Ehh....includes the word change and is a grid of black and white photos is ripping off the cover? That’s a stretch. It’s not exactly a new or unique idea. They are vaguely similar but the typeface and color of the titles are different, the positioning of the photos is different and there is a greater variety in the…

Out of the 15 listed, there are 9 women tied to Great Britain or the Commonwealth, 5 American women and 1 Swedish? Not sure where the misstep is?

Four are American, four are British, one is Irish, one is Sudanese/Australian, one is Somali (UK resident), one is Mexican/American, one is Nigerian, one is a New Zealander, and one is Swedish. That’s pretty diverse for an English-speaking publication, especially when you consider the overall population of the US…

Isn’t surrogacy more expensive than adoption?

Kavanaugh may be plenty intelligent; being a misogynist or rapist, having a shitty moral compass, or otherwise being a bad person is not dispositive of being smart. In an organization full of ideological ‘yes men/women’, it’s not enough to simply tow the part line. Hating women and racial minorities, desiring a white…

Welcome to the inevitable backlash of deifying Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This surprises a lot of people, but there’s a measured, medium place between stanning for RBG as if she can do no wrong, and shitting all over her for having been friends with Scalia/saying Kavenaugh is okay/being an old white woman.

Considering the Southern Baptist Convention was publicly *in favor* of abortion rights..

Do you know any foster parents? I do. Foster care isn’t a “job” in any kind of traditional or modern sense, and foster care payments are not payment for services rendered. It’s essentially volunteering to care for a child while having their expenses covered (in part). But regardless of how someone sees it, fostering…

Mist of the ingredients in the high-end skin care can be replicated at drug store prices. The makeup is not ridiculously expense high-end stuff like Guerlain or Yves St Laurent.

I think face wash is pretty necessary since you need to wash the sunscreen off at the end of the day.

Yay! I miss Millihelen.

She’s not aging badly, just average.

I think that was the drugs on Steven’s part.

I could understand if it made her look 10 years younger but it doesn’t. Unpopular opinion: Most of that stuff is useless.

I think its interesting how people are playing it off, because the value of what he stole isnt valued that much. Imagine having someone come to your house and start stealing fuel from a tank you had in the back for fueling your cars, tractors or if someone started syphoning gas from your car.

We already have way too many people on this planet. Instead of paying a person to bring another human into the world, why not pay a person to help you to find and adopt one of the people that are already here and waiting for a parent.

Ah the smell of bait from the self-righteous. It is when you get paid to do it for a stranger. If you volunteer for family or friends that’s your problem, but even that can be exploitation when there’s moral coercion etc. involved. Women are not breed cattle, no matter how much you want a baby.  

What if the surrogate feels she can no longer continue with the pregnancy? Should she be contractually bound to do so? ‘When you sign up for this’ is really missing what the experience of pregnancy and birth is.

Women can die due to complications during pregnancy or birth or be left with birth injuries. Choice should always remain with the woman putting her body and life at risk, and that includes the right to end the pregnancy.

Not all fostering is selfless. While I know several people who have done fostering because they are kind people who want to help kids, I also have friends who have been through the foster system and were essentially a paycheck vehicle for the people fostering them. I also know it’s often a brutal process that comes…