Shit, Faith, I'm so sorry your mother is spreading that kind of lunacy. Your sister deserves to know the truth about everything regarding her reproductive rights. It isn't even just about convincing her it is ok for her to get an abortion, a lot of pro-choice people wouldn't make that decision for themselves, but just…

As someone with a mental disability I've been a victim of people who expect me to just know how they want me to behave. Someone kept saying something was wrong with me, I shouldn't behave a certain way, but never told me how I was behaving wrong. I was just supposed to know. Many people with mental disabilities don't…

ERs are the worst; I went in November for chest pains and was 16 weeks. With my insurance an ER visit should only cost $200. I paid my bill. A few weeks ago, I got a bill for another 1,600 because apparently the doctor that saw me for 10 minutes was a doctor from a practice that was out of my network, even through the…

This. SO MUCH THIS. I got some kind of dehydrating illness the week of Sandy and my mom dragged my 25 year old butt to the ER (I went kicking and screaming and reminded her that I was only home at her house on LI to help her out and I just wanted to go home to my place w electricity in the city). We signed in and I…

$8K circumcision?!?!?!?!?! Did they dip the foreskin in gold and lock it away in a vault to appreciate in time to provide a handsome college tuition when he turns 18?!

The GOP do not let facts get in the way of their worldview. Facts have a well known liberal bias.

If Kimmy K is black by injection, does that mean my husband is black by immersion? (I assume I'm not white by injection. )

My experience with the Church was similar.

Hmm sounds right in line with the "my abortion is the only moral abortion" crap.

A lot of these stories can happen in the first place because young women are so used to having abortion access and freedom that they can campaign about abortion but then expect to just nip off to a clinic if they need it for their wayyy more moral abortion. The idea that there just wouldn't be any abortion for…

It's quite a central tenet to social conservatism to not have any empathy (fiscal conservatism, too, come to think of it). Actively dismissing FACTS for the sake of preserving a worldview in which you are unequivocally superior because of your own "merits."

I can't speak for all humans here, but in America, we have this tendency to pull the ladder up after we climb into the clubhouse, because, you know, fuck those other guys.

Although they are only "ok'd" for under 7 weeks, medical abortions are routinely used for pregnancies up to 9 weeks. Planned Parenthood will do them up to 10 weeks from your last period. In order to get the pills, you have to have an ultrasound, so they can verify how far along the pregnancy is, and also verify that…

Arizona:

HILARIOUS. If men got pregnant this pill would be available at the corner 7-11 and come with a bonus scratch off card. They'd grind it and put it in shakes at McDonalds. Fuck Arizona.

How would these "unannounced inspections" go? "WHORES! BRING OUT YOUR WHORES!"

"I'm not a whore!"

I'd love to see Arizona challenge all off-label uses of medicines. Will they go after the 50%+ of cancer patients who currently take medication off-label? Or just the women who are seeking LEGAL services from licensed medical providers? Be consistent with your ridiculous policies. (Actually don't—- that will make it…

Actually, depending on the period you're talking about, it was waaaaaaaay safer to give birth at home with a midwife than in a hospital with a doctor for two main reasons: 1) most (male) doctors did not have sufficient training in obstetrics and 2) unaware of how disease spread, many women and babies died of…

You do realize that American women are more likely to die in childbirth than other industrialized nations.

You knew the risks when you hit the "buy" icon. You knew if you proceeded willy nilly you might end up with a pair of crocs. You knew that online shopping results in purchases if you don't take precautions, so why should we have to deal with the outcome of your online promiscuity? No, you knew the risks and chose to…