"breast milk might not be all that nutritional"

I read this entire thread thinking that you people were talking about a movie called "Fucking Anal." I was like, really? Even in Scandinavia, that can be a movie title? Damn, Europeans really *are* easygoing about sex in movies!

Me too! My husband and I are celebrating our ten-year anniversary with a trip to London in May—any advice is much appreciated! Also, any recs for hotels in the 100-pound range that have toilets in the room and no cockroaches?

I was just scrolling down to see if I could be the first person to say that! You beat me to it, but that's okay—both Frances Perkins and Baby deserve the excellent shout-out!

Norovirus is going around the Southeast—the hospitals in my area have seen hundreds of cases. Could it be that?

Spaghetti was my first thought! I don't think I know anyone who really, really just doesn't like spaghetti.

Yikes. That sounds like a very hard thing to add to an already difficult life. If she is firm in her decision, then all you can really do is be supportive and try not to make it any harder for her. I hope she does well and can learn to be a good parent.

I guess it's up to the store—our Walmart will not let the girls set up the booth inside the store, or even under the overhang at the entrance, so they've been sitting out in the rain at the edge of the parking lot.

Signed! Thank you—I love the White House petitions. I've signed about twenty of them, and I always get one of those automated responses, so whether they do any good or not, at least I know how the Administration feels about the issue.

I actually thought it was an old picture of Kim Basinger before I read the headline.

Edited because I totally mis-read the article.

Don't forget Claire Danes and Julia Stiles! And Natalie Portman and Keira Knightly. And Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Macguire. [blogs.amctv.com] has a pretty hilarious collection of actors who are totally interchangeable.

Tracie, don't bother pumping and dumping, unless you happen to be engorged and sore. There's no point. Alcohol moves out of your breastmilk exactly as it moves out of your bloodstream—your alcohol-in-milk level is the same as your blood alcohol levels, and it processes out at the same rate. So when your BAL is back…

Somehow, he really is the most enraging of all of them, and I'm sure he's proud about that. I live less than five minutes from the local military base, and I'm allowed to use their lovely, large, uncrowded gym for free, and I quit going because they play Rush Limbaugh on the radio and Fox News on the tvs, and I…

That would be HILARIOUS. I can totally see it: The outside of the card has the ultrasound photo and the caption "Here is my fetus!" and inside the card, it says, "Please kill it!" I would die laughing.

Choosing not to have an abortion yourself, but believing that "every woman has their own reasons" and should get to decide for themselves what they do means you are pro-choice. That's the exact definition of being pro-choice. If you've been told your whole life that pro-choice people are evil or murderers or whatever,…

Erin, I have been a Jezzie since way back in the very beginning, and this is probably the best article I have ever read on Jezebel. Seriously. Congratulations and good work.

@Perfectionate: I assume that's an outgrowth of EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which was enacted in 1986. In the '80s, insurance companies that owned hospitals were allowed to refuse care to anyone who didn't have their insurance or didn't have cash. Lots and lots of people died after…

It was the hospital that refused to let the doctor treat the patient, not the doctor refusing to give treatment. And as the article noted, if a doctor "disregarded Texas' state-imposed standards...he risks losing his medical license, being charged with a crime, or having his facility's surgery license revoked. In…

I know two women who got pregnant after their husbands had vasectomies. Oops! There's a reason they tell you wait three full months and to have two sperm samples analyzed before having unprotected sex!