Month: January 2013

“Even when a person is dead, bodily autonomy trumps right to life. After all, they still need…”

“Even when a person is dead, bodily autonomy trumps right to life. After all, they still need permission to harvest organs from a corpse to save other lives. I just think that women should at least have the same right to bodily autonomy as a corpse.”

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A quote I just read in relation to abortion. Very well put. 

“Body Autonomy” or “Bodily integrity” is self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. You can’t be forced to give blood, bone marrow, or any part of you to another. You can’t even have them taken from you after you die without permission. The fact that you can save a life is irrelevant, nobody can forcefully take something from you.

Yet, there are people out there who believe 50% of the population *must* give up their body for 9 months, even if there’s risk of it killing them. 

This is my new favourite “anti-choice folk are ignorant, sexist, idiots” argument. 

(via justcarl)

Spiderprincess …a Hallowe’een costume…



Spiderprincess
…a Hallowe'een costume juxtaposition….

Miranda
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in’t!

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest

I’ve always loved this photo. One of my worst Hallowe'ens as a child was the time it was so cold I had to wear my winter coat and cover up my princess costume. Perhaps that’s why I love this photo of my beautiful niece wearing her princess costume as she happily squashed her princess coiffure to try out the Spiderman costume head I’d made for my son.

Check out Lothaurien’s Lore where I’m blogging about the costumes I’ve made over the years.