Two early miscarriages and I’m at 27 weeks now, with everything looking great. That third attempt was scary (who wants to go through this again), and the first trimester of pregnancy was downright harrowing (I even spotted a couple of times), but it’s been great ever since. Miscarriage is incredibly common, just the…

Most gun owners aren’t gun nuts, ironically.

Why is it that when terrible things happen to women — like having her body held down while someone inserts his penis into against her will — it’s totally NBD, but when a guy has something capricious happen to him it’s THIS WILL NOT STAND!

I would consider it a much worse outcome if my son grew up to hurt women than if some unfair shit happened to him from time to time.

Right! Totally misread that. Thanks!

Wait, their teen pregnancy rate is HIGHER than their adult pregnancy rate??? Holy crap.

Well, there’s no such thing as just signing away parental responsibilities, although a shocking number of people think there are.

Exactly, that’s why this is an important precedent. Think of how many people walk away from their partners during pregnancy or right after birth. Remove a biological tie and I bet that number goes up for both sexes.

No, courts don’t just allow a child to have one parent when there were two before. A child can be adopted by a second parent, but not just abandoned.

Not even. This would be more like a man or woman divorcing a wife pregnant with a sperm donor, after pursuing that pregnancy together.

A legal father is a legal father, irrespective of biological relation. If you find out later that your legal child is not your biological child, you are still responsible. In some instances, you don’t even need to sign the birth certificate, if you are married to the mother, you are presumed to be the legal father.

And sometimes a psychopath is just a psychopath. No one is arguing that she suffered from delusions.

I’ve given to them and I know my mom and her friends REALLY give to them. (I’ve given more to PP.)

Agreed. I think I will I be doing a much wider investigation of lobbying/organizing organizations the next time it’s time to make a donation. At least with PP, you know it’s going to health care services. But NARAL is all about the political action.

What was great about this segment, was that it was actually meant to rev people up to take action and not just watch politely. She totally came down on NARAL’s toothlessness.

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Now that we have the second cat, the bigger issue is that they want to hang out with us... even when we’re sleeping and they’re in the mood to wrestle with each other. We usually have to kick them out of bed a couple times a night.

Neither of my Siamese can abide a closed door. One is sick and in isolation, and the other refuses to eat unless she gets let out for meals. One does the door knob thing, the other just cries. The older cat came with my husband and when we were dating I was rather shocked to be walked in on because the cat could…

Seriously. My still-living grandmother was born before women could vote. My equally Jewish grandfather never drew a disenfranchised breath.

My still living grandmother was born before women had the right to vote, let alone run for office. She needed her husband’s permission to open a bank account. My mother had professors tell her that even though she performed best in class, she couldn’t get the best grade because it would discourage her male classmates.…