I’d be more inclined to worry about cleaning all the leaves from the trees out of the water, unless they are fake.

This entire administration is absolutely terrified of women. Can you imagine living in fear of 51% of the population?

Basically, I see the heart of conflict as being whether Charlie is a person with rights and freedoms or a possession of his parents. If he were simply their possession, then sure they could unhook him and do whatever they want - that’s ownership. But Charlie is an individual, distinct from his parents, so he has…

Crash course on medical ethics.

Charlie can still feel pain. The primary concern of his medical team was that he would undergo undue and unnecessary pain and suffering with the 1. transfer 2. flight 3. experimental treatment.

The baby is in pain and dragging it halfway around the world for a treatment that wasn’t intended to treat the issues it has is cruel.

Somehow, despite all that the 5-year-old had been through, a judge agreed to allow Naomi Hall supervised visitation with the child at the hospital.

Isn’t the whole point of chocolate that it tastes good? Why skip that part?

Perhaps you should read up on the case then. The hospital even sought an exemption to provide experimental gene therapy for Charlie after hearing about the US doctor’s trial and only stopped when the doctor explained the therapy doesn’t cross the blood brain barrier, meaning there is no chance of having any effects…

Of course they don’t want their baby to die, that why sometimes the medical team have to say “this is what is best, nothing more can be done.”. He is not their property. He is a baby with rights of his own. He has a right to live and die in dignity. The decision shouldn’t be theirs. I hope they can make their…

Oh, look everyone! A well known con artist and fame whore is piggybacking on a heart wrenching story for attention because it somewhat involves the country he’s pretending to run.

I read elsewhere that the experimental procedure the parents want (which has not even been tested in mice) would have zero chance to improve his brain function even in the most miraculous of best-case scenarios. This is Terry Schiavo all over again. The brain matter is irreparably damaged, full stop.

It must be hard to let go of loved ones, but this money could go to research or to help sick children the world over. I especially feel sorry for the mom as mitochondrial diseases are passed down through the mother.

What pisses me off most about President Dipshit inserting himself in this story is that per his proposed healthcare reform, the children suffering like that here at home would be left to die while their parents are saddled with a copious amount of medical debt.

He’s got his Terry Schiavo. All the credit of caring without any real attempt at assisting. How exploitive.

I hate these stories. They’re impossibly difficult and cruelly unfair. But I’m still of the mind that if my child’s organs cannot function without a machine doing the work for them, this is not life.

People who want to save money on contraception by making themselves unfuckable through sartorial idiocy?

It’s almost like, if unregulated, people running businesses do horrible things to save a buck.

The fatality comes with the 7:00am text the next day: “Sweetie, do they still call it the walk of shame?”

I don’t really trust people who are bad at ikea. When my renters moved I bought the furniture they didn’t want to schlep across the country, and I’ve had to tighten/re-assemble every single thing.