Source: New Liberty

Beware of one intimate neglect that can engulf you in marital grief. Too late when love has gone for a wife to plead that no one warned her of danger. Because a wise, considerate wife makes it her business to find out how to safeguard her daintiness in order to protect precious married love and happiness. One of the soundest ways for a wife to keep married love in bloom is to achieve dainty allure by practicing effective feminine hygiene such as regular vaginal douches with reliable…

Lysol's "She was a Jewel of a Wife...with just one flaw," 1930s. She was guilty of the "one neglect" that mars so manhy marriages. "Lysol" helps avoid this.

Fastidiously well-groomed, obviously sure of herself in every detail, is the woman whose habits of cleanliness include a knowledge of feminine hygiene. This intimate phase of every woman's toilette is too often neglected, through lack of knowledge of the daintiness, self-assurance and poise it brings. Every modern woman should know the facts about feminine hygiene. So much of beauty, charm and self-confidence is lost to the woman who remains ignorant of these facts so vital to her…

Mrs. J---- is pretty, poised and friendly. You'd think that both men and women would like to talk to her, like to have her around. But she's careless about "the one unforgivable fault." So she's seldom invited back a second time. Any woman may be the victim of "embarrassing odor" without realizing it. For a douche is ineffective unless it both cleanses and deodorizes...

71% of women surveyed have hidden a pad or tampon from view on their way to the bathroom. Source: Thinx / OnePoll, September 2017

Do you have time to hear about...my Diva cup [click on this image to find a recent post, which examines the cultural politics of menstruation in the United States]

No Entering During the Menstrual Periods

"Menstruation is the only blood that is not born from violence; yet it's the one that disgusts you the most" ~ @XicanaRebel

luxury tax: pay $75.00 Artist: myfeministawakening, on Tumblr