I made the choice to abort (twice) due to a risk to my mental health and I couldn’t face a life with my sanity gone. But since my physical health wasn’t at as much risk I get told it’s ‘not a good enough reason’ as mental health isn’t considered important enough.
You’ll die without an abortion? Well okay that’s an acceptable situation.
Your mental state will be destroyed without an abortion? Well you can still live while being insane so no, it’s not a valid reason.
The fact is that nobody should have to justify to another (unless of course they want to) why they got an abortion. It doesn’t actually matter if it resulted from contraception failure, from not using contraception, from a health issue, from a relationship issue, from money problems, from a lack of desire to have kids…etc. the list goes on. It just doesn’t matter that you may not fit the ‘standards’ of another person because it has FUCK ALL to do with them.
Your healthcare choices affect only you directly, therefore that’s the only person who has to agree.
Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.
God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.
Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,
the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…
The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…
And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?
TRANSLATION: “My best friend has come out to me and told me she is in a relationship with another woman, but let’s focus on how this is really all about me.”
MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS: Imagine being this angry at the very idea that people who are literally sleeping outside on the street are going to get some help, maybe a chair to sit in, and the means to heat some food. Just imagine.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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