You're so ignorant about protein. I get TOO MUCH protein most days and I'm a vegetarian who puts ZERO effort into their diet. The only thing that is difficult to get as a vegetarian is iron. I hate the, "Must be hard to get your protein!" comments. Just eat your meat and stop spreading false info. Soy, green beans,…

I also feel compelled to point out that this women is already dead, should be laid to rest and isn't because the state has decided to play dictator and mad scientist and see how long it can force her body to pretend it's alive for the sake of it's inhuman agenda. Women are NOT biological vending machines, we're human…

14 weeks is not viable. At 25 weeks gestation, there's about a 50% chance the baby will live, if delivered early. There's about a 50% chance said surviving infant will have more-or-less normal neurological development.

on the subject or organ donation - my first thought was what if her organs could have saved countless other people but now will be useless because they are keeping her on the machines so long?

It's not a baby, and it's not viable. It's a 14 week gestation fetus. It is NOT VIABLE. That word has a meaning. It means capable of living outside the uterus. This fetus is NOT viable, that's precisely why they are artificially animating a corpse to incubate it. You just think on that for a minute. I'm sure you…

There's no "we". The choice was this woman's to make, and Texas ignored it, and her husband's/the father's to make, and Texas ignored it. This is not your body, spouse, family, fetus, or money.

Well, that's probably why she asked for quinoa, which has 24 grams of protein compared to chicken's 35 grams. For an average woman who exercises moderately, she would only need about 46 grams of protein.

THANK YOU!!! Ughhhh this thread must be promoted. 'Rabbit food'??? Are you effing kidding me?? Oh yeah, because eating healthy while performing for thousands for people is SO AWFUL. Should we go back to the days when artists just snorted cocaine and screwed hookers, TMZ? Maybe a burger here and there?

I know! It's, like, sooooo, like, weird that different situations are different.

It's just contingent on the wishes of the family, isn't it? In the case of the girl, her family wants her to remain on life support and is ostensibly willing to shoulder the costs. In this case, the family wants her off life support, because they knew her wishes prior to her death.

I think it's pretty clear that this…

The part I don't understand: if you subscribe to the notion that abortions equal interfering with God's plan for life how is keeping a woman alive not interfering? "God" allowed this woman to suffer an embolism while pregnant. Did His "plan" really involve her being on life support to sustain the fetus for 26 weeks?

Urg, TMZ. Pet peeve of mine: When people refer to healthy/veggie meals as "rabbit food". I actually think Katy Perry's backstage demands sound pretty reasonable - if I was a popstar, the one thing I'd demand on my tour rider is tons of healthy (plus ideally organic, GMO-free, local) veggie food (no fresh-cut orchids,…

Well as a Catholic, I am THRILLED that I can go into work and decline to do paperwork, since that is apparently now against my religion.

This is the first article I've read on the matter that took the trouble to spell out the precise nature of the Little Sister's complaint, in order to point out exactly where the legal absurdity of it lie. Thank you for this. It's easy to snark about the subject; what you've done is informative reporting.

I didn't know that it was our personal obligation to criticize how a person chooses to disperse their own money. Good to know. I can't stand reading those kinds of comments. "He could have done this" or "He should have done that." Who are you and what do you do? You don't know what he has given away in the past or…

Its better than nothing, which I would estimate 98% of us (including me) did today.

The worst thing about anti-vax is this: for every disease that this woman survived (thank goodness), she passed it to many other people including people with suppressed immune systems (AIDS, cancer), infants too young for vaccination, and elders whose vaccines have worn off.

Being a mummy doesn't make you a scientist. (Nor does it make you a teacher or lawyer or chef or judge or particle accelerator support technician, no matter WHAT the adorable Facebook chain post says.)