I’ve never had an abortion, so this might not be the case for this, but a lot of NHS waiting issues are very regionally specific.

The largest abortion provider by a mile in UK is NHS, by leaving out that fact it does paint the story in a different light. Most Abortions in UK are carried out under the NHS in hospitals for free. So with Marie Stopes being closed it will mainly affect people in Northern Ireland, but there are other clinics in UK.…

Abortion is not a hot topic in the UK. We’re not a particularly religious country and while abortion does occasionally come up in policy conversation, it's normally from a medical perspective rather than a moral one. There was some talk about requiring women to go for counselling before one a few years ago but that…

They’re a private organization who were found lacking probably due to less oversight than government run clinics. They just need to up their quality care and staffers if they want to continue to operate.

Or you go to any NHS provider and still get an appropriate and safe abortion for free. This is one private provider being temporarily shut down until they improve their services and safeguards, it’s not an assault on abortion rights or body autonomy.

I don’t think that is the issue here. NHS appears to be doing everything they can to make sure women can still access abortion services.

The CQC’s entire job is to make sure medical services offered anywhere are up to a certain standard. Marie Stopes’ services failed the inspection. It’s pretty straightforward and unless you already have a clinic appointment booked not a big deal.

Absolutely none of the same stuff. Abortions are available on the NHS for free (as in $0) to any woman who wants one and is less than 25 weeks along. You see a handful of placard-wielding whackadoodles outside the Stopes clinics (which are privately run) but the average abortion will take place at a normal doctors…

It’s worth pointing out that Marie Stopes is the UK’s private abortion provider. English women can still get abortions anywhere, anytime for free on the NHS as long as they don’t mind having less flexibility in appointment times.

France banned all religious headgear (hijabs, Kufis, even yarmulkes so as not to single out Muslims) in public schools a while back. They’re pretty equal opportunity militant secularist over there.

Ummm, no. Amy stuck up for this absolute piece of shit for 3 full years. He’s been attacking women and feminists on Twitter and their blogs since 2013 (seriously, entire articles are out there on what an unhinged psycho this asshole is). He’s verbally violent and has admitted to hitting his ex-girlfriend. Add that to…

Yeah, anybody can block anybody on Twitter. If the first I hear of you as a person is you up in my @s yelling at me about something (at the same time that THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE ARE ALSO YELLING AT ME IN MY @S) I would feel no compunction blocking you, and fuck anyone who tells me I am obligated to patiently let…

Fair. But Sady is out of her fucking mind, in general.

The burden of proof is put upon the victim and there’s often a bias toward innocence,

and yet, my wife roams freely.

You can get hyper analytical, but it seems pretty clear that Bill has mistreated women for a long time and Hillary has done her best to be part of the machine that keeps him clean enough (and in the process rolling over those women) that they can accomplish their political goals in spite of his behavior.

Just said this above, but the “rationale” is that the U.S. insisted on the rule back when the sport was dominated by eastern Europeans, because without it there would have been multiple Olympics where basically no American gymnasts qualified for the all around or the event finals.

That “bs rule” was enacted because the U.S. insisted on it back when the Eastern European countries had teams that blew everyone else out the water.

The same banal commentary would have been made if it was a man who medaled and then got engaged.

Come on, Rachel. At the end of the day, whether people like it or not, most societies still consider marriage, children, etc, as the things you’re supposed to say are the most important in your life.