I just want to say I’m so sorry you went through this. Childbirth is naturally a roller coaster of emotion, it doesn’t help to have shit ass medical professionals. I had a similar situation(although it did not involve being touched. Ugh I can’t imagine.)during my labor. I was induced at 38 weeks because of low amniotic…

For me at least, I was hurting and vulnerable and not at all myself during labor and I absolutely didn’t stand up for myself the way I would have normally. I can’t do it again, because of the PTSD, but if I could have a do-over I would want a doula. I wish I’d had someone who could tell the nurse exactly where to…

I’m still so mad about this. I had a nurse who kept putting her hand on my perineum to “stretch” it during contractions. I kept asking her to stop. She said she “had” to do it, but it was hurting and causing me to recoil away from her, which was really not helpful for pushing. I’m still so mad that I didn’t make a…

I love this. Great story. 

“No, baby I slipped, I swear I slipped! BABY! Baby... you’re so beautiful when you’re crying.”

So, if I’m reading this correctly his alibi is that he was cheating on her?

You ought to reconsider who you believe. Crimes against women are an epidemic and all studies show women underreport or fail to report crime at all, often for fear of not being believed. Check your misogyny. 

His lawyers also claim that he did not throw her down the stairs—merely, he picked her up, tried to carry her out of the house , but slipped before reaching the stairs and caught her in his arms.

Generally, I tend to believe the guy when it comes to these tales

How about men with power and money - stop going after women half your age and then complain when people point out a power imbalance or call you a fucking creep. 

None for me; I’d already been thoroughly desensitized by Unsolved Mysteries.  

It’s the men who find the “being damaged” part so alluring. God knows I heard that a lot in my early 20s, and it took me a while to realize how goddamn gross that is.

This article filled me with revulsion but it did prompt me to do some quick wiki research about the Marshall Islands. It’s fascinating:

I have long believed that AZ is the meanest state in the nation. Even our mormons are pure evil. He’s probably one of the creeps that sits alone with teens asking about their sexual urges (a real thing that happens).

Sort of like the people who call buying from a breeder “rescuing from a puppy mill”

Now we know why conservatives don’t want to legalize abortion - it would cut into their human trafficking gigs.

Can we as a culture please become much more skeptical of religious folks’ promotion of adoption as a “mission”? There are many cases of churches promoting adoption to such an extent that orphanages in whichever country that church as selected to “save” kids from begin adopting out children with living parents under…

1000% yes. I’m sure he thought that the Medicaid fraud was “that money being put to good use for once,” as well.

Me, reading the headline: I’ll bet this dick thought he was doing a service, putting babies in good Christian homes.

These are the same people who stand outside abortion clinics and shout about the “undeniable bond between mother and baby!” “you will live with a lifetime of regret!!”... unless you want to sell babies for profit. Looks like we now know ANOTHER reason repubs want to keep women pregnant. They want to sell that baby for…