When I did billing for a fertility clinic, I knew they would not cover, but would always call to check benefits anyway for military patients. The response I always got was “children are not a medical necessity” and “we don’t cover that procedure because it does not have anything to do with improving quality of life…

This breaks my heart. Brave soldiers and their spouses are functionally denied the chance to have children because some fertilized embryos might be discarded in the process?

Yeah but they won’t pay for adoption either (another expensive process).

Except that’s not it. It’s congress. VA is part of the executive branch - it can only execute what congress tells it to.

Sorry I’m going to be in the minority and say that I agree that it isn’t right for them to interview the child and reject them based on behavior.

This. HOA’s are helicopter/NIMBY parents for adults.

I can only sleep on a bed made of whipped cream, so I get it.

I think you misunderstand me. First of all, I was not a single person doing some polling. We canvassed in droves and all the data was published for us to read after every canvas. Second, whether the responses were positive or not, talking to people and gathering public opinion was the intended goal. Even if every…

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This woman got caught breaking the law, and is now reporting that her citation is making her less likely to repeat the same violation. Good? I’m so confused by why she thinks she’s a victim and why this is newsworthy. STOP POURING POTABLE WATER ONTO THE MOTHERFUCKING GROUND.

It’s worth pointing out that this is basically a success story. A paper was published after peer review determined it to be credible (not correct - that is not the purpose of peer review), others attempted to replicate the described “experiment” and could not obtain similar results, papers will have been published…

Who’s the best coast now, suckers?!?!

This was published in Science. Again, this was not wishy washy unknown Social Text, this was Science. Can I just say, I love science, but I also lurrrve it when so called science is published in respected magazines and revealed as a fraud. I’ve had enough with the shit being thrown at the humanities for not being…

I have a chronic illness, had to go off meds to carry two children and am completely offended by this comment. Just because people have chronic illness in their family doesn’t mean they automatically shouldn’t be parents. That’s some health privilege right there. I’ve had lots of pain in my life and had major…

My brother has crohn’s, you don’t get to fucking judge peoples decision whether or not to have kids, It’s their choice not yours and there is also no guarantee the kids will even have it.

They likely didn’t fire her for the mary jane. They likely fired her because she has a chronic medical condition which drives up their insurance costs.

I wrote the story that gawker linked to on the powderroom as well. I have been commenting here and there but i find the whole thing very triggering b/c I grew up in a household where there was sexual abuse and hearing that stuff brings up really many feelings. I have a parent that totally always supported us and…

Unsolicited comment. Chantix is the devil’s pez. Nausea, nightmares, night sweats and a host of other unpleasantries. And it freakin’ saved my life. I was one of those “you’ll have to pry the cigarette out of my cold dead hand” die hards. Then the cardiologist told me that I would either die hard or lose a leg within…

She's so pretty, it actually hurts my eyes to take it in.