Just when you thought we'd escaped the event horizon of this prolife zine, it resurfaces, ready once more to be our emotional punching bag. Welcome to 2023, "A Young Gay Femme Leftist Hands You a Prolife Zine." We hope we can be done with you by the end of the year, but we're still less than 20% thru your length so neither Joel nor Naomi are holding their breath. (for those just tuning in, we're discussing anti-abortion arguments and using one of the weirdest ant-abortion pamphlets we've ever seen as a template to work thru.)

We return to discuss the state of abortion in the US and then dive right in, addressing the claims that terminations for the safety of the mother will always be allowed (lie), that many doctors think having a baby is safer than having any abortion (lie), that the two common abortion pills are actually deadly for one's health (lie), and that countries with illegal abortions don't have more maternal deaths than countries with legal abortions (really hard to prove but the context isn't great for their argument). Joel also finally figured out who the author is and what groups she works with, which will not win him any journalism awards but does provide an interesting perspective on the sources she's using. 

This year it looks like our monthly Patreon donations will be going towards trans organizations. This month we made a donation to activist Erin Reed's substack, which is doing an amazing job tracking and drawing attention to trans legislation. 

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